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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
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Mobile Linux lot publish first specs…
Mobile open source operating system booster the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum has published specifications forming part of LiPS Release 1.0, whose complete delivery is planned by the end of 2007. In addition LiPS unveiled a roadmap of additional specification areas to be developed through 2008. These LiPS Release 1.0 specifications documents represent the first public deliverables from working group activities since LiPS’ founding, and are intended to help to improve interoperability across the Linux-based mobile telephony ecosystem – from software stack suppliers to mobile device OEMs to regional and global wireless operators.
“This first set of specifications represents real-world requirements as well as hard work on the part of key mobile ecosystem participants,” notes Haila Wang, president of the LiPS Forum. “Ongoing elaboration and adoption of the LiPS standards specifications will sustain the impressive growth of mobile Linux deployment, enhancing interoperability among devices and software, and streamlining time-to-market and rollout for Linux-based devices and services.”
“LiPS belongs to a new class of industry forums whose standards development model is closer to open source principles, i.e. standardisation through public specifications and reference code implementations, rather than just paper-based,” adds Andreas Constantinou, senior analyst with VisionMobile and author of a forthcoming strategic report on mobile open source. “LiPS release 1.0 will be important in helping Linux implementations converge, especially around telephony, PIM and UI services, where fragmentation is stalling otherwise unanimous manufacturer momentum behind mobile Linux.”
According to a recent report from Berg Insight Linux is already the second largest Smartphone OS, second to Symbian in a market forecast to hit 133mn units this year.
John Williamson
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