The Tizen Association, formerly the LiMo Foundation (short for Linux Mobile), is a

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consortium which develops and maintains the Tizen

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. Tizen is a

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-based operating system for

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s and other mobile devices. The founding members were

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NEC is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. The company was known as the Nippon Electric Company, Limited, before rebranding in 1983 as NEC. It provides IT and network soluti ...

, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications,

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, and

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. The consortium's work resulted in the LiMo Platform—which was integrated into mobile phone products from NEC, Panasonic and Samsung—and later became the Tizen platform.

Members

Members of the Tizen Association are:

Phones

Phones using LiMo include:

LiMo & Tizen

In the end of September 2011 it was announced by the Linux Foundation that

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will be totally replaced by the Tizen mobile operating system project during 2012. Tizen will be a new free and open source Linux-based operating-system which itself will not be released until the first quarter of 2012. Intel and

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, in collaboration with the LiMo Foundation and assisting MeeGo developers, have been pointed out to lead the development of this new software platform, using third-party developer frameworks that will primarily be built on the

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and other

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. As of October 2012, the LiMo website traffic is redirected to tizen.org.

References

* https://archive.today/20130127214730/http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8711151732.html

External links

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Coming Battle Over Open Source Phones
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Members

Phones

LiMo & Tizen

See also

References

External links