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

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which develops and maintains the

Tizen Tizen () is a Linux-based mobile operating system backed by the Linux Foundation, mainly developed and used primarily by Samsung Electronics. The project was originally conceived as an HTML5-based platform for mobile devices to succeed MeeGo. Sa ...

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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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, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications,

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, and

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. The consortium's work resulted in the

LiMo Platform Tizen () is a Linux-based mobile operating system backed by the Linux Foundation, mainly developed and used primarily by Samsung Electronics. The project was originally conceived as an HTML5-based platform for mobile devices to succeed MeeGo. S ...

—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

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that MeeGo will be totally replaced by the

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 HTML5 and other web standards. 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