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 operating system primarily developed by Samsung Electronics and supported by the Linux Foundation. The project was originally conceived as an HTML5-based platform for mobile devices to succeed MeeGo. It was backed by o ...

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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—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

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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

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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
Linux organizations Mobile Linux Organizations established in 2007 {{Mobile-tech-stub

Members

Phones

LiMo & Tizen

See also

References

External links