LiMo Foundation could be close to bearing fruit for Samsung, Vodafone in a big way
The LiMo Foundation's platform is far from vaporware -- countless Japanese domestic market handsets run it in one form or another, which makes sense considering that NTT DoCoMo, NEC, and Panasonic are all counted among its founding members -- but outside the land of the rising sun, LiMo's had very little end-user impact even as it's collected big-name members and released several rounds of specs and whitepapers over the last year and a half. To a certain extent, that's by design; unlike Android, LiMo is as much about creating synergies for manufacturers and carriers as it is about giving subscribers flashy user interfaces, but a new Samsung for Vodafone leaked on Boy Genius Report today suggests that we might be getting flashy UIs nonetheless. We don't know what this phone will ultimately be called, but it doesn't take more than a couple glances to pick up on the fact that it's relatively high-end, equipped with an 8 megapixel cam and full AMOLED touhscreen. The social-oriented interface looks seriously tricked out with faces (hopefully of people the user knows) moving in and out in three dimensions -- usability is an open question, but at least it's pretty to stare at, which is really what a good phone's all about anyway, right? Word on the street is that this might be announced at a London event on the 24th, but here's our question: where's Verizon in all this?
























Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Plexus @ Sep 10th 2009 8:34PM
Hey, what's that phone in the pic?
The OmniaHD in metallic garb? Or maybe some new Samsung cool project?
With the right sort of smartphone spec's 'n features I guess I would like that thing.
Dug @ Sep 11th 2009 4:05AM
Hey @plexus what kind of features n specs are you thinking (a top-ten maybe?)
Cheers,
Dug
Simone Cicero @ Sep 16th 2009 10:03AM
It's hard to see any adoption of Limo on other players than Vodafone that invested on the platform so much in the past.
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