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Major mobile alliance go for GTK+

Submitted by Uraeus on Fri, 2007-01-26 04:32. GTK
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Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone recently announced the LiMo Alliance which aims to provide its members with a shared Linux platform for mobile phones. Not many details are known yet, but one of the things mentioned in their Architecture Abstract is that this new mobile platform will be using GTK+ for its GUI. So along with Nokia's Maemo platform and the recently announced OpenMoko platform things are looking very good for GTK+ in the mobile space.

A Big Deal, Indeed...

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Sun, 2007-02-04 11:12.

Motorola and Samsung are two of the top five handset manufacturers. NEC and Panasonic are the top manufacturers in Japan, arguably the most advanced cell phone market on the planet. NTT DoCoMo is the largest Japanese carrier, Vodaphone is one of the largest European carriers. In 2006, one billion handsets were sold: that could be an awful lot of GTK, and associated GNOME technologies out there.

The LiMo Foundation hasn't been completely clear on how open it is. But other organizations, such as the Linux Phone Standards Forum and (I believe) the CE Linux Forum, have also effectively endorsed GTK, etc., for use on mobile and consumer devices.

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