BARCELONA, Spain, February 11 /PRNewswire/ --

- Broad SDK Strategy Builds on Recent Publication of APIs to Set Out 
Developer Roadmap

Mobile World Congress -- LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of mobile 
leaders delivering an open handset platform for the whole mobile industry, 
today announced the roll out of a comprehensive Software Development Kit 
(SDK) strategy encompassing Native, Java and Webkit SDKs.

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"Announcing a further strong wave of new LiMo members and 18 initial LiMo
handsets from 7 vendors at Mobile World Congress demonstrates that LiMo has
attracted wide industry engagement since its launch one year ago," said
Morgan Gillis, executive director of LiMo Foundation. "With the lineup of
prestigious mobile industry leaders and innovators that now stands behind the
platform, LiMo is positioned at the heart of an open mobile ecosystem that
will connect developers with mobile consumers across all markets. LiMo's open
approach and broad SDK strategy recognizes the diverse strengths and talents
of existing open developer communities - empowering a diverse set of
developers to innovate successfully within the mobile communications
marketplace."

LiMo's SDK suite will roll out from H2 2008 and provide common
Eclipse-based tooling environments for supporting widespread development of
software for LiMo handsets coming to market from Q4 2008. It will enable
mobile software suppliers to concentrate on developing their own value-added
technologies, while enabling developers to explore and work with advanced
programming models within an open-source environment. The SDK suite is being
readied by LiMo board members, including ACCESS CO. LTD, Aplix Corporation,
Azingo, Motorola and Wind River, and further strategic SDK partners will be
announced in the near future.

"The APIs for the first release of the LiMo Platform(TM) were recently
made available to all mobile developers, and the R1 LiMo Platform itself is
scheduled to be completed in March 2008," commented Hankil Yoon, vice
president of Linux Platform and Devices at Samsung and chairperson of LiMo's
Architecture Council, who is leading the SDK initiative. "Today's
announcement is yet another positive step for the LiMo Foundation and the
entire mobile community as our SDK strategy will attract significant
developer engagement and exposure to the LiMo Platform, thereby stimulating a
new wave of innovation in mobile applications, services and next-generation
user experiences."

"ACCESS has accumulated extensive experience in the provision of SDKs and
technical support for large developer communities," said Toru Arakawa,
president and chief executive officer of ACCESS. "We have recently joined the
Board of LiMo Foundation because we can see rapid industry wide take up of
the LiMo Platform and we intend to make strategic contributions that will
benefit the whole LiMo ecosystem-starting with a comprehensive Native SDK."

"Aplix is very excited by the progress LiMo Foundation has made," said
John Rizzo, vice president, Technology Strategy of Aplix Corporation.
"Aplix's goals are to meet the full needs of Java ECO system and Java runtime
environments that are required by commercial LiMo products."

"The LiMo Foundation selected Azingo to provide advanced mobile Linux
technologies to power its Common Integration Environment (CIE) and now we're
pleased to be extending these technologies to power LiMo's SDK," said Mahesh
Veerina, CEO of Azingo. "Azingo Mobile is an innovative and comprehensive
mobile platform based on LiMo's software that is achieving broad industry
support. We will leverage our innovations to help LiMo provide an SDK that
can help developers create new applications for web 2.0, music, video, vivid
graphics and more."

"As a founding member of the LiMo Foundation and a leader in Linux-based
mobile devices, Motorola is proud to contribute our technical knowledge in
platform and tool creation to support the development of these SDKs-including
driving the requirements behind the WebKit SDK," said Christy Wyatt, Vice
President, Software Platforms & Ecosystem, Motorola.

"Wind River is pleased that LiMo Foundation will extend the Common
Integration Environment (CIE) based on Wind River's commercial Linux
technology to enable LiMo's SDK suite for application developers," said Jason
Whitmire, general manager of mobile solutions at Wind River. "LiMo's CIE
provides the foundation for integrating and managing platform software
contributions, and Wind River will work with LiMo Core Members to provide
additional tools to facilitate integration and management of application code
contributions from OEMs, ISVs and the open source community to support LiMo's
rapidly evolving mobile phone stack and ecosystem."

Launched in January 2007, LiMo Foundation is open to all vendors and
service providers in the mobile communications marketplace, including device
manufacturers, operators, chipset manufacturers, independent software
vendors, integrators and third-party developers. For more information on the
LiMo Foundation and its guiding principles and bylaws, please visit
www.limofoundation.org.

LiMo's technology will be showcased in Booth 8b135, Hall 8 at Mobile
World Congress, February 11-14 in Barcelona.

About LiMo Foundation

LiMo Foundation is a dedicated consortium of mobile industry leaders
working together within an open and transparent governance model-with shared
leadership and shared decision making-to deliver an open and globally
consistent handset software platform based upon Mobile Linux for use by the
whole mobile industry. A full description of LiMo, including its vision,
goals, charter and membership information, can be found at
www.limofoundation.org.

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