The Linux Phone Standards Forum was established to promote Linux as a viable option for mobile phones. The forum aimed to create a common standard for Linux-based mobile phones.
The forum was formed in 2007 by several major players in the industry, including Samsung, Motorola, and LG. This collaboration was a significant step towards creating a unified Linux standard for mobile phones.
The forum's primary goal was to create a set of specifications for Linux-based mobile phones, ensuring compatibility and interoperability between different devices. By doing so, the forum aimed to make Linux a more attractive option for mobile phone manufacturers and users alike.
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Linux Phone Standards Forum
The Linux Phone Standards Forum, also known as LiPS, is a group of companies working together to create standards for Linux-based mobile phones.
Its founding members include PalmSource, FSM Labs, MIZI Research, ARM Holdings, MontaVista, Huawei, Jaluna, Open Plug, Cellon, and Esmertec.
The group aims to create a standard application programming interface (API) for Linux on mobile phones, so that applications can run on any device without requiring customization.
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This will help avoid fragmentation and ensure interoperability of technologies from different vendors.
A certification process will be needed to ensure that each mobile phone maker's version of Linux conforms to the API.
The LiPS Forum will also provide documentation and other aids to help developers building applications on top of the standardized Linux base.
The first official set of specifications for Linux on mobile phones is due by the second half of 2006.
The LiPS Forum is taking a pragmatic approach to defining standards, incorporating existing work wherever possible.
This may involve collaboration with other efforts at standardizing Linux for mobile phones, such as the Open Source Development Lab and the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum.
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Mobile Linux Specifications
The Linux Phone Standards Forum (LiPS) is working to create a standard application programming interface (API) for Linux on mobile phones, so that applications can run on any device without requiring customization.
This API will be a crucial step in avoiding fragmentation and ensuring interoperability of technologies from different vendors. LiPS has already published its first application programming interface (API) set in June, with the full Lips specifications released by the end of the year.
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The Lips Release 1.0 specifications include the Lips reference model, telephony, messaging, calendaring and scheduling, presence, the user interface service, address book and voice call enabler APIs. This will allow developers to create applications that will work on all phones that use the LiPS specification.
The group's founding membership includes companies such as Orange, France Telecom, MontaVista, and Access, and they expect to see multiple implementations of the standard in commercial phones, possibly quite soon. In the next six months, the group should release some revisions to the specification based on real world experience.
LiPS is different from the Open Handset Alliance, the group supporting Google's Android, because it is a specification that allows users to create different interoperable implementations while Android is itself one implementation of Linux.
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