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, LG, Panasonic, NEC, Samsung, Orange, Linux, NTT DoCoMo

Not to be outdone by a powerful Android presence, the boys and girls at the LiMo Foundation have brought it strong with a series of announcements at Mobile World Congress. Yeah, the SDK is en route, but that’s just the beginning; first up, and perhaps most notably in its effort to fight the Android juggernaut, LiMo has managed to sign up a slew of new partners. Most notable on the refreshed roster include ACCESS (which just hooked up with MontaVista, itself a LiMo member), Samsung, and carriers Orange and SoftBank.

The foundation is backing up its talk with some walk, too, in the form of several production-ready handsets: the U9, Z6w, Z6, E8, RAZR 2 V8, and RAZR 2 V8 Luxury Edition from Motorola (all devices that have previously been launched using MOTOMAGX, Moto’s own special flavor of mobile Linux), the Samsung i800 which is destined for Orange’s airwaves, and the N905i, N905iu, N705, N705iu, P905i, P905iTV, P705, and P705iu — a mouthful of models from members NEC and Panasonic for Japan’s NTT DoCoMo. Also rocking out at MWC are prototypes from LG and Aplix along with the Purple Magic low-cost flip from Purple Labs. Is it all enough momentum to give some balance to the mobile Linux landscape and serve as the yin to Google’s yang? Seems like a strong possibility, but we’ll have to hold our horses until developers are playing with the final tools and handsets are in wide circulation.

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Source: www.engadgetmobile.com

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, Software, Sony Ericsson, Windows Mobile

It probably shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, but yep, that mysterious new version of Windows Mobile that Sony Ericsson was dread to discuss at MWC wasn’t so mysterious at all — it’s just Windows Mobile 6.1. Granted, 6.1 still hasn’t been announced to the world, but it’s a well-documented rev that should do a decent job of holding us all over until 7 finally (finally!) happens. Given the pure hotness of the hardware, we kinda wish Microsoft actually had rolled some sort of crazy post-6.1 update just for it, but we guess Sony Ericsson’s custom panel interface will have to pick up the slack there.

[Via SEfanatics]

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Source: www.engadgetmobile.com

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, Motorola, Linux

Anything is possible we guess, but this Motorola A810 looks a bit like it might have been put together at kindergarten craft hour. Apparently this Linux-based — LiMo? — 2.4-inch touchscreen device will feature handwriting recognition, a 2 megapixel cam, memory expansion via SD card, and hopefully the bezel around the screen will end up a little more even. Of course, this could also be a fanboy mockup and we’re simply not getting that in translation, either way, hit the read link for more pics and even more undecipherable translation.

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Source: www.engadgetmobile.com

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