12 May 09 Intel and Nokia to Create Android Competitor: oFono
The mobile market is just about to get hotter than it already is. A new open source project has just been launched today by Intel and Nokia. The oFono project will apparently be a Linux-based OS meant to compete against Android. Considering the names behind it we should assume that oFono will have a bright future.
The new OS will be used in various smartphones and mobile devices. It will be able to connect to GSM/UMTS networks, it will make calls, access the SIM card and it will have support for various mobile apps. We are really anxious to see a phone running on this new OS but we have no idea when that’s going to happen.
Here’s what the first blog post says about oFono:
Intel and Nokia are pleased to jointly announce the oFono project, an open source project for developing an open source telephony solution.
oFono.org is a place to bring developers together around designing an infrastructure for building mobile telephony (GSM/UMTS) applications.…
oFono is licensed under GPLv2, and it includes a high-level D-Bus API for use by telephony applications of any license. oFono also includes a low-level plug-in API for integrating with Open Source as well as third party telephony stacks, cellular modems and storage back-ends. The plug-in API functionality is modeled on public standards, in particular 3GPP TS 27.007 “AT command set for User Equipment (UE).”
Nokia and Intel will jointly maintain the oFono project. We’d like to invite all developers to join the ofono.org effort and community.
Anyone excited about the new OS?
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This is NOT a new OS but a telephony stack. Think of it as a solution that handles voice and data connections using the cell network.
Ofono will probably run on Moblin or Maemo which are both based on Linux and provide these two distributions with cell capabilities.