LiPS Forum public standards release

The LiPS Forum just released their first set of standards to the public. This includes the LiPS Reference Model, Address Book and Voice Call backends and user interface service specifications which are based on GTK 2.x. The release of additional parts for the version 1.0 standard is planned for this year.

Read the full announcement at the website of the LiPS Forum here.

This is a quite important step for our GPE Phone Edition project which works on an Open Source implementation of these standards and of course for the development of Linux based phones in general.

LiPS is an industry consortium which defines standards for mobile phones based on Linux and related Open Source solutions. In the current members list we find some quite well known companies in the Open Source landscape.