LiMo Foundation announced today 11 new member companies. The addition of Cellon, Esmertec, Freescale Semiconductor, Longcheer Holdings, MIZI Research, Movial Corporation, PacketVideo Corporation (PV), SK Innoace, Telecom Italia, VirtualLogix and ZTE Corporation advances LiMo’s membership to more than 50 leaders from across the value system.

Some of the new LiMo members previously participated in the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum, which announced in June 2008 that it would fold activities into LiMo in order to accelerate the emergence of common mobile Linux specifications and implementations and to bolster the emerging mobile Linux developer community creating new mobile applications, services and end-user experiences.

“These 11 new members will join the development of a consistent and competitive global handset OS (operating system), within which the collaborative benefits of shared cost and innovation are realized and upon which diverse, commercially driven differentiation freely thrives.” said Morgan Gillis, executive director of LiMo Foundation.

Six mobile industry leaders launched LiMo Foundation in January 2007 in order to deliver an open and globally consistent, Mobile Linux-based software platform for use by the entire mobile industry. So far, 21 mobile handset models have been brought to market utilizing LiMo Platform technology.