oFono – yet another open mobile platform

Apparently Intel and Nokia thinks that the world needs yet another open mobile platform besides Android, Limo, OpenMoko, Maemo and whatever else is out there.

Intel and Nokia have announced the oFono project which is 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 includes a high-level D-Bus API for use by telephony applications of any license. oFono itself is licensed under GPLv2. 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 and are inviting all developers to join the ofono.org effort. You can checkout the oFono architecture below:

Visit the oFono website for more information. You can also download the oFono source code.