Intel and Nokia have announced ofono, "a place to bring developers together around designing an infrastructure for building mobile telephony (GSM/UMTS) applications".

The web site says it’s a high-level D-Bus API providing a low-level plug-in API for integrating with open source as well as third party telephony stacks, cellular modems and storage back-ends.

So what does this mean for mobile developers? It will probably help the device creation community (and obviously Nokia) create new wireless devices based on Intel chips. My guess is that this is more about wireless netBooks/web tablets than it is about phones. While ARM-based OSs such as Android and Symbian try to migrate upwards to netbooks, Intel need to move downwards to make standard PC architectures easier to network via GSM/UMTS.

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