The OMTP (Open Mobile Terminal Platform) has announced the Approved Release 1.0 of BONDI. The BONDI initiative is driving a consistent set of web APIs with an underlying security model on mobile devices. This will enable web applications and widgets to access capabilities provided by the underlying platform and terminal (e.g. use of the camera, location or contact details) which will work across a wide range of different devices, platforms and operators. The OMTP says that developers will benefit from these enhanced features and consistent environments, driving the availability of attractive applications, which in turn will be of high value to consumers. 
The BONDI 1.0 release comes at the same time as the approval of release 2.0 of the LiMo platform specification, which includes support for the BONDI browser and runtime frameworks, meaning that LiMo R2 handsets with web runtimes will be able to support web applications and widgets that can be easily created with common web authoring tools.
The BONDI Approved Release 1.0 is the result of a large amount of effort by the OMTP Members and Participants together with the wider community through the use of an open source approach says OMTP Managing Director, Tim Raby. This release provides a solid basis upon which we will see commercial implementations of BONDI on real devices in the coming year.