Another one falls to the acronym!
Access, developers of one of the leading Linux-based mobile operating systems for mobile phones, the Access Linux Platform (ALP) has announced that its positioning its operating system for Mobile Internet Devices. The report comes via LinuxDevices but there’s a press release here.
ACCESS will be supporting the growth of the Mobile Internet Device (MID) market with the capability of running ACCESS Linux Platform on the emerging MID format, giving MID manufacturers the same complete, flexible, commercial-grade, Linux mobile platform available for mobile handsets to access a wide range of Internet and Web 2.0 services. The flexibility of ACCESS Linux Platform will enable licensees to create differentiated experiences, including UI innovations and support for larger displays.
ALP uses a NetFront browser layer which also supports frameless pages (widgets) that can be used as applications. This widget support and a widget community was also announced in the press release. I’ve used NetFront on a Sharp CL3200 before but that was a few years ago now. I’ve made a note to test it out as soon as I have the hardware available. It’s available here if you want to try it out on WM. Recent comments I’ve read suggest that its a high quality browser so if you try it out, let me know how it goes.
The report also says that Access will be demonstrating it’s Access Linux Platform on Cortex-based demonstrator boards. Now that’s something I’d really like to see, especially with that larger display but come on guys, demonstrators?
Desperate flailings of a non-starter. The UI has to be redone. Then won’t it be fun to put 320×480 PalmOS apps on that big MID screen? Oh, right, there’s a preview of that Ugly already available: the Garnet VM for the Finnish abominations.
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