PALMSOURCE RELEASES LINUX FOR SMARTPHONES

Written by Adam Gosling

Thursday, 16 February 2006

PalmSource has announced a new Linux-based operating platform for the smartphone and mobile market. The new Access Linux Platform (ALP) offers a fully featured PDA environment for mobile phones. Access, the company that acquired the operating systems subsidiary of PalmOne last year has announced the integrated, extensible platform at the GSM conference and expo in Barcelona. Access plans to make a Software Developer Kit (SDK) available to its licensing customers later this year with a view to getting the platform adopted by its 30 handset manufacturing partners. "Samsung is looking carefully at the Access Linux Platform powered by PalmSource. We hope that customers can enjoy an enhanced multimedia experience through flexible and open Linux operating systems," said Kitae Lee, president of Telecommunication Network Business of Samsung Electronics. "We will adapt the advanced technology faster than any others and keep providing customers with a variety of choices of technologies." The platform is capable of running on phones and other mobile devices designed for 2.5G and 3G networks. "We believe that ALP combines best-in-class open source Linux components with proven mobile technologies developed by PalmSource and ACCESS' Linux expertise," said Toru Arakawa, president and CEO of Access. "As a commercial-grade, flexible, open, robust and standards-based mobile Linux based platform, ALP is designed to provide handset manufacturers with faster time-to-market while supporting the goal of operators to offer revenue- generating services, applications and content." Major components include a standard, commercial-grade Linux kernel, an optimised implementation of GIMP ToolKit , GStreamer -- an open source, modular and multi-threaded streaming media framework and the SQLite embedded database engine. The company is also adding in a few extras of its own, including the NetFront browser, PalmSource messaging and telephony middleware, the PalmSource mobile applications including PIMs, multimedia, messaging and HotSync capabilities along with Palm Desktop. PalmSource Access in English Related news items Hybrid Drive Boosts Laptop's Skillset -10/10/2007 Consumers Want FMC: Companies Don't See The Benefit -02/10/2007 Broadcom Enthusisam for 802.11n Wavers -06/09/2007 Consumer Advice For Premium Mobile Services -03/09/2007 Sydney Airport Network Improved For APEC -03/09/2007 Newer news items Motorola Gets More Colourful -20/03/2006 Samsung Announces 10 Megapixel Phone -08/03/2006 Sony Ericsson Leverages Cyber-shot Brand -01/03/2006 NEW iMATE FLIP FACTOR -27/02/2006 SUPER SIMS MAKE DEBUT -19/02/2006 Older news items SMARTPHONE MARKET TO GROW AT 70% -24/01/2006 RIM TARGETS SMB CHRISTMAS WISHLIST -08/12/2005 NOKIA ANNOUNCES UPnP DEVICE -22/11/2005 THE ULTIMATE GIRLY PHONE -09/11/2005 TEENS DRAWN TO MUSIC VIDEO’S -07/11/2005 Tag This Now: