PalmSource launches the new Palm OS Linux platform

Access, along with PalmSource member unit, has just introduced Access Linux Platform (ALP) - a Linux platform environment for handheld devices.

ALP is an integrated, open and flexible environment on the Linux platform for smartphones and mobile devices. ALP provides a complete, unified and customizable solution for portable and mobile device manufacturers as well as mobile network service providers.

' We believe that ALP combines the best components of Linux with mobile technologies developed by PalmSource and Access experts ,' said Toru Arakawa, Linux's executive chairman. ' As a commercial, open, flexible and standardized environment on the Linux platform, ALP is designed with the goal of helping handheld device manufacturers shorten the time to market their products and Support mobile network operators to provide value-added services, applications and content . '

By integrating Access's NetFront browser platform, business relationships with more than 30 handset vendors, Linux experts with advanced operating systems, applications, and user interfaces along with PalmSource's developer community, developers believe that ALP will provide the market with a flexible, comprehensive Linux-based solution that integrates the commercial level for the mobile market.

ALP is also equipped with MAX - an innovative application framework for Access and PalmSource - to provide a more user-friendly and intuitive interface for smartphones and mobile devices. MAX will still support executing multiple applications and tasks as well as providing access to background tasks.

Designed with the provision of a predictable and intuitive access model for a single-handed or two-handed user interface, the MAX application framework provides the flexibility to support five-way access and two separate function keys as well as touch screen.