Palm's purchase of expanded rights to the Palm OS source code—including to use it "in any product from Palm and together with any other system technologies"—is not so much about getting the right to develop more products on the aging Palm OS Garnet platform. It's more likely about getting the right to add Garnet compatibility to a next-generation Palm OS that Palm themselves will develop. ACCESS didn't gain Palm as a licensee for its ACCESS Linux Platform, but if Palm turns Garnet into an execution environment that runs on two (or more) platforms, this may give new lif
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ITU Telecom World 2006 was held in Hong Kong this week, Theo does a report of the show just for "Palm lovers". ACCESS was there showing off the Access linux Platform (ALP) as well as a few Palm OS Treos. The Xplore m70 also made an appearance.
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ACCESS has revealed in a recent statement that the initial release of the Access Linux Platform has been delayed. PalmSource previously stated that the ALP software developer kit would be available by the end of 2006, ACCESS is now targeting a release for "sometime in the first half of 2007."
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Linux has been mentioned as a potentially leading platform for mobile devices for as long as there have been mobile devices. However, mobile Linux is still largely missing in action. The new crop of high-visibility smart phones such as the Samsung BlackJack, the Nokia E62 and the Treo 680 are based on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile, the Symbian and the aging Palm OS platforms.
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Maureen O'Connell an ACCESS spokesperson, has issued a statement to PalmInfocenter clarifying the timing of the release of the ACCESS Linux Platform. She says ACCESS has previously stated that they plan to deliver a pre-release version of the ACCESS Linux Platform PDK to select licensees, and a pre-release version of the ACCESS Linux Platform SDK to select registered developers before the end of this year, and that general availability would be in the first half of 2007.
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An ACCESS spokesperson tells Softwhere Everywhere that ACCESS has already released the ALP Platform Developer Kit to a number of companies and answers a few questions about the nature of what was released and what it means for the development of products based on the ACCESS Linux Platform.
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ACCESS is featuring a number of ACCESS Linux Platform demonstrations in its booth at the 3GSM World Congress going on this week in Barcelona. ACCESS is showing ALP v1.0 running on Marvell PX3xx applications processor and the OMAP platform from Texas Instruments. They are also showing telephony, messaging and multimedia entertainment demos.
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A five year forecast has Linux phones hitting the 200 million mark, up from 8.1 million in 2007.
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It’s not often that we say “it rocks” when analyzing a consumer device trend. But the findings of our latest ChangeWave cell phone survey invite extremes to describe the startling impact the Apple (AAPL) iPhone is having on the cellular industry.
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It’s not often that we say “it rocks” when analyzing a consumer device trend. But the findings of our latest ChangeWave cell phone survey invite extremes to describe the startling impact the Apple (AAPL) iPhone is having on the cellular industry.
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