The platinum, chief, head, he who forks over the wonga for this years Orange Partner Camp is Access – the upcoming Linux OS based mobile platform. In previous years its been Microsoft, who have always had a presence here.
This time around, 8 years in, they’re notably absent. Whereas before they’ve always been here, in some form or another.
Are we to read on to this latest development, with every other mobile OS provider here?
Yes, and why not.
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Japan’s Access, the company that purchased PalmSource and Palm OS back in 2005, has today officially announced and unveiled the successor to Palm OS, the Access Linux Platform 3.0 or simply ALP 3.0. This linux based release, which is expected to replace the Garnet OS (renamed from Palm OS), not only supports native Linux and Java apps, but also has support for legacy Garnet OS apps.
For the lesser mortal phones, Access also unveiled the ALP mini. The ALP mini operating system is like a stripped down version of the new successor and is intended to drive smaller devices.
The official availability of ALP 3.0 is yet to be announced, though ALP mini has been made available to the manufacturers already.
AT&T has revealed it will be bringing Qualcomm’s MediaFLO mobile TV technology to users’ phones by May. FLO will launch on AT&T’s network this May on two new devices, the LG Vu and the Samsung Access.
AT&T said the service will feature two exclusive TV channels, but didn’t give any more information on their content. The operator did say however that it will offer full-length television content and sporting events and programming from leading entertainment brands CBS Mobile, Comedy Central, ESPN Mobile TV, FOX Mobile, MTV, NBC 2GO, NBC News2Go and Nickelodeon.
While there still seems to be a lot of skepticism from several quarters on whether mobile TV is a goer, the networks at least seem to be convinced. I can’t help but think that AT&T will need to add a lot more devices to its line up before too long if it wants to take mobile TV anywhere beyond a niche product.
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