Photos and a video of Access's just-launched Linux-based mobile phone operating system have been published by Spanish website PDAExpertos. The media, which show a development board and a prototype phone running ALP v1.0, were captured at this week's 3GSM mobile technology… conference in Barcelona.

Access launched ALP v1.0 at the show on Feb. 12, after announcing the platform at last year's 3GSM event. ALP (Access Linux Platform) replaces the venerable Palm OS for PDAs, but is clearly positioned as a mobile phone operating system, first and foremost.

The PDAExpertos photos show how the ALP interface handles the operating system's support for native, Java, and Palm OS applications. It appears that the Garnet VM (virtual machine) can be configured globally for memory usage, key mapping, and other parameters, while each installed Palm OS application can also be configured for display size, memory, sound, “virtual mouse,” and key mapping.

The PDAExpertos video shows ALP v1.0 running on actual mobile phone hardware. The action is difficult to follow, but appears to show a “Weather manager” applet that can be configured to download local weather maps and forecast data.

The photo and videos can be found here.

Further details on the Access Linux Platform, version 1.0, are here.

Thanks to José Julio Ruiz for sending us a note about the PDAExpertos.com coverage.

 
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