New Palm OS: ALP 3.0

This is big, big news folks. While the mobile industry seemingly zooms right past PALM, their faithful followers have been wondering when their increasingly clunky mobile OS would finally receive an update. And now it will with the advent of Access Linux Platform 3.0, or ALP 3.0 for short.

Access purchased PalmSource and this operating system is the successor to Garnet OS (formerly Palm OS). Yes, yes… its all kind of confusing. But his new platform not only supports native Linux but also Legacy Garnet OS and Java Apps. Not to mention, ALP 3.0 is compliant with LiMo Foundation’s standards.

See those nice, beautiful screen shots above? Courtesy of a new advanced UI that is said to feature highly detailed visuals, smooth transitions and animations. In explaining the direction the company took:

“The openness and flexibility of Linux are driving innovation in mobile phones and Internet-enabled devices,” said Toru Arakawa, CEO, president and co-founder of ACCESS. “With the introduction of ACCESS Linux Platform mini and the enhanced capabilities of our LiMo-compliant ACCESS Linux Platform v3.0, we can offer our customers a complete range of solutions extending from feature phones through low-end smartphones, to high-end smartphones and Internet devices that will further enable the next generation of mobile Internet use.”

You heard them mention ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP) Mini? That’s the kiddie version of ALP that will be available on feature phones and mainstream consumer phones that aren’t considered “smart” devices. ALP mini is available now while the full ALP 3.0 OS is yet to be released.

We’ll be following this one pretty closely.

[Via PalmInfoCenter, MobileCrunch]

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