Mobile World Congress 2009 – the Access booth

At this year’s Mobile World Congress, the booths of Access and Palm were right next to one another. Even though they were very close physically, the culture clash could not have been more obscene: while Palm barely admitted people to its booth, Access even gave away a Vespa to one lucky visitor:

Access demoed ALP and ALP mini (among various other NetFront-derived technologies). According to them, ALP mini (which is neither opensource nor freely programmable) is intended for featurephones, while the partially-opensource ALP should power smartphones and even MID devices:

ALP Mini was demoed on two devices:

Here are two screenshots:

Unfortunately, no ALP device was available. However, I was encouraged to photograph and interact with two demo boards – according to Access, the first ALP devices are due in the near future:

Finally, here is a funny shot – the Kindle is powered by Netfront:

Related posts:

1. Access’s booth at Mobile World Congress 2012
2. Access Co at the Mobile World Congress 2011
3. Mobile World Congress 2010 – ITM / Hagenuk booth
4. Mobile World Congress 2012 – HP’s booth
5. Download the “Mobile World Congress 2009 Event Guide”