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  • Open Letter to the Wholesale Applications Community

     

    Dear Industry Colleagues:

    Further to the public announcement of 15 February 2010, I am very pleased to write this open letter to the initiators of the Wholesale Applications Community on behalf of the Board of LiMo Foundation offering a) our full support, b) our committed participation, and c) our immediate practical assistance in a spirit of whole-industry cooperation.

    It is clear to us that the highly complementary areas of focus, shared belief in true openness and common industry vision create an exceptional opportunity for deep and long-term collaboration between LiMo Foundation and the Wholesale Applications Community to release unfettered innovation across the industry and fully ignite the mobile internet in a way that is compelling and life-enhancing to consumers everywhere.

    LiMo Foundation was launched in 2007 as a constitutionally open, transparent and non-discriminatory industry consortium with the sole purpose of collaboratively delivering a competitive Linux-based device software platform to the industry upon which commercial innovation can freely thrive without brand or business model conflict with the underlying platform. Since LiMo’s launch, three major releases...
  • LiMo Foundation Handset Lineup Expands With New Feature-Rich Devices From ELSE, NEC, Panasonic

    Newest LiMo handsets combine style, durability, and in-demand high-performance functionality

    BARCELONA, Spain, February 15, 2010 – LiMo Foundation™, a global consortium of leading companies from throughout the mobile industry, today announced new LiMo compliant handsets from manufacturers ELSE, NEC, and Panasonic Mobile Communications. These models bring the number of LiMo devices announced to date to fifty.

    “We welcome the arrival of these innovative new devices which attest to the richness and versatility of LiMo Platform,” said Morgan Gillis, executive director of the LiMo Foundation. “The continued growth of LiMo devices is further endorsement of LiMo’s vision, mission, and technologies.”

    Designed to appeal to consumers seeking elegant, feature-rich handsets, the new models combine next-generation functionality and reliable performance in an array of sleek, sophisticated device designs. Integrating advanced user interface technologies and critical functionality and reliability elements such as keypad-to-touchpad conversion, high-megapixel auto-focus cameras, waterproofing, and extended battery life will ensure a more immersive...
  • Mobile Industry Leaders Collaborate for On-Time Delivery of R3 LiMo Platform

    Latest release of mobile industry’s only independent handset platform imminently available

    BARCELONA, Spain, February 15, 2010 – LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of leading companies from throughout the mobile industry, today announced the imminent availability of the new R3 release of LiMo Platform. The updated platform features new support for Location Based Services (LBS) and contact management and extends existing features including support for application management, advanced UI and multimedia technologies, and enhanced security and networking.

    “Delivery of R3 of LiMo Platform is a further important delivery milestone and again for LiMo Foundation demonstrates that powerful likeminded companies can work together practically to create a common platform that is evolved and governed through a truly open and independent process,” said Morgan Gillis, executive director of LiMo Foundation. “This latest update to the LiMo Platform also furthers LiMo’s leadership in commercially unifying mobile Linux technologies for the benefit of the whole industry.”

Mobile Internet as seen from Opera Mini
Written by Igor Netto, Product Manager Mobile, Opera Software   
Friday, 21 August 2009 15:09

I have to start this blog with a small technical note for those people that do not know Opera Mini.

Opera Mini is a browser for mobile phones based on a client-server technology: a light client (J2ME) that provides user interface and local handling of web pages, together with a powerful server to which is offloaded the heavy-duty task of downloading and rendering web pages. The result is a thin client, installable on virtually any mobile phone, which allows access to full internet with a reduction of bandwidth usage up to 80%.

Now that it's (hopefully) clear what Opera Mini is, I can start this month's blog post on a happy noteJ .  For the first time, people using Opera Mini viewed more than 10 billion pages in one month, 8% growth over the previous month.  At the time of writing, the number of active users for the month of August is over 29 million; it's very likely that Opera Mini will be able to celebrate the ambitious target of 30 million monthly active users.

These numbers may be significant for Opera Mini, but they are far more important for the mobile Web itself. These numbers prove that experiencing the mobile Web is not confined to the relatively small club of expensive smartphone users but can be available to any mobile phone user.  In effect, feature phones are the larger contributors of Opera Mini transcoded pages.

For companies planning their mobile Web strategy, it is not enough to cater for one phone or one type of phone; rather it is important to code for the Web itself and let the browser on the phone handle the rest.

Developing for open standards, implemented on open platforms is key to unlocking a huge and so far, untapped business potential hidden in the hands of billions of mobile phone users around the world.

Network operators and device vendors are beginning to embrace open networks and open development initiatives to connect a new range of devices and create new business models.   This is now starting to result  in revenue growth for those companies that embraced full internet on mobile phones.

This fast growing movement is also allowing millions of people in developing countries to finally access internet services, resulting in unprecedented access to unbiased information and market opportunities.

 

 

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