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HansaWorld SmartApps for Nokia Unleashes the Power of Smart Phone |
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Written by HansaWorld
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Tuesday, 21 August 2007 |
 Enterprise software company HansaWorld has released SmartApps, a development
environment for Nokia's E-series smart phones. The move is expected to trigger
an explosion of new application development, says HansaWorld chief executive Karl
Bohlin.
READING, England, August 21- "Smart phones have become powerful computers in their own right," says Bohlin.
"We've matched that with a simple, accessible development environment that will
enable people to create their own applications for E-series phones."
Bohlin says SmartApps is an usually easy development tool: "Until now many applications
have been too difficult or too expensive to write. Now just about anybody can
use SmartApps to create fast database applications, from private individuals to
people with new business ideas and professional programmers."
The development tool is free to download and use - and developers will be paid
for applications that find users. "We've created an absolutely transparent business
model," says Bohlin. "Anybody can download SmartApps to develop anything they
want and publish it. End users pay HansaWorld to use the applications, and in
turn we pay developers."
"We're hoping the tool will trigger an explosion of new application development
for the E-series phones," adds Bohlin. "There are tens of thousands of possible
applications. We're looking forward to seeing what people come up with."
Bohlin anticipates two primary categories of use for SmartApps. "Firstly, people
will want to create mobile versions of existing applications like timesheets,
expenses claims and travel logs," he says. "But we also expect to see many new
applications that are only possible with a mobile device."
"For example, imagine a technician who is called out to repair a piece of equipment
at a customer site and finds the problem can't be fixed immediately. He could
photograph the problem with his phone, type in the serial number, add GPS co-ordinates
for the location and upload the entire package for his colleagues."
"This is just the beginning," says Bohlin. "We can see exciting possibilities
for real estate agents to send individualised portfolios to their clients' mobiles,
for the creation of online marketplaces and for news feeds, to cite just the business
uses. There are also many private uses, for example for communities and interest
groups to share information including pictures, comments, GPS data about anything
from restaurants to birdwatching sites to crime hotspots."
http://www.hansaworld.com/
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