Mobile Distillery brings iPhone content to mass market phones
Mobile Distillery, the leading specialist in software solutions for mobile application production and testing services, today announced tools and processes that enable quick and easy migration of iPhone applications to Java ME phones and other platforms such as BREW*, Windows Mobile* and Google Android. Thanks to Mobile Distillery‘s technology and its proven parametric development methodology, companies can quickly and cost effectively take niche applications and services and make them available to the mass market.
Since its debut in July 2008, the iPhone 3G has been a hit with consumers with Apple reporting that it has recently overtaken RIM, becoming the second most popular Smartphone in the world with a 17% share of the Smartphone market. The iPhone's success has proved to be a catalyst for mobile application development: already there have been more than 300 million downloads of the 10,000 applications available on the Apple App Store.
Taking advantage of its two award winning software solutions, Alembic and Celsius, Mobile Distillery allows companies to build on the success of their iPhone application and easily migrate it to other devices that share the iPhone's multimedia and connectivity features. This means that companies can quickly and effectively reach the other 80% of Smartphone users who don't have an iPhone, as well as potentially reaching out to the billions of subscribers using mid and low end handsets.
Using Mobile Distillery's Alembic knowledge database, which combines more than 1,300 fully tested characteristics, behaviors and performances of 1000+ handsets worldwide, Mobile Distillery can easily measure and predict the compatibility of an iPhone application in advance.
With Celsius, Mobile Distillery's automated development and porting suite, companies can turn the market potential for the application defined by Alembic into reality. Celsius enables the application to be ported across specific Java ME, Android, BREW* and Windows Mobile* handsets using just one set of source code. All the resources of the iPhone application (text, images, animations, sounds) are managed and optimised within Celsius combining streamlined processes and automated resource management tools.
"The iPhone has shown tremendous success and is a hit with developers, but they also need to reach a much larger share of the one billion handsets that are sold every year," said Eric Lemarechal, Co-founder and CEO of Mobile Distillery.
"Taking advantage of our unique expertise in Java ME technologies and testing services, companies can now have a quick and easy way to take the success they have achieved with their iPhone application and apply it to the mass market," said Vincent Berge, Co-founder and General Manager of Mobile Distillery.
Major application developers and integrators, including web specialists, mobile marketing agencies and IT services companies have already adopted Mobile Distillery's software solutions to develop Java mobile content and services and reach the broadest range of devices worldwide.
* managed through the Innaworks partnership - www.innaworks.com
About Mobile Distillery
A specialist in mobile technologies and in-depth handset knowledge, Mobile Distillery was founded in 2005 to solve the platform and handset fragmentation issue that developers face when developing Mobile content & services. Its software solutions reduce porting cycles by up to 80%, generate cost savings, and accelerate time-to-market of Java mobile applications while ensuring their easy updates to new devices in European, North-American and Asian markets. Its Testing Services allow corporations to ensure quality of their mobile applications and products with professional QA Testing to Mobile Apps, NFC apps, or SIM card applications.
Mobile Distillery's customers include developers, publishers and system integrators across the mobile application ecosystem, web specialists, mobile game publishers, mobile marketing agencies and IT service companies.
Mobile Distillery has offices in Paris, Marseilles and Montreal. For more information please visit www.mobile-distillery.com
