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Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Motorola moves into mobile corporate applications
This is done in several areas, including via Motopro Mobility Suite (framework for mobile applications) and a new company called CanvasM (development of mobile business applications).Quote: Motorola's vision of a business world awash in mobile apps is nice in concept, but it's not happening in practice. It's difficult to shrink an app for display on a small device screen and tedious for users to manipulate the tiny keyboards on phones.
There are proven ways to get around this:
* By not trying to shrink the existing Windows- or Web-based application, but rather re-invent it based on the phone's limitations, but also added capabilities.
* By putting all the computer-heavy processes on the server (e.g. no local database, always on-line etc).
* By focusing on easy to fill in forms, and minimize the need for entering lengthy texts.
Thin Phones Aren't Enough; Motorola Pursues Mobile App Market - Yahoo! News
