Enabling more user friendly mobile services

Apr 18, 2007 13:40 GMT  ·  By

SoonR has just announced support for Nokia's AJAX enabled browser available in all S60 3rd Edition devices. Both SoonR and Nokia are industry leaders in utilizing AJAX to improve the mobile experience.

AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML), a Web development technique, improves users' mobile web experiences by delivering better response time, easier navigation and a simpler interface. Nokia's AJAX-enabled browser allows rich mobile applications to be developed for S60 3rd Edition devices. SoonR leverages the S60 browser to give users faster, better mobile access to their most important PC applications and data.

"Nokia is one of the world's leading handset manufacturers and is now providing a fully integrated AJAX-enabled browser to users around the world," said Martin Frid-Nielsen, CEO of SoonR. "SoonR has been the first software developer to provide an AJAX-enabled mobile solution. Using our two technologies together magnifies the benefits even further for mobile business and professional users."

"We're excited to see SoonR bringing the user experience for their innovative solution to the next level by taking advantage of our newest browser technologies," said Franklin Davis, Head of Business Development, Nokia.

"SoonR taps the built-in capabilities of Nokia's AJAX-enabled browser to provide their users with a better, faster experience and with no additional software to install on the handset," said Ajit Jaokar, CEO of Futuretext and chair of Oxford University's Next Generation Mobile Applications Panel.

SoonR's AJAX enabled interface will be available immediately for all S60 3rd Edition devices as part of the SoonR service. AJAX enabled phones are automatically detected, allowing users access to these enhanced capabilities with no action required.