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    Digital Airways’ User Interface claimed to bring the ‘glamour of cutting-edge user experience’ to Android platform

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    Mobile software specialist Digital Airways has announced the availability of Kaleido for Android, a turnkey solution that claims to bring an instant cutting-edge user experience to Google's Android platform, allowing handset manufacturers to differentiate in an efficient and cost-effective way.

    The availability of Android represents a fundamental change in the mobile industry as the first feature-rich open source application framework, and is said to mark a shift of the competition from hardware to software: "Vendors who have prepared themselves for this radical change will find themselves in a better position than those who continue to differentiate their products on the basis of hardware." Says Malik Saadi, principal analyst at Informa.

    For those embracing the Android platform, says the company, the ability to individualize through innovative and distinctive user experiences remains challenging: Tools provided by Android still require laborious and costly efforts to create a user experience that is up to the industry's highest standards, such as the iPhone or Samsung's TouchWiz.

    With Kaleido for Android, such user experience is available now, it's claimed. Based on its widely deployed Kaleido technology, it takes full advantage of the Android framework to offer a sophisticated user experience based on rich content, multi-touch, widgets, 3D, sophisticated animations and visual effects. Says Digital Airways' CEO and co-founder Philippe Silberzahn: "Kaleido provides handset manufacturers instant access to a full user experience platform that meets the highest industry standards."

    Kaleido also provides handsets makers with a single, unified development environment to ease customization and extension of such cutting-edge user experiences without heavy-handed coding, ensuring shorter time to market and cost effectiveness.

    Silberzahn adds: "Kaleido for Android is the user experience solution that manufacturers need on the Android platform to differentiate and build on their respective branding."