Open Mobile OS company Azingo has announced Azingo Mobile 2.0, a complete Linux based platform, which includes the Azingo Browser, Azingo Web Runtime, Azingo Application Suite, and Azingo Active Homescreen. Azingo Mobile 2.0 offers a comprehensive UI toolkit enabling a full touch user experience and web widgets that can leverage device specific services like telephony, messaging, multimedia and location based services through the Azingo Web Runtime.
Azingo's products will be demonstrated at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
"We are excited to bring a full touch and web-enabled open mobile OS to market," said Mahesh Veerina, CEO of Azingo. "Azingo's mobile platform and software suite enable operators and handset manufacturers to deliver customized mobile devices with a rich Internet experience and a consistent user interface across their product portfolios."
"Azingo has demonstrated leadership in the open mobile platform space by bringing to market a full touch user experience for the LiMo platform," said Morgan Gillis, executive director of the LiMo Foundation. "The rich Web Runtime environment and SDK of Azingo Mobile 2.0 will be instrumental in enabling the LiMo developer ecosystem."
Azingo Mobile 2.0 includes all of the software, development tools, documentation and training required to design and commercialize new mobile phone products. This new platform is based on the LiMo Foundation R1 Reference Implementation which is highly customizable to meet operator requirements. Customers licensing Azingo Mobile 2.0 will receive the Azingo Browser, Azingo Web Runtime, Azingo Active Homescreen and the Azingo Application Suite.
The Azingo Browser is a complete Internet browser for all mobile platforms both open and proprietary. Based on WebKit open source technology, the Azingo Browser offers industry leading performance and desktop-class features including, tabbed browsing, cookies, history, bookmarks, security, page navigation, multimedia plug-ins and integration with Adobe Flash Lite.
Azingo Web Runtime is a WebKit based technology that installs and executes web applications (widgets) on a variety of mobile platforms. With Azingo Web Runtime, developers can create web applications using web technologies such as AJAX, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Web Runtime applications behave like native applications and deliver Web 2.0 experiences that can utilize Azingo's comprehensive set of APIs to access handset resources.
Azingo's Active Homescreen radically extends the capabilities of a conventional phone homescreen by allowing users to add and organize pertinent, real-time information from the Internet and their phone for fast, simple access. The Azingo Active Homescreen was designed to mimic the familiar computer desktop experience through features such as a wider, scrolling homescreen area, drag and drop, shortcuts, folders, and widgets. Users also have one-touch access to content on their handset, including native, Web, or Flash Lite applications, contacts, photos, music, videos, and messages.
The Azingo Applications Suite is available for all Linux based mobile platforms. The Suite includes the following applications: Azingo Mobile Entertainment, Azingo Mobile Productivity, Azingo Mobile Communications, and Azingo Mobile System Applications.
— Azingo Mobile Entertainment provides music and video players, camera,
and photo gallery.
— Azingo Mobile Productivity delivers complete Personal Information
Management applications, including contacts, calendar, tasks, notes,
calculator, and alarm.
— Azingo Mobile Communications offers telephony, call log, SMS, MMS, and
email.
— Azingo Mobile System Applications include idle screen, main menu,
panel, phone settings, application and connectivity managers, and a file
browser.