Nokia Says Widgets Open Up Mobile Market To Web Developers

April 16, 2007 – 4:28 pm

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You always hear how the mobile content market will explode, but so far it hasn’t really happened yet. For that reason, companies like Nokia are trying to make it as easy as possible for web developers to make mobile content. Widgets might just be one such way.

Widgets allow people to personalize Internet content into lightweight Web applications and stay current with the things that matter to them. While widgets have been available on PCs for some time, they bring particular advantages to mobile devices, as mobiles are highly personal and among the few items that we always carry with us.

“Mobility will change the Internet as people are able to access and create information specific to place, time and context,” said Tero Ojanperä, Chief Technology Officer, Nokia. “Widgets are an important milestone in this development. Introducing widget support for S60, much of the innovation seen on the Internet today is being brought to the mobile space for the benefit of the millions of S60 mobile device users”.

As SmartPhones gain in popularity, it becomes a virtual “no-brainer” to assume that the proliferation of widgets will really take off.

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