Instantly allow over 20,000 mobile applications to run on these popular devices, plans to bring to market a version of StyleTap® CrossPlatform for the iPhone™ and the iPod® touch were announced today by StyleTap Inc. Including how it will be marketed and sold, further information about the product will be made available in early July 2008. Showing an experimental prototype of StyleTap CrossPlatform running existing mobile applications on an iPod touch, in order to determine the level of interest, StyleTap posted, in February 2008, a video to Viddler and YouTube. The company received many emails from both end-users and application developers expressing great interest in having such a product available, thanked to the the videos, which have been viewed more than 800,000 times, making an instant and overwhelming response.
As the powerful processor and large screen allows applications written for Palm OS® devices to run at full speed and at full screen resolution, StyleTap CrossPlatform, Technically, is an excellent fit with the iPhone. With mobile applications originally designed for touch screen devices, the iPhone touch screen technology works in a very natural way.
Developers can now sell their applications to millions more users who use other devices running StyleTap CrossPlatform, with no changes and therefore no work required on their part. StyleTap CrossPlatform provides, if they do wish to use unique features of new devices, simple extensions that give them access to those capabilities without having to completely re-write or convert their applications.
To deploy their applications on the millions of handheld PDAs and smartphones running Microsoft Windows Mobile, StyleTap CrossPlatform has successfully enabled developers of applications originally written for Palm OS devices. With the impending release of StyleTap CrossPlatform for Symbian OS, currently in the beta testing cycle, these same applications will soon be available to the hundreds of millions of users with smartphones based on the Symbian OS platform.