In cooperation with Sky Link, a Russia-based mobile operator, Spb Software delivered SkyTouch, a customized Spb Mobile Shell-based UI solution, integrated with Spb Online and tuned to local preferences of SkyLink subscribers.
According to Spb Software, its SkyTouch comes preinstalled on Sky Link’s new 3G-smartphone AnyData ASP-505, and acts as a single entry point to device features and other online services, ranging from mobile TV, to online games, to local GPS-based navigation, to social networks.
Vassili Philippov, COO of Spb Software, said: I believe that Sky Link is strategically right by offering subscribers not just devices equipped with fast Internet access, but devices with preinstalled online services, which facilitate the use of such fast access.
Sky Link is a Russian CDMA operator that provides mobile data and voice 3G services in regions of Russian Federation. It is based on the CDMA2000 1X EV-DO technology (radio interface 450 MHz).
Spb Software is engaged in the design of Windows Mobile applications, with R&D and design centers in Russia and Thailand, and presence in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and USA. It combines consumer products with OEMs and carriers, such as ASUSTeK, BenQ Siemens, E-TEN, Fly, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Gigabyte, HTC, O2, Optimus, Palm, Pharos, SingTel, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Swisscom Mobile, Toshiba, T-Mobile, and VimpelCom.
