The new version of the Openwave Mobile Browser WAP Edition features a graphical user interface (GUI) with a dramatically improved navigation model which minimizes required keystrokes and maximizes intuitiveness. Recognizing that the handset is a critical component, Genie developed a set of browser requirements designed to optimize subscribers’ mobile Internet experiences. This approach will give Genie the opportunity to offer exciting new consumer services to ensure consistency in the user experience.
We believe that the new Openwave Mobile Browser will dramatically improve the consumer’s mobile Internet experience and expect the improvement will be truly dramatic – it’s like comparing the transition from DOS to Windows(TM). The introduction of the innovative new graphical user interface constitutes a significant step forward in offering users a compelling and satisfying mobile experience, said Kent Thexton, president of BT Genie.
Genie selected Openwave as a strategic browser vendor because of its focus on usability and delivering innovative consumer features like the ability to download images and ring tones.
BT handset supplier, Siemens, has committed to support BT’s decision to adopt the Openwave Mobile Browser’s new graphical user interface. As a long-time partner of Openwave, we are working together to support BT’s efforts to improve the Genie user’s experience while supporting the WAP standard, said Georges Boulloy, senior vice president, Product Operations for Siemens Mobile Phones. Openwave’s graphical new user interface and security capabilities enable Siemens with the flexibility to develop world-class GSM phones that will have excellent usability.
The Openwave Mobile Browser WAP Edition allows communications service providers (CSPs) like Genie to offer compelling consumer and business-oriented services, such as enhanced security for m-commerce applications and valuable location- and presence-based applications. The browser supports over-the-air provisioning of new services and will also include support for WAP Push, wireless server certificates (WTLS Class II), and the Wireless Identity Module (WIM). The WAP 1.2-compliant microbrowser has an intuitive GUI-which supports both color and black and white displays-that requires no additional memory and is easily integrated into high-volume mobile phones.
Openwave understands that wireless operators need to spur the acceleration of mobile Internet adoption and take more control of their future. Genie is the first GSM operator to join leading operators in Japan and the U.S. in dictating specific requirements for their handset vendors, said Jeff Damir, vice president of Device Products at Openwave. By selecting a preferred browser, rather than coping with a variety of browsers with different characteristics, Genie will have the opportunity to more efficiently develop intuitive, compelling applications that are tuned to work with the consumer’s mobile phone. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to partner with Genie to dramatically improve usability of WAP services.
