Mobile Application Development

According to IDC, 70 per cent of mobile devices will be smart phones by 2010. Today a lot of our clients use mobile as their only deployment platform. Mobile application development requires special skills and experience since it differs greatly from traditional, matured application development. Battery life, restricted screen size and network speed are some of the things that have to be considered while developing a mobile application. Photon developed their first web application with WAP in 1999 and has continued to be involved in this field through the last years rapid development.

Today the mobile market is very diversified with multiple operating systems like PocketPC, Blackberry, Treo, Mobile Linux, Cocoa, Symbian, i-mode, Android, etc., on various different voice and data networks like TDMA, CDMA, GSM/GPRS and Wi-Fi. This includes various versions of hardware and makes a consistent mobile experience hard to test. In order to address this Photon has opened its state of the art mobile lab. Equipped with more than 200 phones that simulate a variety of user experiences, the Photon Mobile Lab includes application testing on voice and data networks, mobile operating systems, and different operating system versions running on multiple phone models. The lab supports all major network simulators to test phones in i-Mode, TDMA, CDMA, GSM/GPRS and 3G, as well as first-hand testing of battery life, download time and application consistency across platforms. This ensures that we can guarantee a true, consistent, state of the art experience for your mobile applications.

Since SMS and WAP through “fat” vs. “thin” clients to Location based services we have been there. The mobile internet is finally here and Photon is at the forefront of this revolution!