CHICAGO - Industry’s most advanced, high performance, open mobile browsing
solution
Novarra, the Internet Mobility(TM) Company, introduces their Vision
Browser Version 8.0 for operators and device manufacturers, which works
seamlessly with a broad range of mobile gateways including Novarra’s own
highly scalable and standards-based Vision mobile internet and multimedia
server. The solution provides full, rich web browsing, widgets, streaming
video and next generation mobile internet services across all handsets - from
smartphones to feature phones to emerging market devices. Through Novarra’s
analytics and reporting, operators can easily understand customer behavior to
best monetize, tune and enhance services. Novarra will be demonstrating the
latest version of the Vision micro-browser at CTIA this week at booth 4916.
Vision micro-browser version 8.0 continues Novarra’s history of
innovation with new advanced features including:
- Seven user viewing options including Snapshot, Slideshow, PC magnifier,
pan and zoom, as well as personal password manager and other mobile
usability enhancements to drive uptake and usage
- ‘Touch-to-focus’ for touch screens, enhanced fonts and content
prioritization enhancements for easy viewing and navigation
- Embedded widget runtime engine and icon-based on-device portal for app
store UI and next generation services
- Improved SSL handling for secure site access and transactions
- Expanded multimedia, Flash and streaming web video support
- Core performance upgrades to improve page load time and over the air
data payload
“The Vision platform delivers fast, simple access to billions of web
pages while continuously enabling the latest website technologies including
multimedia, widgets, and personalized content,” comments Simon Hunt, vice
president, product management for Novarra. “Market feedback for the
comprehensive platform and superior user experience has been very positive.
We believe it is important to design open solutions that meet industry
standards and deliver proven scalability for mass-market adoption.”
About Novarra - Novarra, the Internet Mobility Company, provides a high
performance mobile internet product suite for operators and internet brands
to create new services and revenue streams for smartphones and mobile
broadband devices to mass-market feature phones and emerging market handsets.
The patented architecture is open standards-based and designed for high
volume mobile consumer deployments. The solutions deliver a high quality
mobile user experience for services including full rich web, search, widgets,
personalization, video and advertising as well as support for mobile sites,
next generation portals and mobile app stores. Global, commercial deployments
over 7 years on both 2.5G and 3G networks have proven consumer satisfaction,
uptake and increased data services revenues.
Contacts:
Europe:
Annette Leach
Hotwire PR
Novarra@hotwirepr.com
+44-0-20-7608-2500
North America:
Greg Venne
Topaz Partners
Novarra@topazpartners.com
+1-781-404-2400
Source: Novarra
Europe, Annette Leach of Hotwire PR, +44-0-20-7608-2500, Novarra at hotwirepr.com; or North America, Greg Venne of Topaz Partners, +1-781-404-2400, Novarra at topazpartners.com, both for Novarra
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