Could Nokia Be Saved by Nitobi’s PhoneGap ?
“Nokia’s smartphone market share has declined from 68.5 percent in mid-2007 to 44.3 percent by the first quarter of 2010″, reported Kevin Tofel on GigaOM, and reportedly seeking a new CEO according to many news sources. The mobile platforms market is getting hot after iPhone, Android, and WebOS, the competition entered a crucial stage and left Nokia with Symbian behind. This week Nitobi and Symbian announced at Oscon their partnership to simplify mobile application development by integrating Symbian’s web application creation tools and Nitobi’s PhoneGap. PhoneGap will now be included as part of the web extensions package in the Symbian^3 platform. With both of these developments in place, any web developer who knows HTML, CSS and JavaScript can now write a mobile application once and deploy it across multiple operating systems and devices. In addition, developers can access native device capabilities such as telephony, contacts, camera, accelerometers, orientation and location that can be modified or enhanced to improve the end user experience and device functionality.
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Could Nokia Be Saved by Nitobi’s PhoneGap ?
