Why snap for mobile front-ends?
Mobile devices are changing the future of information accessibility:
- 1 million iPhone3Gs sold in the first three days of release!
- 1 in 5 in Japan now use the mobile device as their web access – they’ve dropped PCs!
- Worldwide shipments of mobile devices will grow from 3.5 million in 2008 to nearly 90 million in 2012, according to ABI Research.
- Gartner classifies the Blackberry, most Windows Mobile 6.1 devices and iPhone3G as enterprise-ready appliances
snap for iPhone
snap for mobile front-ends include support for iPhone3G, Blackberry and Windows Mobile 6.1 devices and looksoftware's mobileclient middleware.
snap connectors for mobile front-ends include:
- IBM back-end application access options
- 5250/3270 datastream
- ADO, DDM, DB access
- RPC, Web services support
- Optimised for Windows Mobile and Pocket IE
- Supports popular mobile device browsers including Safari and mini-Opera
- Dynamic multichannel User Interface(UI) generation
- DHTML thin client
- Windows Mobile UI support
| Benefits include: |
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1) Anytime, anywhere access
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| 2) Low cost, modern GUI access to core IBM applications |
| 3) Improved acceptance of IBM back-end applications |
| 4) A single toolset supports multichannels including rich, thin and mobile UIs |
| 5) All this without changing a single line of code! |