Smarterphone was a Norwegian company making

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for

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, founded in 1993 as Kvaleberg AS before being renamed in December 2010. In June 2007,

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investor

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invested €2 million in the company. By January 2010, further €3.6 million was invested.

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completed acquisition of Smarterphone by November 2011. The head office was in

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, but the company also had offices in

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and the

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. Smarterphone developed mobile software for handsets, with

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s, ODMs and chipset vendors as customers. The company also provided

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in the above areas. In 2008, then as Kvaleberg, the company joined the

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, and at the 2009 Mobile World Congress they presented the ''Madrid'' handset, in cooperation with Compal Communications.

Smarterphone OS

The company's main product was Smarterphone OS, which was a

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full mobile phone operating system and applications suite for the feature phone segment. Smarterphone OS, then called Mimiria, was first unveiled at the

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show in February 2008, and was used for such handsets as the

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, Vibo T588, and the ''Madrid'' LiMo device. The Smarterphone architecture was ''clean-room'', with a very strict model-view-controller design that enabled variations to be implemented with little effort. The user interface of Smarterphone OS was programmed in a scripting language, which was a variant of

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with

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extensions. Smarterphone OS included a user interface ( MMI) software stack, implementing a full user interface and middleware for 2G and 3G feature phones. It also integrated a range of third-party modules such as Java ME JVM from

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, mobile browser from Obigo,

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and

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stack from Mobile Messaging Factory, predictive text input from Nuance and CooTek, and handwriting recognition from Sinovoice.

Nokia Asha platform

Nokia's Asha Platform inherits capabilities from Smarterphone.

References

External links

smarterphone.com
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