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Microsoft has unveiled a latest addition to its mobile offering. It’s called OneApp and it’s an application-service-platform that will bring popular services such as Facebook, Twitter and Windows Live Messenger to feature phone users. In that sense, we’re talking about a 150KB-heavy JavaME-based application, which in some way resembles other mobile widget platforms such as Nokia’s Widsets, which is now part of the Ovi Store.
Developers are invited to participate and make their own apps for OneApp. The SDK is expected to be available by the end of this year, when interested individuals and companies will be able to submit their JavaScript and XML-based apps.
Finally, right from the bat, Microsoft has found the launch partner. It’s South Africa’s Blue Label Telecoms which will offer OneApp as part of its “mibli” service that will include “more than a dozen” apps. OneApp will be available as a free download, and users will be only charged for data use…
More information about OneApp is available from a dedicated page on Microsoft’s website. Before going there, make sure to check out the OneApp demo video after the jump.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
