StyleTap™ Platform Runs Thousands of Palm OS® Applications on Windows Mobile™-based Pocket Pcs
Toronto, Canada, April 27, 2005 - StyleTap Inc., a leading innovator in software platforms for PDAs and smartphones, today announced the availability of StyleTap™ Platform for Windows Mobile™-based Pocket PCs. This exciting new product allows applications originally written for Palm OS® handhelds to run on Windows Mobile™-based PDAs. With more than 20,000 Palm OS® applications available – many of them free – users of Windows-based PDAs will now have an enormous range of applications to choose from."With this product, users who decide to migrate from a Palm OS® device can keep running their favorite applications. And for the first time, existing Windows Mobile™ PDA users can access the vast array of popular, proven Palm OS® applications," said Gregory Sokoloff, CEO and co-founder of StyleTap Inc. "This is the first of a family of StyleTap™ Platform products that will extend this capability to other handheld operating systems such as Symbian OS™. StyleTap™ Platform is based on the idea that the same application software should run on many different kinds of handhelds, regardless of operating system. This not only benefits handheld users, but also allows developers to target a much larger customer base."
StyleTap™ Platform is fast, compact and comes with everything you need to run most of the thousands of third-party applications written for Palm OS® 5.2 (and earlier) devices. With StyleTap™ Platform, these applications appear and operate on a Pocket PC just like native Windows Mobile™-based programs. You can even cut and paste between Palm OS®-based applications and native Windows Mobile-based applications on the same handheld device.
While running the latest applications at full speed, StyleTap™ Platform also incorporates unique backwards compatibility features to fully support older applications as well. One such feature allows both newer and older game applications to perform direct screen updates.
StyleTap™ Platform for Windows Mobile™-based Pocket PCs takes full advantage of the larger VGA screens available on the latest Windows Mobile™-based PDAs, but it runs just as well on older model devices.
The product also includes the StyleTap™ Application Installer, which allows you to easily install third-party Palm OS®-based applications from your desktop Windows® system onto your handheld.
A full-function preview version of StyleTap™ Platform for Windows Mobile™-based Pocket PCs is now available for a free 14-day trial. At the end of the trial, you can purchase the preview version for the special introductory price of US$29.95. This price includes a free upgrade to StyleTap™ Platform for Windows Mobile™-based Pocket PCs version 1.0 when it becomes available. For more information or to download the product, please visit www.styletap.com.
Media contact: Robert Chew (press@styletap.com) 416-504-1551.
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