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is it a widget or an app?

Widgets and apps are similar objects aiming to enhance the multimedia capabilities of the mobile phones of our customers with some slight differences in terms of scope, technology and richness.


mobile widgets


These are mini-applications with a very simple user interface through which consumers can gain access to real-time, live data such as horoscopes, news, sports results, encyclopaedias, traffic alerts, weather reports...

They’re generally free for the consumer to download and
   use (with limited data fees).

A selection of widgets (between 20 to 30) is being made
   available by Orange on 80% of our signature devices via an
   icon on the Homescreen called Orange Widgets.

bullet They will also be able to click straight through to a wider
   catalogue which will include the Netvibes widgets.


mobile widgets

We’ve already started rolling-out Orange Widgets onto devices in the UK and France.
   There are 25 so far.

However, we’ll be offering the opportunity to 3rd parties very soon. Watch this space!


Have you taken a look at the opportunities for making your widget available through the Djinngo platform? If you haven’t already done so, you might want to take a look.


mobile applications


Applications or 'apps' are offered to consumers on a wide range of low-end, mid-end and high-end devices through the Orange App Shop client on the Homescreen (and through our mobile portal Orange World). They consist of downloadable games, e-books, calendars, maps, recipes, calculators, money converters and more.

Some are free but most are paid-for by the consumer.

There’s a regularly-updated selection (around 5000 games
    and apps) available to the consumer to select and use.

We’ve started rolling-out the Orange App Shop onto
   devices in the UK and France.

Most of the apps are developed by 3rd parties under their
    own brand. We also host some Orange apps too.



Take a look at the opportunities available to you through the Orange App Shop


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Orange partners with Netvibes to offer the world’s largest collection of mobile widgets

Orange and Netvibes announced a partnership to bring the world’s largest collection of mobile widgets to all types of mobile phone user across an extensive range of handsets. Netvibes’ huge catalogue of nearly 200,000 realtime widgets will be available on Orange widgets, a service featuring on 80% of handsets shipped by Orange. It will also be available on djinngo mobile, an Orange service open to any mobile phone user in the world. And soon, mobile widgets will be available to Orange customers in the recently launched Orange Application Shop.

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