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hello...
Welcome to Orange Partner’s latest news for June.
We hope you find the update useful – do let us know your thoughts...
The Orange Partner team
news for June...
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word from the top: a June overview from Steve Glagow
May
seemed to pass by quickly, but it was not short of announcements in the
industry. The plethora of application shops being introduced is either
exciting or very boring. Everyone from Qualcom and Vodafone to Sun have
announced something. Who else is left? I suppose we will see what's
announced in June! As an industry though, we continue to focus on retention
and providing value add to our customers. If application shops offer that,
then the more the merrier.
We geared up for our extremely successful ‘5 apps in 5 days’ challenge this
past month, which culminates in the selection of applications at JavaOne
this week. We will demonstrate how we can maintain quality control, and
still be able to fast-track applications into our shop in a few short days.
We will highlight the selected applications in the July newsletter - I hope
one is yours!
We are in San Francisco this week at JavaOne. We have a booth here, and
we’re celebrating our 5th birthday. Orange Partner launched at Java One in
2004, so we have elected to have a big party here this year. Stop by the
booth to collect your invite. If you are in San Francisco for JavaOne, you
may also want to stop by our San Francisco developer center to make use of
the developer centre facilities there.
On May 8th, we held a very successful Orange Partner Camp China in early
May, sponsored by Sony Ericsson and the Symbian Foundation. Our focus was
on new content for the Orange Application Shop. Special thanks to our team
in Beijing who made this happen, and thanks to all of the attendees who
travelled far and wide to attend. For a summary of the event, please visit
the Orange Partner website.
And lastly, my PA, Sophie, is going on maternity leave for the next 12
months. A big congratulations are in order! We may even post pictures later
this year.
I hope to see you at our birthday party at JavaOne, or to hear from you
directly.
Best
regards,
Steve
Glagow
VP Orange Partner
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mobile apps: UK App
Shop increases promotion to consumers – are your apps benefiting?
The
Orange UK App Shop is now available to consumers directly via an “app shop”
icon on the Orange World homescreen. This means high visibility and profile
for your mobile apps...
find out more, see the icon,
and submit your English apps >
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mobile apps: Orange Belgium App Shop to
launch online very soon...
Orange
Belgium (Mobistar) customers will very soon be able to access the Belgium
Application Shop and download your mobile apps direct to their phones from
the Orange Belgium website.
Do you have French or Dutch mobile apps? Submit them now, to be included in
this new route to market.
find out more and submit
your French or Dutch apps >
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mobile apps: Orange
Spain App Shop to launch on WAP very soon...
The
Orange Spain Application Shop will be launching very soon on WAP via Orange
World for Spanish customers.
Orange
Spain will be promoting it heavily to ensure their customers are aware of
this new way to purchase applications – if you have Spanish apps, then
submit to us now to be included in this new Shop.
find out more and submit your Spanish apps >
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APIs: Personal
RichProfile API – access Orange France customers’ profile information
Using the
Personal Profile API, you can access Orange France customers’ profile
information (with their permission). We’ve now launched another similar
API, the Personal RichProfile API, which gives you access to even more
customer profile information, including photos, office information,
interests and much more...
find out more about the
Personal RichProfile API >
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Java: Java Verified,
and de-fragmentation guidelines to get your app to market, fast
Did you
know that we’re on the Java Verified board? We fully support what Java
Verified achieves at a Standards level – quality, tested applications.
Java Verified will be announcing some major changes at JavaOne – we can’t
tell you any more about these now, but watch for more on our website later
this week (or if you’re at JavaOne, make sure you follow up with the Java
Verified team directly!).
And we also support Java de-fragmentation - we want to help you get your
application to market as quickly as possible: it’s a waste of your time
developing multiple versions of the same application, unnecessarily.
We encourage you to read and use our de-fragmentation guidelines – created
in partnership with Sun, to help you develop applications that cope with
the existing device base, without the need for you to generate hundreds of
different versions.
Simply get your apps to market faster, without compromising on quality.
find out more about our
involvement with Java Verified, and download the de-fragmentation
guidelines >
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Orange Compatibility
testing: endorsing quality applications
Orange
Compatibility testing is undertaken to ensure your app works faultlessly
over the Orange network, on Orange devices.
We’re committed to providing quality applications to our customers. So we
insist all apps pass Orange Compatibility testing before being accepted for
sale to our customers – ensuring a faultless experience of buying and using
your apps. It’s in your interests to pass these tests.
find out more about Orange
Compatibility testing >
Once you’ve passed Orange Compatibility testing, you can apply to use the
“Orange Compatible” mark. You can use this in your own marketing as an
endorsement of quality, to show the outside world that we believe your
application functions properly on the Orange network.
find out more about the
“Orange Compatible” endorsement >
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developer
centres: test your apps on the Orange UK network, on Orange devices, around
the world
Orange
developer centres are a unique resource available to all our premium
members, free of charge. Visit the centres, and conduct ‘last mile’ app
testing, on the Orange UK 2G and 3G network, on Orange devices of your
choice. Plus there’s often a member of the Orange Partner team on hand,
should you need any help one-to-one.
There are currently 6 developer centres: Glasgow and Chiswick, UK; San
Francisco, New York and Boston in the US; and Beijing, China. And there are
new centres coming soon in Vancouver, Canada and also in Tel Aviv, Israel.
find out more and book your
place >
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devices: 4 new device
specs
Orange Vegas
Operating System: Proprietary OS
Screen Display: TFT Touchscreen, 256K colours; resolution: 240 x 320
pixels, 2.4 inches
Network Data Support: GPRS
download the full spec >
Samsung i8910 HD
Operating System: Symbian S60
Screen Display: AMOLED Touchscreen, 16M colours; resolution: 360 x 640
pixels, 3.7 inches
Network Data Support: GPRS; EDGE; 3G; HSDPA (7.2Mbps)
download the full spec >
Samsung i8910 HD
Operating System: LG Proprietary OS
Screen Display: TFT Touchscreen, 256K colours; resolution: 240 x 400
pixels, 3.0 inches
Network Data Support: GPRS; EDGE
download the full spec >
Samsung S8300
Operating System: Samsung Proprietary OS
Screen Display: AMOLED Touchscreen, 16M colours; resolution: 240 x 400
pixels, 2.8 inches
Network Data Support: GPRS; EDGE; 3G; HSDPA (7.2Mbps)
download the full spec >
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challenges:
“5 apps in 5 days” at JavaOne
Our
challenge is now underway: to get 5 apps to market, on 5 devices, in 5 days
at JavaOne.
Thanks to all those who entered – we had a terrific response with some
really innovative applications.
Now, the challenge is on to see if 5 apps will be fully tested and live in
the UK Shop by the end of the week... we’ll be publishing a bog with daily
activity, so you can follow it blow by blow!
find out more about the
challenge and follow activity in the blog >
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challenges:
StartUp Academy
7 April – 16
June, Paris
Orange
Partner is proud to support this exciting challenge, giving internet and
mobile start-ups the opportunity to submit their project to a jury of
industry experts.
Registrations have now closed, and experts are currently analysing the 95
projects submitted... good luck to all those involved!
We look forward to finding out more about the winners, who will be
announced 16th June...
find out more >
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meet
us: JavaOne
2-5 June, San
Francisco
5 years ago, Orange Partner launched at JavaOne...
If you’re in San Francisco this week, come and join our 5th birthday
celebrations – we’ll be on stand #610 in the Java Utopia area, with all
sorts of goodies!
You’ll be able to meet the team, find out the latest on the Application
Shop, plus check progress on our ‘5 apps in 5 days’ challenge – we’re
aiming to get 5 apps into the UK Application Shop in the 5 days of JavaOne,
from submission and testing through to live and for sale... you can keep up
to date with progress on our blog!
We’ll also have the latest news on an exciting announcement from Java
Verified...
find out more about what
we’re doing at JavaOne >
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meet
us: MobileWeb 2.0 Summit
3-4 June, London
Orange Partner are proud to be gold sponsors of this event, the 2nd
annual Mobile Web 2.0 Summit, which attracts an array of developers,
operators, publishers, advertisers and original equipment manufacturers.
You’ll have several opportunities to hear from and meet with us, in
addition to visiting our stand; we’re taking part in two roundtables:
“Mobile Operator 2.0” and “The development of the Ecosystem”, plus we’ll be
speaking on “Charting the future development of Operator Portal 2.0”.
We’re also on the judging panel in the Developers Den – where you can win
£5K if you get your pitch right... we look forward to hearing more about
your apps, ideas and products!
find out more and register >
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meet
us: “let’s create widgets using APIs with the Widget Editor” - webinar
14:00 (UK time)
16 June, 2009
We’ve
recently launched the Widget Editor, a tool allowing you to quickly and
easily create widgets for communication purposes by helping you to
integrate the Instant APIs into your web page or application.
Be
inspired: join the Instant API team for an online tutorial, and see just
how easy it can be to create widgets using APIs with the Widget Editor...
find out more and register >
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meet
us: Broadband World Forum
7-9 September, 2009
Paris
Orange
are the official host sponsor of this exciting 3-day event, bringing
together European telecommunication service providers, manufacturers and
vendors in the broadband industry. There are over 200 speakers, 100
exhibitors and more than 40 sessions and workshops – much to learn, and
many people to do business with!
Broadband
World Forum is a real peer-to-peer event – the subjects have been
hand-picked by industry experts and include mass market, enterprise,
software enablers, core access and broadband ecosystem evolutions.
We’re
offering a limited number of Orange Partner members FREE tickets to attend
this event, worth €2195 each!
find out more and register for your free place >
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