Mobile Distillery, which provides mobile application development technology, has released the latest version of its flagship product, Celsius V6. The company says it is aimed at meeting the needs of large corporations, who want to reach their customers or employees through mobile phones.
The latest version includes automatic porting to native code for the user interface on iPhone and Android, in addition to existing target platforms (BlackBerry, Java ME, Windows Mobile, Brew). This means that applications developed from a single source within Celsius can be automatically ported onto the iPhone and Android platforms, maintaining the look and feel of an iPhone or Android experience.
Celsius V6 also offers the capability to manage the portability of applications with a security module. Application developers can port mobile apps which connect to a range of security modules such as SIM, Secure Micro-SD cards, embedded secure elements or even external Bluetooth-connected secure elements. Secure elements are needed to protect privacy or value in applications such as healthcare, mobile payment, transport, identity/authentication and NFC applications. Different secure elements can be used, based on the type of phone and regional factors. These include the mobile phone operators role legally, and in the ecosystem.
Finally, Celsius V6 comes with a new rapid application development module to design multi-resolution screen layouts with simple drag and drop techniques. Mobile Distillery says that his feature will accelerate one of the most time-consuming aspects of application development and porting.
Celsius V6 allows corporations to concentrate on their applications rather than on mobile phone complexity and fragmentation, freeing them up to develop their go mobile strategy, says Mobile Distillery Chief Technical Officer, Razmig Sarkissian.
Celsius V6 is available now in beta version, with the full release scheduled for Q2 2010.