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• StyleTap iPhone experiment
  Just read your article regarding Apple's iPhone SDK and thought you might be interested in this.
  
  We're not ready to announce an official StyleTap for iPhone/Touch version yet, but we have done some experimentation with it. Here's a short video of what it looks like so far:
  
  http://www.viddler.com/styletap/videos/1
  
  What you are seeing is unmodified applications originally written for Palm OS running on an iPod Touch.
  
  It looks promising. This would bring the largest library of mobile applications to the iPhone/iPod Touch platform.
  
  This experimental version can run ARMlets and because of the screen size, uses hi-res (double density) bitmaps and fonts (the same resolution as Palm OS Treos).
  
  If Apple's security and application installation and distribution scheme isn't too restrictive, it looks like StyleTap will be able to run the same applications on the iPhone/Touch, Symbian and Windows Mobile/CE platforms. This should go a long way in helping developers deal with the mobile OS fragmentation problem.
  
  Regards,
  
  Bob Chew
  StyleTap Inc. In reply to: "Counting down to the iPhone development kit"

  February 26, 2008

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• 20,000+ applications for Android ?
  I totally agree with your point about the problem for application developers due to fragmentation of the cellphone operating system marketplace.
  
  In fact, the mission of StyleTap is to address this very problem by bringing the largest ecosystem of mobile applications (20,000+ originally written for Palm OS(R)) and developers to the other major cellphone/handheld operating systems.
  
  StyleTap currently offers a product for Windows Mobile/CE and has recently demoed the upcoming Symbian version at the Symbian show in London.
  
  While we are not yet ready to commit to a version for Android and depending on whether the upcoming SDK supports native Linux applications, StyleTap could go a long way in helping make Android a success.
  
  For more information on StyleTap, please see www.styletap.com

  November 8, 2007

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