Sprint to Launch Devices Based on Qualcomm's Brew Mobile Platform

Sprint, a provider of comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services, has reportedly unveiled its plan to expand its offerings by launching devices running Qualcomm’s Brew Mobile Platform.

 

Qualcomm (News - Alert) is a provider of wireless technology and services. The Brew Mobile Platform is a freely available mobile OS platform, which is an easy to use version of Brew and can support virtually any type of device available today to get powerful applications onto devices.

 

Qualcomm’s Brew MP supports Eclipse, an open-source development platform, through plug-ins that simplifies the creation of applications and extensions. This version lets application developers write applications to Brew MP in C, Flash, Lua, or TrigML. Features, such as multi-windowing will work across applications written in these languages. The platform is also said to better manage device memory.

 

This deal between Sprint (News - Alert) and Qualcomm for using Brew MP is aimed at adding Sprint’s industry-leading open approach with more options for customers.

 

“Sprint is committed to delivering the most compelling technology to our customers, through a variety of operating systems, and we now have the ability to uniquely integrate compelling features and services deep in the hardware with Brew MP,” said Brian Finnerty, director of device development for Sprint, in a statement. “By supporting both high-performance mobile Java and native applications on Brew MP, we can offer more advanced devices to an even broader set of Sprint customers.”

 

Sprint offers customers a variety of devices with multiple platforms that gives its customers the flexibility to do what they want, when they want with their Sprint phone. Through the Sprint Application Developer Program, developers can leverage the capabilities of these various platforms to create differentiated and personalized services.