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In Q3, IBM will be shipping their Portal 7 Mobile theme (insert applause). This powerful theme takes advantage of the almost-ubiquitous used mobile web-kit. This compliments IBM's Mobile Portal Accelerator (MPA) which provides a much broader solution for multiple mobile device support. The Mobile Theme provides a lightweight toolkit for extending portals to Android, iPhone and Blackberry (web-kit enabled) phones.
When to use Mobile Theme vs MPA? It is pretty simple in my mind: when you have to support a very broad range of phones from your basic feature phone to the most complex web-kit smartphones and pads – MPA is your choice. The downfall of MPA is that you have very little customization/modification abilities. Otherwise, if your business drivers are to get acceptance with the iPhone/Android/Blackberry market (75-80% of all phones) the Mobile Theme is a pretty good choice. I should note that there are a few more options such as native app development and rich-web apps.
When to use Mobile Theme vs MPA? It is pretty simple in my mind: when you have to support a very broad range of phones from your basic feature phone to the most complex web-kit smartphones and pads – MPA is your choice. The downfall of MPA is that you have very little customization/modification abilities. Otherwise, if your business drivers are to get acceptance with the iPhone/Android/Blackberry market (75-80% of all phones) the Mobile Theme is a pretty good choice. I should note that there are a few more options such as native app development and rich-web apps.
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Am now looking to download a VMware image ( internal use only, I'm afraid ) in order to take a wee lookie-see.
2 comments:
You get to play with al the good stuff Dave ;)
Indeed, that's one of the reasons that I do what I do :-)
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