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Fri, 30 May 2008 Thousands of Palm apps to leap to iPhone

Expect thousands of Palm applications to land on the iPhone and iPod touch

Jonny Evans

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Apple has a developer hit on its hands with the iPhone and iPod touch, with mobile developer StyleTap last night confirming plans that should bring “thousands” of applications to both devices.

StyleTap says it will introduce a version of StyleTap CrossPlatform for the iPhone and the iPod touch, which will instantly allow over 20,000 mobile applications to run on those devices.

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StyleTap CrossPlatform has successfully enabled developers of applications originally written for Palm OS devices to deploy their applications on the millions of handheld PDAs and smartphones running Microsoft Windows Mobile.

These same applications will soon be available to the hundreds of millions of users with smartphones based on the Symbian OS platform, with the impending release of StyleTap CrossPlatform for Symbian OS, currently in the beta testing cycle.

In February 2008, in order to determine the level of interest, StyleTap posted a video to Viddler and YouTube showing an experimental prototype of StyleTap CrossPlatform running existing mobile applications on an iPod touch. These videos have now been viewed more than 800,000 times.

"The iPhone is one of the hottest new mobile devices out there," said Gregory Sokoloff, CEO of StyleTap, "And the response to our video has convinced us that many, many consumers, and companies, will eagerly jump at the change to buy iPhone devices if they can continue to run their must-have applications."

Further information about the product, including how it will be marketed and sold, will be made available in early July 2008.

The company also announced that StyleTap personnel will be at WWDC 2008 to meet with application developers interested in learning more about StyleTap CrossPlatform.

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