We heard many applications for BlackBerry smartphones, IOS, Android in our daily life. What about applications for feature phones, Java (J2ME) based mobile phones with the price below 2 million rupiah? Can the feature phone users who have limited budget enjoy the “luxury” to access the Internet and use a popular applications services variety?
Previously, Snaptu an Israeli developer has targeted such segments. Snaptu product was quite popular until it was acquired and being shut down by Facebook. Now we have Blaast. Blaast is originated from Finland and they intended to increase the users’ interest for their local application. This goal was warmly welcomed by XL Axiata as their operator partner. Thus XL Blaast is officially announced today. We have covered Blaast for several times, from the introduction to application development contest that have been conducted some time ago.
CEO and Co-Founder Blaast, Joonas Hjelt along with XL Director of Technology, Content & New Business, Dian Siswarini, introduced XL Blaast service to public in Kempinsky Grand Ballroom. Unlike the service that we’ve already known, Blaast isn’t just an application. Blaast is a “platform in the platform”. We can use Blaast to access popular applications like Facebook and Twitter, playing light games, and read the news in various media services – including DailySocial. All summed up in one service platform that store all the applications in cloud.
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