Sprint Customers Soon to Get a More PC-Like Internet Experience Via OpenWeb
Sprint is set to become the first U.S. carrier to to launch the OpenWeb solution from Openwave Systems Inc., which will offer an enhanced mobile Web browsing experience on virtually all Web-capable Sprint phones.
OpenWeb will provide a more PC-like experience to the millions of Sprint customers accessing the Web each month. Site renderings will be faster and more user-friendly, even if they are not optimized for mobile devices. OpenWeb is designed to adapt the standard layout of a Web site and reconstruct it to properly fit the screen of the user's particular phone, providing automatic in-page navigation so users can reach the most important data from the Web site faster. According to Kevin Packingham, vice president of wireless product management for Sprint, "both new and existing customers can use their Sprint phones to search virtually any Web site and it will appear quickly and in a format they're used to seeing on their computer screens... By working with Openwave, we're making that Internet experience even more customer-friendly and useful by enhancing the ability to translate non-mobile sites onto the mobile phone. While other carriers are just beginning to talk about open ecosystem initiatives, Sprint is continuing its efforts to give customers an even better experience with the Internet that we have always allowed."
The enhancement will become available nationwide over the next few weeks and will be automatic for customers with data-enabled phones. No additional action will be required to use OpenWeb. Sprint also plans to launch additional mobile Web innovations in 2008 that will further enhance users' Internet browsing experience.
[via Sprint]
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