Perfecto Mobile to Provide the GSMA's Mobile Innovation Members with Web Access to Real Mobile Handsets

The Perfecto Mobile Handset Cloud service will be used by the GSMA's Mobile Innovation members for testing mobile applications and promoting innovation in the mobile industry. 

Tel Aviv, Israel, February 2, 2009 - Perfecto Mobile, a leading provider of remote access and automated solutions for mobile handsets, today announced that it has partnered with the GSM Association (GSMA) to provide the GSMA’s Mobile Innovation (MI) members with ten hours of its Handset Cloud service, free of charge.

Using the Perfecto Mobile Handset Cloud service, GSMA’s MI members located anywhere in the world will be able to access, via the Internet, a comprehensive range of the latest mobile handsets. MI members can use the Perfecto Mobile handsets to develop, test, deploy and monitor their mobile applications and services. Furthermore, MI members can use the service to showcase and promote their latest mobile technology innovations to the mobile ecosystem, end-users and the business community. GSMA project teams and their partners will also use the Perfecto Mobile Handset Cloud service to test and demonstrate GSMA initiatives. MI members should go to http://www.mobileinnovation.org for more information and to access the service.

Perfecto Mobile will showcase its Handset Cloud service at the Innovation Zone, booth 39 at the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 16-19, 2009.

“We are delighted that the GSMA’s Mobile Innovation members will be able to take advantage of Perfecto Mobile’s Handset Cloud service” said Alex Sinclair, CTO of the GSMA. “This service will provide members with the ability to test new mobile applications and accelerate the roll-out of new innovative products and services,” he added. “The GSMA continues to actively foster innovation through the Mobile Innovation, a hub for young, small and medium players to connect with operators and the broader industry, and will work closely with Perfecto Mobile to promote the Handset Cloud service to members of the program.”

Perfecto Mobile enables mobile operators, developers, and content providers to ensure the quality of their products while significantly reducing time-to-market, costs and logistical efforts. Through Perfecto Mobile’s web-based user interface users can quickly and easily install their mobile applications onto a wide range of the latest handsets. Then, the user simply uses the phone in the same way a real-life user would to verify that the applications or services work properly and display correctly on the phone. Additionally, through the service, users can automate standard testing tasks and collaborate with each other for application performance verification, problem detection and troubleshooting, as well as to promote their applications to potential customers.
 
“We are excited to collaborate with the GSMA and support the goals of the Mobile Innovation, and we are committed to helping the GSMA and its members improve the efficiency and productivity of their development lifecycle and product commercialization processes,” said Eran Yaniv, CEO of Perfecto Mobile. “In addition, as part of our ongoing relationship with the GSMA we will support the latest handsets and technologies as soon as they are released onto the market, and develop new solutions that will address the MI community’s needs.”

The GSMA is the global trade body for the mobile industry. Spanning 219 countries, the organization unites more than 750 of the world’s mobile operators, as well as 200 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem. The GSMA’s Mobile Innovation encourages breakthrough technology, applications and services in the mobile industry by bringing together smaller companies developing innovative mobile products and solutions, with industry investors from leading venture capital firms and senior figures from mobile operators. 
 

About Perfecto Mobile

Perfecto Mobile significantly reduces the complexity and cost of developing, deploying and maintaining mobile applications and content across devices, networks and geographies. Founded in 2006, Perfecto Mobile’s headquarters are located in Petach Tivkva, Israel, and the company has service sites in the UK and the US. Additional sites will be introduced in 2009.  For more information and a free trial please visit www.perfectomobile.com.