Microsoft has unveiled a new application that brings some smartphone capabilities to feature phones. Microsoft OneApp provides access to mobile applications such as Facebook, Twitter, Windows Live Messenger, as well as other applications and games.
OneApp was designed from the ground up to enable mobile apps to be accessed by feature phones with limited memory and processing capability. For customers, OneApp appears on their phone as a single application where they can then easily access all of their mobile apps.
Microsoft OneApp only takes up 150Kb of memory and leverages cloud services to help offload processing and storage from the phone to the Internet.
Microsoft OneApp will launch with Blue Label Telecoms in South Africa. Other partners will be announced later. An SDK will also be released by the end of the year to allow developers to write their own OneApp applications using industry standards such as JavaScript and XML.