New York: Openstream, a provider of mobile internet infrastructure platform and applications, has launched its multi modal browser Cue-Me for Windows Mobile, Symbian and Blackberry phones. The company will soon make this technology available on iPhone devices also.

As mobile phones are becoming more powerful, several usability studies clearly show that people do not find the small keypad- mode of interaction convenient for accessing mobile applications.

"For a person on the move, getting the information quickly without cumbersome key-presses would be very important," says Raj Tumuluri, President and CEO, Openstream.

The pioneering work done at the Worldwide Web Consortium of which Openstream is a contributing member, has led to the development of a new paradigm of interaction for mobile users that combines voice, touch and key-presses.

Gerald McCobb, Technical Director at Openstream says, "Developers have been struggling for long due to not having a single platform and model that can help them develop applications for a variety of mobile-phones."
Openstream's Cue-me multimodal browser is a major-step in that direction, that defines the next leap in mobile interaction. Built on open standards, the browser makes multimodal mobile applications development easy for all the popular phone-platforms in the marketplace.

Dr.Deborah Dahl, Principal, Conversational Technologies and Chair of W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group says "This move is just the latest in the growing trend by Openstream and others to drive the speech and voice application business forward from its proprietary, vertical roots into the horizontal world of standards-based development."