16 April 2010

Peter Lindgren, CEO Of VISIARC
Talks About Mobile Documents Application

A couple of weeks ago, we briefly we briefly reported about the launch of Mobile Documents, a unique subscription-based, streaming email that provides streamed access to email, Mobile Documents is the first app to eliminate the inconvenience and data costs associated with downloading large emails and attachments.

Mobile Documents allows users to immediately access documents that are stored on remote servers, attach them and simply click send. Mobile Documents provides push notification and easy access to email and documents anytime, anywhere, saving users time and data costs.

Anyway, the good folks over at Symbian Foundation have managed to catch up with Peter Lindgren, CEO of VISIARC and get some words about Mobile Documents and what it was like launching at DEMO in partnership with Symbian.

Launching Mobile Documents together with Symbian at DEMO is something you can only dream of as an app developer. To be doing a live demo on stage in front of key press, analysts and industry players is just thrilling in itself. Added to this we were the sole company up on stage with a mobile phone connected straight into the AV system (via TV out).

I believe that this is the way many of us want the future to be – presenting live from your mobile, directly out of a PowerPoint attachment sitting in your inbox, being streamed over the network via the mobile phone and hitting the projector screen. It doesn’t get any more real than that. Plus, it added to the understanding of how robust our app and service really is, doing this in a congested network situation… live.

Now I’m just so excited about getting our stuff onto Symbian^3 devices and having it powered by a really fast piece of hardware that can output via HDMI. Then I’ll definitely leave my laptop in the office.

The result from the launch has been wide and deep press coverage. It feels good that Mobile Documents is now recognised as a solution to a real and fundamental problem that needed to be addressed and solved. But it’s still in beta and we do want more feedback so we can make it transform how everyone uses email on the go… permanently.

Funnily enough, the first in-depth Mobile Documents review from the All About Symbian team just happened to coincide with the launch. Richard Bloor’s closing remark, “I cannot see myself returning to the native Symbian messaging application for my emails”, is just so heart-warming for me as a developer.

Give Mobile Documents a go! All you have to do is point your Symbian phone’s web browser at m.mobiledocuments.com.

Peter Lindgren,