Smarterphone

Smarterphone
Company typePrivate,[1] owned by Nokia
IndustrySoftware
Founded1993[2]
HeadquartersOslo, Norway
Key people
Egil Kvaleberg CEO
ProductsMobile operating system and application suite
Number of employees
30

Smarterphone was a Norwegian company making software for mobile phones, founded in 1993 as Kvaleberg AS before being renamed in December 2010.[3] In June 2007, venture capital investor Ferd invested €2 million in the company.[4] By January 2010, further €3.6 million was invested.[5] Nokia completed acquisition of Smarterphone by November 2011.[6] The head office was in Oslo, Norway, but the company also had offices in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and the United States.

Smarterphone developed mobile software for handsets, with mobile phone OEMs, ODMs and chipset vendors as customers. The company also provided professional services in the above areas.

In 2008, then as Kvaleberg, the company joined the LiMo Foundation,[7] and at the 2009 Mobile World Congress they presented the Madrid handset, in cooperation with Compal Communications.[8]

  1. ^ Company registration data From the Norwegian register authority, in Norwegian
  2. ^ Siving Egil Kvaleberg AS, Bloomberg
  3. ^ Name change record from the Norwegian register authority
  4. ^ "Kvaleberg receives EUR 2 million in funding from Ferd Venture", Ferd - Press Release 6 June 6, 2007, retrieved 2010-12-10
  5. ^ "Ferd calls on Smarterphone", RealDeals Europe, retrieved 2011-01-27
  6. ^ Nokia Acquires Norwegian Mobile OS Company Smarterphone
  7. ^ "LiMo fights back on Linux for phones as Mozilla signs up". The Guardian. 2008-05-14. Retrieved 2010-12-15.
  8. ^ "LiMo Foundation Members Showcase Next-Generation Handsets, Toolkits, and Applications at MWC 2009" (Press release). LiMo Foundation. February 16, 2009. Retrieved 2010-12-10.