Based on its SmartRendering technology, the ClairMail platform now supports a device-optimized version of the ClairMail mobile Web experience for BlackBerry and Android-based phones, such as the Curve, Storm, Pearl, Motorola Droid and Google’s Nexus One, with plans to support other devices as they are introduced to market.
Mark Schwanhausser, senior analyst in charge of multichannel financial services at Javelin Strategy & Research, said: “Smartphone owners are blazing the path for mobile banking and payments — they ‘get it’ and use such services habitually. But to capitalize on smartphone owners and establish themselves as mobile-banking innovators, financial institutions must quickly develop ways to specifically serve the leading smartphones, starting with the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android-based phones.”
Donald MacCormick, VP of product and engineering at ClairMail, said: “Our new highly optimized support for the BlackBerry and Android operating systems demonstrates our commitment to furthering mobile banking adoption amongst all smartphone users.
“With 15 million users, BlackBerry is the most popular smartphone operating system in the US, and Google’s new Android operating system has seen a surge of adoption in the past year. Each of these operating systems comprises millions of mobile users who, along with iPhone owners, can now take advantage of ClairMail’s best-in-breed mobile banking and SmartRendering technology.”
