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Availability of Motorola RhoElements brings modern web-based application development tools to the industry’s leader in industrial mobile computing

A leading provider of mission-critical communication products, software and services for enterprise and government customers, today announced the availability of MotorolaRhoElements, a state-of-the-art web-based application framework. It is designed to allow businesses to quickly and cost-effectively develop and deploy web-based applications on existing Motorola Windows Embedded Handheld (formerly known as Windows Mobile) and Windows Embedded Compact (Win-CE) mobile computers as well as Motorola’s recently announced ET1 Android-based enterprise tablet.

Motorola RhoElements is the first of several product releases targeted at developers within Motorola’s customer base and PartnerEmpower ecosystem. Leveraging Motorola’s widely deployed PocketBrowser product, a framework for web-based line-of-business applications, RhoElements provides an important new way to develop applications on existing Windows-based industrial mobile computers and offers a bridge for seamless application support on future mobile computing devices and operating systems.

Motorola also announced that it acquired Rhomobile on July 29, 2011. Motorola expects to announce additional cross-platform application development tools, enterprise integration components and cloud-based services for channel partners and customers leveraging Rhomobile’s product suite in the coming months.

RHOELEMENTS KEY FACTS 

• RhoElements provides a modern HTML5/advanced JavaScript/CSS application framework for high-performance web-based applications, enabling customers to transition from terminal emulation solutions or legacy browser-based applications to more powerful and user-friendly web-based applications.
• RhoElements allows enterprise customers and PartnerEmpower partners to leverage the productivity of web-based applications, which offer reduced application development, management and support costs.
• RhoElements allows developers to offer enterprise users applications with a consumer-style look and feel with consistency across device type, screen size and operating system.
• With support for HTML5 features such as application caching and web storage, developers can optimize network utilization and enable continuous operation when users temporarily lose connectivity.
• RhoElements exposes web developers to device-level application programming interfaces (APIs) to take advantage of the enterprise-rich features found in Motorola enterprise mobile computers.
• The first version of RhoElements will provide support for the Motorola enterprise tablet (ET1) running the Android™ operating system and Motorola mobile devices running Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5, Windows Embedded CE 5 and 6 and Windows Embedded Compact 7.
• RhoElements 1.0 is available immediately for download.