Sprint Open Developer Conference to Offer Innovation for Telecom Professionals

The Sprint (News - Alert) Open Developer Conference will deliver insights and support from mobile platforms like Android (News - Alert) and Palm webOS to Java ME, RIM and Windows Mobile. In addition, the conference will provide hands-on coding sessions, breakout sessions, event sponsor exhibits and networking opportunities for developers.  


The conference will address enterprise M2M business solutions, approaches to make developers more profitable and 4G technical/development resources. 

According to Len Barlik, vice president of Wireless and Wireline Services for Sprint, their objective with the conference is to create a forum for mobile app developers and those who develop apps for the desktop to get an idea of what’s possible for them using the tools that Sprint’s developer program provides.  

The keynotes addresses will focus on the relevance of Sprint’s open initiatives and what that means for developers. In addition, Android team members and technical subject matter experts from Google (News - Alert) will lead developers in an in-depth technical discussion. 

Open to the entire developer community this year, the conference is focused on product, platform and network capabilities that directly support developers' efforts to deploy in the open market. 

Sprint provides access to the APIs that enable developers to create rich, innovative applications. In addition, Sprint invests in technology and processes that enable developers to have access to important capabilities unique to the Sprint network and also to a number of APIs. 

With a Sprint device, full HTML browsing is available with Google as the Search provider. Customers can also experience personalized Web browsing with Sprint Web, and also choose to download name-brand apps and services from the Internet.