PocketGear Acquires Handango Creating World’s Largest Cross Platform Mobile App Store

Back in the day before smartphones had phones in them and were generically called PDAs, usually Palm Pilot or Pocket PC, two of the places that you could pick up software for them were PocketGear and Handango .  Well, PDAs got a lot smarter, we now call them BlackBerrys, iPhones, and Android devices, and we usually buy software from the branded stores run by the manufacturer of our device. PocketGear and Handango are still around, and in an effort to get back into the mobile application game, PocketGear has acquired Handango creating the worlds largest cross platform, open app store. PocketGear’s App Store supports 2,000+ mobile devices and every major OS platform, connecting consumers in 175+ countries with 140,000+ paid and free titles Durham, NC — February 23, 2010 — PocketGear, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Handango, the leading provider of smartphone applications globally, creating the world’s largest cross platform, open app store and content marketplace with a catalog of more than 140,000 paid and free titles that are available for discovery and download by the more than 4 billion consumers worldwide using Android©, Symbian OS©, BlackBerry©, Windows Mobile©, Palm©, Linux, and Java© powered mobile devices. PocketGear and Handango are the two largest independent app stores and combined to date have generated over $400 million in mobile application revenues from customers living in more than 175 countries and using over 2,000 unique mobile devices. With the acquisition, PocketGear’s mobile app marketplace has been expanded to connect more than 32,000 developers in the PocketGear Developer Program with over 40 PocketGear-powered storefront and distribution partners, including 4 of the world’s top 5 handset manufacturers, 4 of the top 5 mobile operators in the US, 3 of the top 10 mobile operators globally, and leading media and ecommerce companies including Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson, Research in Motion, Microsoft, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon Wireless.

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PocketGear Acquires Handango Creating World’s Largest Cross Platform Mobile App Store