Photon Infotech, an IT company that develops e-business solutions with SOA, Open Source, Web 2.0 and Mobile technologies, reportedly has announced the company is going to establish centers of excellence in iPhone (News - Alert) Application Development.

 

Photon has already established its Mobile Lab, a research facility dedicated to mobile application development and testing, which has built a number of iPhone applications for its corporate as well as commercial technology clients, and theses centers of excellence will be an extension to this lab.

 

With the revolutionary advances made in mobile phone hardware and software, iPhone is being adopted at a growing rate even in corporate settings, with the iPhone sales being expected to hit $25 million in 2009.

 

Equipped with features such as a high-resolution color screen that presents a superb viewing experience, and doubles as a touchscreen that understands finger taps and gestures, the iPhone provides users with a host of other capabilities, such as a built-in accelerometer offering information about location, orientation, and altitude.

 

The sophisticated innovations deployed by Apple (News - Alert) in developing the iPhone, such as integrated media management, accelerated high resolution graphics and powerful desktop-class processor, redefine user expectations on the device, and add layers of development complexity, leaving most corporate developers to prefer pre-built rather than custom applications for it.

 

Photon plans to set up these centers of excellence around iPhone development, so that businesses of all sizes can participate in the iPhone revolution with custom applications specifically suited to their unique business situations.

 

Srinivas Balasubramanian, chairman and chief executive officer of Photon, said that the iPhone presents enormous opportunities for real innovations in how companies do business, but the very capabilities which make the user experience so unique also hinder truly novel development.

 

Balasubramainan said that Photon Infotech is committed to becoming the industry’s most trusted partner for delivering cutting-edge innovations by constantly upgrading its expertise to meet the increasing demands of today’s mobile world, and the company is rapidly becoming the iPhone developer of choice, right from creating real-time connectivity for a logistics company by putting an iPhone in every truck, to creating the richest iPhone experience for social computing enthusiasts.