Rhodes 2.0 and Web 2.0 Launchpad

This was a big week for Rhomobile. On Tuesday morning we announced the public beta of Rhodes 2.0 at the Web 2.0 conference. Rhodes 2.0 has several major new features:

• streaming bidirectional High Definition audio and video (to and from the device)
• a “metadata framework” which lets software developers write apps that work with enterprise applications that do not have fixed schemas or database structures
• a much faster sync server
• our own comprehensive styling library that provides optimized interfaces on ALL smartphone devices.

Sign up for the beta today!

We were also very surprised and pleased to win the Web 2.0 Launchpad award yesterday.   This was given out by audience acclaim (a “Clap-O-Meter”) and seems to be validation that our message of “use your existing web development skills to write native apps” has resonance among web developers.     In particular, based on booth traffic and feedback, this audience of modern web developers seemed to really appreciate the industry’s only Model View Controller framework for smartphones.