Sprint's commitment to an open approach continues with the Sprint Developer SandboxSM, new open location platform enablers and upcoming open Sprint developer conference OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 01, 2009--
Continuing its leadership in employing an open strategy, Sprint (NYSE:S) announced today, from the JavaOne conference, its newest programs for application developers: -- Sprint Developer Sandbox will provide access to tools to let developers
quickly and easily create location-based services (LBS) applications,
messaging applications and more.
-- Three additional location aggregation providers, Alcatel-Lucent, LOC-AID
and Useful Networks, to help developers create new location-based
services for Sprint customers.
-- The ninth annual Sprint Application Developer Conference, Oct. 26-28,
2009, which, for the first time, will be open to all developers.
Sprint is the first U.S. carrier to offer the application developer community a free Developer Sandbox (http://developer.sprint.com/sandbox), open to all Sprint registered developers, that provides developers access to an expansive set of Sprint network, handset and product capabilities to use in creating applications.