4 questions to Mats Jacobson Ceo Scalado :
Current status (roadmap, progress, number of users): Scalado is providing it’s imaging SDK called CAPS (imaging application API with embedded engine and codec containing IPR´) to the top 5 mobile brands, excl Nokia (soon to be we hope). We have recently started shipping the 6th edition. We have also added several interesting technologies as additional imaging tools, such as camera sensor technologies (SPX Jpeg) and 3D graphics GUI for the application series which we are launching. Probably, we have now exceeded 50 camera phone models and 100 million units. We have also a unique IPR on online imaging that we start to present to the market soon.We are "the mobile imaging experts"
Can you tell us more about your service ?
We focus on the mobile phone ODM (OEM), but also a bit earlier in the value chain such as hardware/platform vendors and OS vendors.
What is your business model ?
Licensing, both from royalties and upfront money.
What are the projects, additional features you’re preparing ?
Applications ready to integrate. We have 5-10 new apps to launch soon.
What are the current users’ feedbacks, your learnings on the service’s usage ?
We need to provide both APIs as well as ready applications with UI.We are still providing the absolute leading edge performance but need to improve all the time.