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At mobalean we love to build innovative web services for Japan and the world. Our experience will help transform your ideas into successful online services.
At mobalean we love to build innovative web services for Japan and the world. Our experience will help transform your ideas into successful online services.
Mobalean is lead by Henri Servomaa, the original founder and mobile developer. At Mobalean we strive to develop services which are loved by our clients and users. By working in an agile manner, quickly adapting to changing requirements, we can deliver quickly and often.
Hailing from Finland, Henri has a long history with computers and the internet. With a background in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, he has worked in Japan as Software Developer and System Admin since 2001. In 2005, he joined a company to develop mobile sites for the Japanese market and has been involved in mobile ever since.
Cleve Lendon is a Canadian engineer who has been contracting for Mobalean. He came to Tokyo in 1994, and has lived here ever since. He has broad experience as a software developer, which includes development of mainframe software, Internet applications and mobile apps (Android and iOS). He is especially skilled at writing Java applications (vd. Simredo 4, Grafikilo 15). When not programming, Cleve enjoys improv acting and studying languages, such as Latin and Esperanto.
Our strength is crafting web services for both Japanese and international markets. We bring our technical and cultural experience to help you adapt your ideas into successful products.
We develop with Ruby on Rails and use the best agile practices and tools, such as test driven development and continuous integration to achieve quality.
We are the leading provider of technical expertise about the Japanese mobile web. Mobalean started when the smartphones were just appearing on the market. Our Keitai Web Technology Guide is a quick starting point for learning about the initial challenges of Japanese mobile development. Although the technology stacks have changed since the proliferation of iOS and Android, some of the idiosyncrasies remain. Most notably, the Japanese market is still very much dominated by the big three carriers: DoCoMo, au and Softbank. Developers can find more technical details in our Keitai-Dev Wiki.
Email address: info@mobalean.com
If you prefer to call us, feel free to do so under +81 (0)70-6251-7245
For users of Skype, please call mobalean
There is a rumour going around that new docomo handsets will support cookies and send referrers. Kimura.Memo has an article stating that he has received a request from a docomo user agent using a docomo IP address that sent the headers HTTP_COOKIE and HTTP_REFERER1. This means it is potentially an actual handset, however it could also be some sort of test on docomo's part.
In the past, docomo's handsets have not supported cookies. This has meant for a site to support sessions, a session id parameter had to be added to URLs. As the other major carriers, au and SoftBank, support cookies, this has caused developers some pain. However, if docomo's handsets will support cookies, this will make things easier.
Whether docomo's new handsets will actually support cookies remains to be seen. If only new handsets support cookies, this will probably change little in the short term, as most docomo handsets will still not support them, and developers will thus need to design for the old handsets as well. However, it would be a step in the right direction, and mean in the future, developers could start assuming all handsets support cookies, much like they are now doing with XHTML support.
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