Handango was an online store selling mobile apps for

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and

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s headquartered in

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History

Handango InHand was founded in 1999 by Randy Eisenman. It is an app store for finding, installing, and buying software for mobile devices. It was made available in 2003 for

Symbian Symbian is a discontinued mobile operating system A mobile operating system is an operating system for mobile phones, tablets, smartwatches, smartglasses, or other non-laptop personal mobile computing devices. While computers such as typic ...

UIQ UIQ (formerly known as User Interface Quartz) was a software platform based upon Symbian OS, created by UIQ Technology AB. It is a graphical user interface layer that provides additional components to the core operating system, to enable the deve ...

users, 2004 for

Windows Mobile Windows Mobile is a discontinued family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones and personal digital assistants. Its origin dated back to Windows CE in 1996, though Windows Mobile itself first appeared in 2000 as Pock ...

and Palm OS, 2005 for

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, and 2006 for

S60. Application downloads and purchases are completed directly on the device. Descriptions, ratings and screenshots are available for all applications. In 2010, PocketGear announced its acquisition of Handango. In 2011, PocketGear rebranded the company as Appia. Appia shifted focus to on-device

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branded store apps, shifting its model to become a white-label app marketplace platform. Consequently, both Handango's and PocketGear's websites were shut down in 2013.

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