Picsel UK Ltd is a software company that develops products for handheld devices such as mobile phone

Mobile phone

A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...

s. Picsel produces Picsel Smart Office, and other Office suite

Office suite

In computing, an office suite, sometimes called an office software suite or productivity suite is a collection of programs intended to be used by knowledge workers...

 software for viewing

File viewer

A file viewer is application software that presents the data stored in a computer file in a human-friendly form. The file contents are generally displayed on the screen, or they may be printed...

 and editing documents on mobile devices. It has also developed other software such as web browsers

Microbrowser

A mobile browser, also called a microbrowser, minibrowser, or wireless internet browser , is a web browser designed for use on a mobile device such as a mobile phone or PDA. Mobile browsers are optimized so as to display Web content most effectively for small screens on portable devices...

 and user interface

User interface

The user interface, in the industrial design field of human–machine interaction, is the space where interaction between humans and machines occurs. The goal of interaction between a human and a machine at the user interface is effective operation and control of the machine, and feedback from the...

 development tools.

Key features and Recognition

Picsel's key strengths are in cross-platform compatibility, usability, graphic performance and office document compatibility.

In 2008, Picsel won the Queen's Awards for Enterprise

Queen's Awards for Enterprise

The Queen's Awards for Enterprise is an awards programme for British businesses and other organizations who excel at international trade, innovation or sustainable development. They are the highest official UK awards for British businesses...

, and in 2003 won the European IST Grand Prize

European IST Grand Prize

The European Information Society Technologies Prize is the most distinguished award for groundbreaking products that represent the best of European innovation in Information Society Technologies...

, as well as a stream of business-potential accolades such as the Red Herring

Red Herring (magazine)

Red Herring was a technology business magazine, which flourished during the dot com boom, with global distribution and bureaus in Bangalore, Beijing, and Paris. It also sponsored conferences designed to bring venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and technologists together. But the magazine went into...

 Global 100 over the last ten years.

Product availability

Over 300 million Picsel products have been sold. They have been particularly popular with the Korean OEMs Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics is a South Korean multinational electronics and information technology company headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul...

 and LG Electronics

LG Electronics

LG Electronics is a global electronics and telecommunications company headquartered in Yeouido, Seoul, South Korea. The company operates its business through five divisions: mobile communications, home entertainment, home appliance, air conditioning and business solution...

, and many Japanese OEMs including Sharp

Sharp Corporation

is a Japanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products. Headquartered in Abeno-ku, Osaka, Japan, Sharp employs more than 55,580 people worldwide as of June 2011. The company was founded in September 1912 and takes its name from one of its founder's first...

, Kyocera

Kyocera

is a multinational manufacturer based in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded as in 1959 by Kazuo Inamori and renamed in 1982. The company has diversified its founding technology in ceramic materials through internal development as well as strategic mergers and acquisitions...

, Fujitsu

Fujitsu

is a Japanese multinational information technology equipment and services company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is the world's third-largest IT services provider measured by revenues....

, Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB is a joint venture established on October 1, 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to manufacture mobile phones....

, Casio Hitachi and others.

Picsel Smart Office is available through app stores for Apple, Android, Symbian, bada

Bada (operating system)

Bada is an operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. It is developed by the Samsung Electronics. Its name is derived from " ", meaning "ocean" or "sea" in Korean...

 and other platforms, and has been well received. .In March 2011 , an updated version 1.5 with cross platform support ( via Dropbox service) was made available .However, many sales are to OEM

OEM

OEM means the original manufacturer of a component for a product, which may be resold by another company.OEM may also refer to:-Computing:* OEM font, or OEM-US, the original character set of the IBM PC, circa 1981...

s who pre-install Picsel software to devices while manufacturing them. The Samsung SGH-D600

Samsung SGH-D600

The Samsung SGH-D600 is:* a quad-band GSM mobile phone with built-in handsfree function* a digital audio player with MP3 and AAC/AAC+ playback with stereo speakers and 3D stereo enhancement and 4 DSP effects...

mobile phone was one of the best known devices on which Picsel products were bundled.

Litigation

In February 2009, a patent lawsuit was filed against Apple Inc by Picsel (Research) Ltd, but did not reach court.