Sonoa’s Mobile App Accelerator Looks To Cut Load Times By 90%

The day you got your brand new iPhone 3GS, Palm Pre, or Motorola Droid, there's a fair chance you thought your days of endless loading screens was behind you. After all, each of these comes equipped with a high-powered processor capable of running 3D games and multitasking. Yet the loading screens persist. Operating system shortcomings aside, one of the biggest culprits is actually out of your phone's hands entirely: the fault lies with backend server calls, as the apps you're using request data from online servers. Sonoa Systems, the company behind Apigee, thinks it has the answer. It has built a cloud based service designed to helps companies optimize the data being sent to their mobile apps. And it says it can make these load times up to ten times faster.


Sonoa's Mobile App Accelerator is based off of Amazon's EC2. Developers send data through Sonoa as a proxy, which is in turn routed to mobile apps requesting the data. The proxy service optomizes using advanced caching and by automatically paginating data. In other words the company says it can send data to phones "drip by drip", rather than as a large download that can be time consuming to fetch.