sales founded 1999 headquarters irving tx key people alex bloom ceo revenue 5.5 est. 2007 sales mil . number of employees 50 website www.handango.com handango was one of the first online software stores to sell mobile apps for personal digital assistants pdas and smartphones . handango offered worldwide distribution support and e commerce services to its partners . company s customers include consumers software developers mobile operators and original equipment manufacturers . supported mobile devices include android devices palm handhelds windows mobile devices symbian os devices and blackberry devices . handango was founded in 1999 by randy eisenman . early founding employees of the company included eric matzinger james lowe andrew blake gabe bass will pinnell rusty butler lindsay rall laura rippy jason wells dustin brown and bob weber . handango was a pioneer of mobile software distribution and is widely credited with many firsts in the distribution of mobile apps including a self service developer management and reporting portal the business model of a 70 30 developer revenue split over the air distribution of software with palm the industry s first digital rights management deployed with nokia and the handango commerce engine that facilitated ecommerce on behalf of the software developer directly from their web site . handango inhand available since 2003 for symbian uiq 1 2 3 since 2004 for windows mobile 4 5 and palm os 6 7 since 2005 for blackberry 8 and since 2006 for symbian s60 9 10 is an on device application store for finding installing and buying software for your mobile device . application download and purchasing are completed directly on the device so sync with a computer is not necessary . description rating and screenshot are available for any application . 11 12 software for using handango inhand is available for free for palm os windows mobile symbian uiq & s60 blackberry android . 13 handango pionereed this on air business model for smartphones which achieved great success some years later with similar apple inc. s app store and google s android market . on february 23 2010 jud bowman of motricity a durham north carolina supplier of software and games for mobile phones acquired handango making pocketgear third behind apple inc. and google in the app market . while pocketgear remained in durham the company kept the handango offices in the dallas texas area . pocketgear.com llc was started in 1998 by nathan miller as a teenager and was later acquired by motricity . bowman bought back the smart phone application business in 2008 when motricity moved from durham to the seattle area . bowman remained a motricity investor . in february 2011 handango s new owner pocketgear inc. rebranded itself as appia 14 and shifted its focus to white label mobile app stores i.e. on device oem branded store apps . handango s traditional website at www.handango.com as well as www.pocketgear.com appear to have been taken offline no later than december 2013 . external links edit handango.com see also edit list of digital distribution platforms for mobile devices references edit handango inhand for sony ericsson p800 p900 p910 . 2003 10 01 . retrieved 2010 10 24 . handango inhand for sony ericsson p800 p900 p910 1.31 for symbian . 2003 09 30 . retrieved 2010 10 24 . install software directly to a smart phone with inhand . 2004 02 26 . retrieved 2010 10 24 . install software directly to a smart phone with inhand . 2004 02 26 . retrieved 2010 10 24 . handango launches download client for windows mobile . 2004 02 23 . retrieved 2010 10 24 . pdatoday handango ships palm os version of handango inhand . 2004 09 28 . retrieved 2010 10 24 . access handango ships palm os version of handango inhand . 2004 09 28 . retrieved 2010 10 24 . handango releases industry s first download client for blackberry . 2005 02 14 . retrieved 2010 10 24 . handango in hand catalog available for s60 . 2006 01 15 . retrieved 2010 10 24 . handango inhand for s60 for symbian . 2006 09 14 . retrieved 2010 10 24 . handango inhand faq . retrieved 2010 10 24 . handango inhand demo . retrieved 2010 10 24 . handango inhand home . retrieved 2010 10 24 . rao leena 2011 02 03 . pocketgear rebrands to appia ; 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