We received all your mails. For all of you out there who have tested it, we encourage you to try out our new improved PEGASUS. And for those mails we received the past week requesting for PEGASUS trial, we decided to sweeten the deal. We are upping the ante and offer PEGASUS for FREE, with a catch… :-). We are throwing in a FREE webmail service (alwayssend.com) which we are launching next week, and a special build of PEGASUS would be given out FREE. This alwaysend-flavored PEGASUS would have all the functionalities and features of PEGASUS except that it only works with alwayssend.com email accounts. In short, we are giving away a free webmail account + PEGASUS that connects to this account for your alwaysend.com mails. How cool is that?

PEGASUS was conceived by a small but rather industrious bunch of coders from Tricast Solutions Ltd, a mobile software house based in San Diego, CA. Our goal was quite simple. Make a mobile email client that just totally rocks! That betters those that come pre-loaded with your phones. And one that doesn’t need a “brick”, high-end smartphones or PDA phones to run. Simplicity sells. We think it is high time someone start looking at offering a piece of easy, no hassle configuration, sexy email software that even our grandmothers know how to use :-). Mobile email is not just for the business executives or professional, there are hundreds of millions of people out there with web mail accounts, and even more J2ME phones out there in the market, but we feel most of today’s mobile mail software sucks, it is either the UI is so primitive and lacking, or the setup is complicated.

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PEGASUS got a new look today. We skinned the app, added a few cool features, revamped the popup menu, and voila… it looks so much polished now, sporting a very clean and “adaptive” user interface. By adaptive, we have incorporated little features in our software such that our menu options are not just context-sensitive, it also has “memory”, it learns your frequent keypress, and menu actions and present what is relevant. This “adaptive” menu feature would be available in the next release of PEGASUS. It is not rocket science, just simple ideas that would make a lot of difference to the users to enhance usability. “Code is poetry”.

Do you like the new Popup menu? And the new Composer Screen?

Now, we are happy to show you some glimpses of OMEGA, see the screencast below. OMEGA is shaping up well. It’s a rich Flash GUI SDK created specifically for MIDP development. We have also created our own unique Vector Graphics Rendering Engine. OMEGA development is still in progress.

Mika Lipponen, our fan and one of first the customers for PEGASUS has featured OMEGA rich UI in his blog. Click on the image below to watch the video.

Our stats show the visitorship has increased many folds and many people has emailed us enquiring on OMEGA, is it FLASH, FLASH-like, or J2ME? Hmm.. our good friend Mika Lipponen would tell you more at his blog… we decide to keep it under wrap for now. Apparently, someone is tracking this development.
And don’t forget to come back for a new-look, redesigned PEGASUS, which we would update this friday. The downloads we get for PEGASUS is just amazing.

We are advocates for small and simple software. Our software and technologies are crafted compact and simple-to-use. There is no secret sauce to our development methodology, we believe in empowering individual to create, to innovate, to take charge. And our formula involves early “paper” prototypes, fast iteration, lowering the cost of change, keeping the customer close, getting the right people, embracing constraints, agile development and transparency. In a nutshell, give people just enough to solve their own problems their own way. Then get out of their way….

We all like to think we have style, a certain flair - that our taste in clothing says a little something about us. Whatever social groups we have chosen to conform to, we still hope that there is something that sets us apart. Before we started Tricastmedia, we knew there are many mobile email vendors out there, the likes of VISTO, RIM, SnapperFish, IntelliSync, Movamail, Axismobile and Flurrymail. Many of these solutions are server-based, with the exception of SnapperFish. There is nothing wrong using a proxy/gateway-approach to poll the mail servers and “push” these mails to the clients. However, in their “over-zealous” attempt to build that all-powerful server/proxy, often times, you see their mail clients are very lacking in UI, not to mention usability. Much emphasis is done on the server, server aggregates mail data, compresses, optimises, and sends the content to the mail client via push… functional no question about that. But user interface on these solutions is often compromised. Just go download the product from their websites, you form your own judgement. And we think people love Blackberry not because they of the UI, but because of the superb integrated keypad. Having said that, we like to think PEGASUS is one email client with style and it is simple software that works!

Flash-like User Interface, Java Implementation! Project OMEGA is launching soon… check back a little.

The team had a meeting today to confirm the launch of the PRO version of PEGASUS. The launch date is still end May, and they would include the following features:

• Streaming Mail
• Attachment Viewer (PDF, WORD, EXCEL, PPT)
• PUSH

We have plant our flag on WINK site. We now have our little winkie (Tricastmedia MINI)… see image on right side bar. You would see our blog postings on this page as well as the micro site - Tricastmedia MINI.

Someone posted content from our newsletter to JavaLobby yesterday.

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We launched another 4 new phone models for PEGASUS today. They are Nokia N90, 6600, Sony Ericsson P900 (P910 is coming), v600, adding the total no. of phone supported to 15.

Other models to be launched next week are SE P910, w810, w900, S700, K700, Z520, Samsung D800, P300 (calculator phone), D500, T509, D520, Nokia 6230i, 8800, 3250, 6270, Motorola v635, v620, v1050, SLVR S7. Another 19 models to launch by end of next week, making it 34 in all.

More phone models would be added every week, including the new Sony Ericsson w810, Samsung’s Calculator-phone P300, D800 and many more. Watch this space.

phew… 2 months of hard work, finally, PEGASUS is launched. We have registered significant hits the last 2 days, and received a few calls and emails from VCs. Wow… this is amazing. Thank you all. We are excited, we feel motivated. There are more important product announcements coming up in the next few weeks, and we are also planning the launch of the next batch of phones… yeah… more phones coming. And once again, thanks for your very encouraging emails.

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…. Launched!

Greetings, World. Know it well. For it is this day that we launch PEGASUS, our baby, to the public.

The writing is on the wall…