Smarterphone

{{Infobox company

| name = Smarterphone

| type = Private,[http://w2.brreg.no/enhet/sok/detalj.jsp?orgnr=968304283 Company registration data] From the Norwegian register authority, in Norwegian owned by Nokia

| foundation = 1993[https://web.archive.org/web/20090422071455/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=34766657 Siving Egil Kvaleberg AS], Bloomberg

| location = Oslo, Norway

| fate =

| key_people = Egil Kvaleberg CEO

| industry = Software

| products = Mobile operating system and application suite

| revenue =

| num_employees = 30

| footnotes =

}}

Smarterphone was a Norwegian company making software for mobile phones, founded in 1993 as Kvaleberg AS before being renamed in December 2010.[http://w2.brreg.no/kunngjoring/hent_en.jsp?kid=20100000572344&sokeverdi=968304283 Name change record] from the Norwegian register authority

In June 2007, venture capital investor Ferd invested €2 million in the company.{{Citation

| title = Kvaleberg receives EUR 2 million in funding from Ferd Venture

| url = http://www.ferd.no/lang/en/show.do?page=12;22&articleid=1556

| journal = Ferd - Press Release 6 June 6, 2007

| accessdate = 2010-12-10

}}

By January 2010, further €3.6 million was invested.{{Citation

| title = Ferd calls on Smarterphone | url = http://realdeals.eu.com/venture_capital/ferd-calls-on-smarterphone

| journal = RealDeals Europe

| accessdate = 2011-01-27

}}

Nokia completed acquisition of Smarterphone by November 2011.{{Citation

| title = Nokia Acquires Norwegian Mobile OS Company Smarterphone

| url = https://techcrunch.com/2012/01/06/nokia-acquires-norwegian-mobile-os-company-smarterphone/

}}

The head office was in Oslo, Norway, but the company also had offices in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and the United States.

Smarterphone developed mobile software for handsets, with mobile phone OEMs, ODMs and chipset vendors as customers. The company also provided professional services in the above areas.

In 2008, then as Kvaleberg, the company joined the LiMo Foundation,{{cite web | url =https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2008/may/14/limofightsbackonlinuxfor | title = LiMo fights back on Linux for phones as Mozilla signs up | date = 2008-05-14 | work = The Guardian | accessdate = 2010-12-15}}

and at the 2009 Mobile World Congress they presented the Madrid handset, in cooperation with Compal Communications.{{cite press release

| url = http://www.limofoundation.org/zh/Press-Releases/limo-foundation-members-showcase-next-generation-handsets-toolkits-and-applications-at-mwc-2009.html

| title = LiMo Foundation Members Showcase Next-Generation Handsets, Toolkits, and Applications at MWC 2009

| publisher = LiMo Foundation

| date = February 16, 2009

| accessdate = 2010-12-10

}}