Picsel UK Ltd[1] is a software company that develops products for handheld devices such as mobile phones. Picsel produces Picsel Smart Office, and other Office suite software for viewing and editing documents on mobile devices. It has also developed other software such as web browsers and user interface development tools.
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Picsel's key strengths are in cross-platform compatibility, usability, graphic performance and office document compatibility.[2]
In 2008, Picsel won the Queen's Awards for Enterprise[3], and in 2003 won the European IST Grand Prize, as well as a stream of business-potential accolades such as the Red Herring Global 100 over the last ten years.
Over 300 million Picsel products have been sold. They have been particularly popular with the Korean OEMs Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, and many Japanese OEMs including Sharp, Kyocera, Fujitsu, Sony Ericsson, Casio Hitachi and others.
Picsel Smart Office is available through app stores for Apple, Android, Symbian, bada and other platforms, and has been well received.[2][4][5][6] .In March 2011 , an updated version 1.5 with cross platform support ( via Dropbox service) was made available [7].However, many sales are to OEMs who pre-install Picsel software to devices while manufacturing them. The Samsung SGH-D600 mobile phone was one of the best known devices on which Picsel products were bundled.
In February 2009, a patent lawsuit was filed against Apple Inc by Picsel (Research) Ltd[8], but did not reach court.
In July 2009, Picsel Technologies Ltd entered administration.[9][10][11] The company continued trading through this despite staff cut-backs, and after three months was bought back by the original senior management team. The new company, Picsel UK Ltd, continues to develop and sell similar products, employing many of the same staff.