OpenKurir Launches OngkosKirim Application for BlackBerry

OngkosKirim, a service that offers price comparison from various delivery service companies, recently announced on OpenKurir blog about the launch of its mobile application for BlackBerry Phone and for BlackBerry PlayBook which is available for download for free from Blackberry App World. You may need to know that OngkosKirim is a product under OpenKurir.

OpenKurir itself is a local courier service which provides a wide range of services such as pick up-delivery for goods/food, goods purchasing, shuttle service (school student/employee), tour guides, etc. Initially, OpenKurir was planned to be launched on June 2011 but until December 2011, it wasn’t ready to launch due to operational and management issues. While waiting for OpenKurir to be launched, Revandi M. as its owner launched OngkosKirim as a product of OpenKurir.

A little flashback about OngkosKirim. This service once opened an exclusive API access for e-commerce players and developers who work on e-commerce to integrate into its service. One of the services that integrates OngkosKirim’s API is LakuBanget.com, an e-commerce platform on Facebook that we’ve discussed a while back.

For you who use BlackBerry and want to arrange for deliveries to certain destinations, this OngkosKirim mobile app will help you to compare shipping prices from various delivery service companies.

I recently had the opportunity to try OngkosKirim on a BlackBerry and a PlayBook. The apps on both devices are quite simple and to be able to run this application, make sure that your handset is connected to the internet.

In my opinion, with the availability of OngkosKirim mobile app, those who want to compare shipping fee before sending goods will benefit from having to go to every delivery service website first.

The blog post mentioned that PlayBook app will have auto suggest feature to determine the location/city of origin and the destination based on its internal database that provides data of 6007 location/city.

So, what is OpenKurir’s next plan in developing OngkosKirim? In the same post, it mentioned that the team is preparing a mobile web version that will be released in the near future. Following that, the company plans to release apps for other mobile platforms as well.