SENDO AND PACKETVIDEO COOPERATE TO PROVIDE MOBILE OPERATORS WITH A UNIQUE MOBILE MULTIMEDIA PACKAGE

Sendo, the innovative global mobile phone manufacturer, and PacketVideo Corporation, the recognized leader in software for the delivery of rich media over today’s wireless networks, announced today that Sendo has selected PacketVideo’s leading mobile multimedia player software, as an application for its new Z100 GPRS Smartphone enabling mobile users to access advanced rich media applications such as video messaging, interactive games, and news or sports highlights.

The Z100 Multimedia Smartphone is Sendo’s first data phone; a new generation of color mobile phones that include advanced mobile Internet and personal information management (PIM) functionality. The Z100 is very small and light (99 grams) and is based on Microsoft’s mobile phone platform code-named “Stinger”. The GPRS tri-band phone operates on GSM 900, 1800 and 1900 networks across Europe, Asia and the Americas. It includes USB, IrDA and RS-232 connectivity and has hot-pluggable Multimedia Card and SD memory. The Smartphone features a 65,000-color TFT display, comparable in quality to a high-end laptop display, which complements PacketVideo’s multimedia capabilities. The Z100 will also be able to play MP3 and WMA audio files, as well as MPEG-4 video. A stereo headset can be included in the package.

“Our aim is to deliver on the needs of today’s mobile operators. Based on feedback from them on how we can help them to increase their revenues, we believe that services such as video will help drive consumer usage over the GSM and 2.5G networks,” said Hugh Brogan, chief executive officer of Sendo. “Together with PacketVideo, we can offer our mobile operator customers an integrated software services and phone package which offers rich mobile multimedia features over 2.5G networks.”

To deliver upon the promise of mobile multimedia, PacketVideo has developed the first commercially available end-to-end wireless multimedia solution designed to provide encoding, transmission and decoding services. PVPlatform ’s error-resilient technology recognizes and conceals the transmission errors that are prevalent in wireless networks, enabling mobile wireless devices to receive enhanced streaming video and audio at transmission speeds as low as 9.6 kbps. In addition, PVPlatform maintains interoperability with all major digital wireless telephony standards as well as next-generation wireless networks currently being developed.

The PVPlatform enables a variety of services for users ranging from video-based news and weather clips, remote web cam monitoring of their children at school or home surveillance, to music clips and sports highlight replays.

“The Sendo Z100 is a mobile phone that points the way to the future,” said Kathleen Peters, vice president of worldwide embedded solutions, sales and business development for PacketVideo. “This new Smartphone is the perfect complement to advanced mobile applications and services such as multimedia. Together with Sendo, we look forward to providing mobile operators with a solution for consumers who desire the latest in mobile connectivity.”


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