Redwood City, Calif. (June 2, 1999) ¾ Phone.com, Inc. (formerly Unwired Planet, Inc.) today announced that Hitachi, Ltd. of Japan has agreed to license the Phone.com™ UP.Browser™ microbrowser. Under the agreement, Hitachi's microbrowser license enables it to offer Internet and data features on its CDMA phones.
The first product shipped under this global agreement is the Hitachi C201H CDMA phone for the Japanese market. This is Hitachi's first Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)-compatible CDMA handset. Now available in Japan, the C201H phone features advanced Japanese text input capabilities and has Internet and data functionality. It weighs 82 grams and its dimensions are 42 mm width, 130 mm length, and 18 mm depth.
"Phone.com is pleased to be working with Hitachi to integrate our WAP-compatible microbrowser into their mobile phones," said Ben Linder, vice president of marketing for Phone.com. "Japan is a strategic market for Phone.com and our new relationship with Hitachi enables us to leverage each other's presence worldwide."
Phone.com's UP.Browser software is a WAP-compatible microbrowser residing in the ROM or flash memory of a wireless phone. It facilitates interaction between the user and server-based applications, enabling access to Internet, Email and corporate intranet applications.
Hitachi, Ltd. joins a list of more than 20 wireless phone manufacturers in North America, Europe, Korea and Japan with a license to employ the UP.Browser. Those which have publicly announced agreements with Phone.com include Alcatel, LG Information and Communications, Mitsubishi, QUALCOMM, Sagem, Samsung, Siemens, Panasonic and Sony. UP.Browser is currently being ported to over thirty distinct phone models for all major digital standards, including CDMA, GSM, PDC, PHS and TDMA.
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