Phone.com Lights Up Wireless Internet With Color Microbrowser
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Hitachi Unveils First CDMA Color Phone Model C309H at Unwired Universe
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UNWIRED UNIVERSE 2000, SAN FRANCISCO, July 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Phone.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: PHCM), a leading provider of mobile Internet software, applications and services, today announced from the Unwired Universe conference its newly released UP.Browser(R) microbrowser v3.2 with support for color display. The UP.Browser v3.2 supports 8-bit color images for advanced displays using portable network graphics (PNG) format and allows users to select their own color preferences. The color microbrowser also supports the ability to download images, screen savers, and animation sequences that together provide a richer, friendlier user experience with exciting entertainment capabilities.
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Also from the Unwired Universe conference Hitachi, Ltd. unveiled the new wireless handset Model C309H, the first CDMA phone to use the UP.Browser microbrowser v3.2. The new model will be available in the fall.
"Color screens will greatly enhance the wireless Internet capabilities of our phones," said Masaki Kawase, general manager of Hitachi's Digital Media Products Division. "We are pleased with the exciting new innovations included in Phone.com's latest version of the UP.Browser microbrowser. With color capabilities, our operator customers will be able to provide new services that grab the user's attention, such as color image downloads."
"These important new features will enable DDI, DDI-cellular group and IDO, Hitachi and other UP.Browser microbrowser licensees to offer Japanese consumers exciting services that will drive increased adoption and higher traffic while enabling new content revenue opportunities," said Jeff Damir, group vice president of Phone.com's Device Products Group. "This project is indicative of our strategy to partner with our operator customers and leading handset vendors to rapidly innovate, and deliver new, compelling capabilities to the market."
"As the first operator to promote the color version of Phone.com's UP.Browser, DDI, DDI-cellular group and IDO is demonstrating our dedication to providing our subscribers with the newest advances in wireless Internet services," said Hiroshi Sakai, Board Director and General Manager, Mobile Communications Engineering Division of DDI. "We're excited about the new breed of services the color UP.Browser will allow us to offer consumers, including content and applications that Japanese consumers will find productive and entertaining. "
About Hitachi
Hitachi, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is one of the world's leading global electronics companies, with fiscal 1999 (ended March 31, 2000) consolidated sales of 8,001 billion yen ($75.5 billion*). The company manufactures and markets a wide range of products, including computers, semiconductors, consumer products and power and industrial equipment. For more information on Hitachi, Ltd., please visit Hitachi's Web site at hitachi.co.jp .
* At an exchange rate of 106 yen to the dollar.
About Phone.com
Phone.com, Inc. is a leading provider of software, applications, and services that enable the delivery of Internet-based information and voice services to mass-market wireless telephones. Using its software, wireless subscribers have access to Internet- and corporate intranet-based services, including email, news, stocks, weather, travel and sports. In addition, subscribers have access via their wireless telephones to network operators' intranet-based telephony services, which may include over-the-air activation, call management, billing history information, pricing plan subscription and voice message management. Phone.com is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California and has regional offices in Belfast, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Seoul and Tokyo. Visit phone.com for more information.
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements involving risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, Phone.com's limited operating history, potential fluctuations in Phone.com's operating results, uncertainties related to Phone.com's long sales cycle and reliance on a small number of customers, Phone.com's dependence on the acceptance of its products by network operators and wireless subscribers, Phone.com's ability to adequately address the rapidly-evolving market for delivery of Internet-based services through wireless telephones, the need to achieve widespread integration of Phone.com's browser in wireless telephones, competition from companies with substantially greater financial, technical, marketing and distribution resources and the ability of Phone.com to manage a complex set of engineering, marketing and distribution relationships. Further information regarding these and other risks are included in Phone.com's Form 10-Q for quarters ended September 30, 1999, December 31, 1999, and March 31, 2000, and in its prospectus dated November 16, 1999 and in its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
NOTE: Phone.com, the Phone.com logo and the family of terms carrying the "UP." prefix are trademarks of Phone.com, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
For more information please contact:
Phone.com, Inc.
Rowan Benecke
PR21, 415-369-8102
rowan-benecke@pr21.com
Phone.com (Europe) Limited
Kylie Trevitt
Text 100 Ltd.
44 (0) 181 242 4172
kyliet@text100.co.uk
Phone.com Japan K.K.
Masaaki Yamamoto
Phone.com Japan K.K.
81 3 5325 9703
masaaki@corp.phone.com
SOURCE Phone.com, Inc.
CO: Phone.com, Inc.; Hitachi, Ltd.
ST: California, Japan
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SU: PDT TDS
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