NeoPoint 1000(TM) -- The Highly Acclaimed Digital
Wireless Smartphone From NeoPoint Selected By Sprint PCS to Deliver
Wireless Data Services Nationwide
Sprint PCS Wireless Data Services to be Available on NeoPoint 1000(TM)
LA JOLLA, Calif., Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- NeoPoint, Inc., a highly dynamic wireless technology firm that has created one
of the most innovative and easy-to-use wireless communication products of 1999, the NeoPoint 1000 smartphone, today
announced an agreement valued at up to $90 million with Sprint PCS, the nation's largest all-digital, nationwide PCS provider
serving nearly 4 million subscribers. NeoPoint will supply Sprint PCS with its acclaimed digital wireless smartphone, to be
marketed as the Sprint PCS Phone NP1000. The Sprint PCS Phone NP1000 is expected to be available nationwide in
September.
''We are pleased to announce this exciting offer with NeoPoint, Inc. to bring Sprint PCS customers nationwide the new Sprint
PCS Phone NP1000,'' said Andrew Sukawaty, Sprint PCS president. ''The Sprint PCS Phone NP1000 opens up a whole
new simple 'pocket-sized' world of information access to a person on the move. It offers clear voice capabilities as well as the
ability to send and receive electronic mail, access the Internet, and manage personal schedules. This handset is breakthrough in
its user-friendly and simple design. Combined with Sprint PCS Wireless Data services, the Sprint PCS Phone NP1000 is most
certainly one of the year's 'must have' devices and demonstrates that wireless information/web access is here nationwide.''
''Sprint PCS' advanced wireless services and technologies are well-aligned with our goals and take advantage of the
capabilities we have built into the Sprint PCS Phone NP1000,'' said William Son, CEO and president of NeoPoint, Inc.
''NeoPoint is continually striving to provide simple, easy-to-use CDMA wireless handsets that combine voice, the ability to
access Internet and information services to meet the ever-changing needs of the mass market. This is just the first glimpse of our
continued commitment to delivering the most innovative smartphones to global wireless operators and their subscribers. We
look forward to a long-term relationship with Sprint PCS to support its cutting-edge wireless data services for their subscribers
across the United States.''
''The Sprint PCS Phone NP1000, combined with the Sprint PCS nationwide all-digital wireless network, is the one of the first
feature-rich, compact, affordable smartphones that provides voice clarity, e-mail, ability to access the Internet, and personal
information management functions in a simple, easy-to-carry, easy-to-use handset,'' said Sanford Weisman, senior vice
president of sales and marketing for NeoPoint.
Weighing in at only 6.4 oz., the smartphone's dimensions are 5.5 x 2.0 x 1.0 inches, fit-in-the-pocket dimensions similar to
many popular wireless phones in use today. Unique to the Sprint PCS Phone NP1000 is a large, 11-line LCD, which can
display as many as 10 times the number of characters as today's wireless phones. The Sprint PCS Phone NP1000's built-in
personal information manager (PIM) can hold up to 1,000 contact names and numbers, schedule and to-do list for the next
year. All of this information can be easily synchronized with an array of PC-based organizers including Microsoft Outlook®,
ACT!(TM), and Lotus Organizer® via SoftSync Plus(TM) software, which will be included with the purchase of the Sprint
PCS Phone NP1000. An advanced voice-command function also provides users with the ability to speed dial pre-set numbers,
as well as launch additional applications such as the Internet or calendar, with a simple verbal prompt. Simply say ''Internet'' for
example, and you're on the web via Sprint PCS Wireless Data services. And by using the included data cable, Sprint PCS
subscribers can use the Sprint PCS Phone NP1000 as a wireless modem to send and receive data from their laptops. Of
course, the phone contains all of the value-added functions that today's consumers have grown accustomed to including call
timers, voicemail, three-way calling, caller ID, flip call answer, and multiple ringer settings.
About Sprint PCS
Sprint PCS operates the largest 100 percent digital, 100 percent PCS nationwide wireless network in the United States,
already serving the majority of the nation's metropolitan areas including more than 4,000 cities and communities across the
country. Sprint PCS has licensed PCS coverage of nearly 270 million people in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin
Islands. For more information, visit the Sprint PCS web site at sprintpcs.com . Sprint is a wholly owned tracking
group of Sprint Corporation (NYSE: PCS - news) trading on NYSE under the symbol ''PCS.'' Sprint PCS is a global
communications company at the forefront of integrating long distance, local, and wireless communications services and of the
world's largest carriers of Internet traffic. Sprint built and operates the Unites States' only nationwide all-digital, fiber optic
network and is a leader in advanced data communications services. Sprint has $17 billion in annual revenues and serves more
than 17 million business and residential customers.
About NeoPoint, Inc.
NeoPoint, Inc. is the market leader in developing state-of-the art smartphones and information services that optimize the way
wireless users access the people and information resources essential to them. In addition to its consumer products, the firm's
Network Engineering Services group provides sophisticated RF engineering services and analytical tools to leading wireless
equipment vendors, carriers and infrastructure manufacturers worldwide. Based in La Jolla, Calif., NeoPoint is a privately held
company that also operates an office in Seoul, Korea. For more information, visit NeoPoint's web site at
neopoint.com .
NeoPoint and SoftSync Plus are trademarks of NeoPoint, Inc. Outlook and Microsoft are registered trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation Lotus Organizer is a registered trademark of Lotus Development Corporation ACT! is a registered trademark of
Symantec Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners
SOURCE: Sprint PCS
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