Magazine Declares Award-Winning Smartphone Is “Well Worth Its Price” Having “The Functionality Of Much More Expensive PDA Phones”
LA JOLLA, Calif., June 12, 2000 – NeoPoint, Inc., a market leader in developing state-of-the-art smartphones and information services, today announced that its award-winning NeoPoint 1000 smartphone has earned a 2000 “Editors’ Choice Award” from Communications Solutions Magazine, a leading telecommunications trade publication. The NeoPoint 1000 was selected for the honor after earning an “A” grade from the publication’s engineering team that conducted a thorough quality review of the smartphone.
“We are thrilled to be honored by Communications Solutions Magazine, a publication which prides itself on recommending products that will bring true value to its readers,” said William Son, chairman, CEO and president of NeoPoint. “This recognition is truly a testament to our phenomenal engineering team whose incredible talents and vision are invaluable, and have helped make this and other honors for the ‘smartphone done right’ a reality.”
The sleek, all-in-one NeoPoint 1000 offers all the benefits of a wireless phone, plus the added convenience of an 11-line screen, built-in PDA, wireless Internet access and the ability to quickly and easily send and receive e-mail wirelessly. The award-winning NeoPoint 1000 has received numerous accolades, including “Phone of the Year” by GQ Magazine and one of the “Best Products” of 1999 by CNET, among other honors.
In its review, Communications Solutions Magazine concluded that “the NeoPoint 1000 is more than just a cell phone…The NeoPoint 1000 phone has most of the functionality of much more expensive PDA phones. Its wireless Web access, e-mail, intuitive text entry, voice commands, large screen display, and excellent call quality are just a few of the many features that make the NeoPoint 1000 phone well worth its price.”
The smartphone can be purchased on-line at www.neopoint.com, and is currently available for $299.99 through Sprint PCS in the U.S. and for $349.00 (CDN) through Bell Mobility in Canada. Included in the price is the data cable and software needed to synchronize Contact, Schedule and To Do information between the smartphone and a PC.
The NeoPoint 1000’s built-in PDA holds up to 1,000 Contact, Schedule and To Do items. All of this information can be quickly and easily synchronized with popular PC-based organizers including ACT! 2000 (5.0)™, ACT! 3.0.8/4.0.2™, Microsoft Outlook ® 1997/1998/2000, Lotus Notes 4.5 and 4.6 ®, Lotus Organizer 97® and GoldMine 3.2 and 4.0 ®. (latest versions available via a free web download at www.neopoint.com).
In addition to praising the NeoPoint 1000 for its rich features, Communications Solutions Magazine also commended the smarts, simplicity and ease-of-use of the smartphone, noting that its wireless e-mail functionality was “very good” and that it “had no problems sending an e-mail message from the phone” especially utilizing T9 ®, an intuitive text entry technology that recognizes words as they are being tapped on the keypad.
The publication also noted it was easy to “access any number of sites on the Web,” and that the process of programming voice commands and hot keys were “simple.”
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