- Company to Deliver Mobile Multimedia Solutions to Palm Powered Phones
and Mobile Devices
- Demo of PacketVideo on a Palm Powered Device to be showcased at 3GSM
World Congress
CANNES, France, Feb. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 3GSM WORLD CONGRESS --
PalmSource, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSRC), provider of Palm OS(R), a leading operating
system powering next generation phones and mobile devices, and PacketVideo
Corporation, one of the world's leading supplier of embedded multimedia
software for mobile phones, today announced the availability of PacketVideo's
media player on the Palm OS platform. PacketVideo will provide its media
player for use in Palm Powered(TM) phones and mobile devices. The companies
also announced they will be demonstrating this technology on a Palm Powered
smartphone in the PalmSource booth located in Hall 4, Stand K5 in the Palais
des Festivals.
PacketVideo's advanced technology and embedded engineering expertise
enables hardware manufacturers to quickly and cost-effectively bring products
to market with customized multimedia capabilities. The combination of
PacketVideo's technology and the Palm OS platform will enable users to capture
and display video content on their Palm Powered mobile device.
"We are happy to offer our OEM handset customers the ability to use Palm
OS(R) in their PV-powered multimedia devices," said Joel Espelien, PacketVideo
VP of Strategy. "We look forward to commercial deployments of PV multimedia
solutions with Palm OS."
"PacketVideo is an industry recognized leader for its expertise in the
mobile multimedia solutions market," said David Limp, PalmSource senior vice
president of corporate and business strategy. "We believe that porting
PacketVideo's pvPlayer to the Palm OS platform will enable mobile media
manufacturers to quickly and cost-effectively bring products to market with
customized encoding, decoding, and 2-way video conferencing capabilities."
Customers interested in learning more about PacketVideo media player for
Palm OS should contact PacketVideo Corporation.
About PalmSource
PalmSource, Inc. is the company behind Palm OS(R), a leading operating
system powering mobile information devices. Approximately 38 million Palm
Powered handhelds and smartphones have been sold to date worldwide. Industry
leaders Aceeca, AlphaSmart, Fossil, Garmin, GSL, Kyocera, Lenovo, palmOne,
QTech, Samsung, Sony, Symbol Technologies and Tapwave license Palm OS to
create diverse mobile devices that meet unique customer needs. Palm OS has
given rise to a large community of users, enterprises, developers and
manufacturers, who together make up the Palm Powered Economy. More information
about PalmSource is available at http://www.palmsource.com,
http://www.palmsource.co.uk, http://www.palmsource.fr,
http://www.palmsource.de, http://www.palmsource.com/es and
http://www.palmsource.com.cn.
About PacketVideo
PacketVideo is the number one supplier of embedded multimedia
communications software for mobile phones with more than 60 design wins and 17
million phones shipped. The company's software enables mobile phones to take
digital pictures, record home movies, play back digital music and videos, and
make two-way videophone calls. PacketVideo's global leadership is proven by
unrivaled relationships with mobile operators, dominance in design wins, and
the millions of PacketVideo-powered multimedia phones in the market.
PacketVideo was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, Calif. More
information can be found at http://www.packetvideo.com.
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS: This press release
contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, as
well as assumptions that if they never materialize or prove incorrect, could
cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements include, without
limitation, statements regarding the Palm OS platform; the features, functions
and benefits of PacketVideo's media player and technology and their
availability on the Palm OS platform. The risks and uncertainties that could
cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements include, without limitation, PacketVideo's ability
to successfully port pvPlayer to the Palm OS platform; successful
implementation and operation of the features and function of PacketVideo's
media player and technology; the ability of mobile media manufacturers to
quickly and cost-effectively bring products to market with customized
encoding, decoding, and 2-way video conferencing capabilities; and other risks
and uncertainties contained in our public announcements, reports to
stockholders and other documents filed with and furnished to the Securities
and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
period ended May 28, 2004 and our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the
periods ended August 27, 2004 and November 26, 2004. All forward-looking
statements in this press release are based on information available to us as
of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-
looking statements.
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Related links:
http://www.palmsource.com
http://www.packetvideo.com http://www.palmsource.co.uk
http://www.palmsource.fr http://www.palmsource.de
http://www.palmsource.com/es http://www.palmsource.com.cn
CONTACT:
Uschi Joshua of PalmSource, Inc.,
+1-408-400-1923, or Uschi.Joshua@palmsource.com; or Dann Wilkens
of PacketVideo Corporation, +1-858-731-5454, or wilkens@pv.com
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