AlphaCell Enables Powerful 3D Gaming on its M5 Cell-Phone with Leading Fathammer Engine.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 14, 2003 New opportunity for network operators to offer customers enhanced gaming environment Fathammer and AlphaCell Based in Cannes, France, AlphaCell is an Emblaze Group company and provider of advanced customizable rich media mobile handsets. It is in joint adventure with Zi Corporation (NASDAQ: ZICA; TSX: ZIC) a provider of intelligent interface solutions, in using eZiTap™ and eZiText® , an Emblaze em·blaze 1 tr.v. em·blazed, em·blaz·ing, em·blaz·es 1. To set on fire. 2. To cause to glow; light up. Group company (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :BLZ BLZ Bankleitzahl (German bank code) BLZ Belize (ISO Country code) BLZ Bladzijde (Dutch: page) BLZ Bayerische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildungsarbeit ), today announced a licensing agreement that will bring a console quality gaming experience to the AlphaCell M5 mobile handset The part of the telephone that contains the speaker and the microphone. On a desktop phone, the part you hold in your hand is the handset. On a cellphone, the entire phone is the handset. See multihandset cordless and headset. . The agreement means that any network operator working with AlphaCell will be able to offer its customers a smartphone A cellular telephone with information access. It provides digital voice service as well as any combination of e-mail, text messaging, pager, Web access, voice recognition, still and/or video camera, MP3, TV or video player and organizer (see PDA). providing an enhanced 3-D gaming experience. The AlphaCell M5 can be specifically adapted for entertainment and gaming. It features a large 65,000 color screen, a powerful 144Mhz processor and four programmable soft keys and micro-joystick located around the screen. The deal with Fathammer exploits this gaming capability and takes the mobile gaming experience to new levels. It enables game developers and publishers who choose to launch advanced mobile games on the M5 to use Fathammer's industry leading X-Forge(TM) 3D Game Engine Software Development Kit (SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). ). Optimised interfaces based on X-Forge will be embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. into the handset, maximizing the performance of rich-graphic games while guaranteeing a minimum memory footprint Memory footprint refers to the amount of main memory that a program uses or references while running. This includes all sorts of active memory regions like code, static data sections (both initialized and uninitialized), heap, as well as all the stacks, plus memory required to hold . As part of the deal, Fathammer is also offering full support to companies and publishers developing 3D games for the AlphaCell M5, in order to make the process more efficient. Furthermore, Fathammer's recently launched games division Vasara Games is providing AlphaCell with two exciting 3D games for M5. The games, Stuntcar Extreme(TM) and Geopod(TM), take advantage of the gaming-friendly design of the M5. The games can be tailored to include features that will generate traffic on wireless networks, allowing the new M5 handset, which will work on GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. networks worldwide, to offer the most up-to-date gaming, multimedia and personal information management software. Tsion Gonen, VP Marketing and Sales at AlphaCell, said: "Gaming is the next big thing for mobile phones. When you combine the Fathammer engine with the M5, a device specifically set up for an optimum gaming experience, you get an undeniably powerful product and user experience. We are talking proper gaming and playability on an unprecedented level." Fredrik Kekalainen, Fathammer's Chief Technology Officer, added: "We are excited to be working alongside AlphaCell to bring advanced gaming to the M5 smartphone. The design of the M5 and its powerful processor make it perfectly suited to playing console quality 3D games that really push the existing boundaries of mobile gaming." About X-Forge(TM) The X-Forge 3D Game Engine is a complete C++ based multi-platform game engine and SDK (Software Development Kit) for developing advanced 3D games for major mobile platforms. By using X-Forge, game developers can significantly reduce the development time and budget of their games as well as have instant and trouble-free access to all major mobile platforms. X-Forge is the result of 50 man years of work and represents the next generation of mobile gaming. About Fathammer Fathammer is the leading provider of advanced 3D graphics and game technologies for mobile devices. Fathammer provides its industry leading X-Forge 3D Game Engine to game publishers and developers as well as mobile device manufacturers. X-Forge Powered games bring console quality 3D gaming to a wide range of mobile devices. More information can be found at www.fathammer.com. About AlphaCell AlphaCell, an Emblaze group company, is a provider of fully tailored, advanced multimedia handsets, operating over 2.5G and 3G wireless networks. AlphaCell offers two innovative foundation rich-media handsets; the M5, serving the mid-range market and the M6 targeting premium hi-end customers. AlphaCell offers complete solutions that span the entire product development cycle, from requirements research, through detailed design and prototype testing, to manufacturing and final product delivery. For more information, please visit: www.alphacell.com About the Emblaze Group The Emblaze group of companies share a common vision to lead the market transformation to rich media personal communication. The group consists of four companies: Emblaze Systems, a leading provider of media centric end-to-end solutions (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. for wireless multimedia; Orca Interactive, a global market leader in the development of highly scalable solutions for commercial iTV services; Emblaze Semiconductor, a fabless IC company specialising in highly integrated digital multimedia chips for telecommunication telecommunication Communication between parties at a distance from one another. Modern telecommunication systems—capable of transmitting telephone, fax, data, radio, or television signals—can transmit large volumes of information over long distances. , consumer and security markets; and AlphaCell a wireless rich media smart phone design house. The Emblaze group has offices in China, Germany, Israel, Korea, Singapore, U.K. and the U.S.A., with over 400 employees worldwide. For more information, please visit: www.emblaze.com |
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