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Aricent Delivers Sprint's Exclusive One Click User Interface to Enhance Customer Experience.


PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California
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, Calif. -- Aricent(TM,)a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on the communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. , today announced its role in the joint development of the new Sprint One Click, a simple yet innovative user interface designed to offer Sprint customers instant access to the information and entertainment they want.

Aricent's global innovation arm frog frog, common name for an amphibian of the order Anura. Frogs are found all over the world, except in Antarctica. They require moisture and usually live in quiet freshwater or in the woods.  design, along with its communications applications and mobile device practice, partnered closely with Sprint to integrate strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. , front-end design, software development and engineering into one concurrent end-to-end process that brought One Click to market in less than 10 months. The resulting interface provides a consistent user experience across a range of Sprint's consumer-friendly wireless phones and adds significant value to customers.

With a customizable carousel design, One Click allows users to customize their phones to get one-touch access to the things they use the most including text messages, Email, navigation, Web access, Google, music, entertainment and more. Not only can users access what they need right away, they get to choose what and where it all goes. One Click is yet another example of how Sprint gives customers instant access to the right products, services and information delivered through the power and speed of the Now Network.

One Click is available initially on the Samsung Rant, Samsung Highnote, LG Lotus and Sanyo Eclipse.

"Our collaboration with Sprint allowed us to bring both innovation and usability to their customers," said Sanjay Dhawan, President and COO Aricent. "One Click is a clever mix of content and functionality that underscores Sprint's commitment to creating a more powerful and consistent user experience across all of their products."

Keywords & Tags: sprint, one click, aricent, celltop, handsets, content discovery, mobile widget Pronounced "wih-jit," for decades, the term has been a popular word for a generic "thing" when there is no real name for it. It is often used to describe examples of made-up products along with other fictitious names; for example, "10 widgets, 5 frabbits and 2 dingits. , on device portal, mobile user experience, mobile advertising, mobile sdk, software development kit, cdma, gsm, brew, uiOne, j2me, communications software (communications, software) communications software - Application programs, operating system components, and probably firmware, forming part of a communication system. These different software components might be classified according to the functions within the Open Systems  

About Aricent

Aricent is a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications. Aricent combines the leading innovation capabilities of frog design with unparalleled domain expertise in communications as a strategic supplier to the world's foremost infrastructure, application and service providers. The company's investors include Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (commonly referred to as KKR) is a New York City-based private equity firm that focuses primarily on late-stage leveraged buyouts. It was founded in 1976 by Jerome Kohlberg, Jr., and cousins Henry Kravis and George R.  & Co., Sequoia Capital Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972. The firm's partners include Don Valentine, Pierre Lamond, Michael Moritz, Doug Leone, Mike Goguen, Mark Stevens, Jim Goetz, Sameer Gandhi, Roelof Botha, and Mark Kvamme. , The Family Office and Flextronics International Ltd. For more information, visit www.aricent.com.
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