Benefon Integrates T9 Text Input Into the Benefon Q; Benefon Q Expands Finnish Phone Manufacturer's Growing Family of Innovative Wireless Products.Business/High Tech Editors GSM World Congress Booth B34 SEATTLE/CANNES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 2000 Tegic Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of America Online See AOL. , Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. ), today announced that Benefon will integrate Tegic's T9(R) Text Input software into its newest mobile phone, the Benefon Q. Benefon unveiled the phone today at the GSM World Congress show in Cannes, France. The Benefon Q, one of the first phones to feature dual-mode WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. and HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. functionality, will be available for GSM 900/1800 networks around the world this summer. The integration of T9 Text Input into the Benefon Q allows users to easily enter text and take full advantage of the phone's e-mail and Internet features. &uot;With its innovative features and design the Benefon Q is a true personal communication center for wireless phone users,&uot; said Tomi Raita rai·ta n. An Indian salad made with yogurt and chopped vegetables or fruits, such as cucumbers, spinach, or bananas. [Hindi r , director of sales and marketing, for Benefon. &uot;By integrating the industry's leading solution for quick and easy text entry, T9 Text Input allows mobile phone users to fully utilize the extensive features of the Benefon Q.&uot; &uot;Benefon continues to break new ground with the introduction of the Benefon Q and we are excited to be part of their latest wireless phone,&uot; said Don Davidge, vice president of sales and marketing for Tegic Communications. &uot;Benefon's growing line of T9-enabled products exhibits their commitment to providing superior products that extend the capabilities of a mobile phone.&uot; About the Benefon Q Weighing only 89 grams, the Benefon Q is one of the smallest GSM phones available today. The phone supports both WML (Wireless Markup Language) A tag-based language used in the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). WML is an XML document type allowing standard XML and HTML tools to be used to develop WML applications. It evolved from Openwave's HDML, but WML is not a superset of HDML. (WAP) and HTML content and services, giving users greater flexibility and access to Web-based content. In addition, the Benefon Q has an integral e-mail client Same as e-mail program. that enables access to regular e-mail services through standard Internet e-mail protocols. The Benefon Q's easy access to Internet services and strong design are supported by features such as dual-band operation, 14.4 kpbs data and fax, a personal organizer and vibrating alert A vibrating alert is on communications devices to notify the user of an incoming connection. They are particularly common on mobile phones and pagers and are usually used to supplement the ring tone. . About T9 Text Input By incorporating T9 Text Input into mobile communications products, companies are solving the fundamental problem of how to quickly and easily type and send messages. Although each key on a telephone keypad A telephone keypad is a keypad that appears on a “Touch Tone” telephone. It was standardised when the Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) system was introduced in the 1960s, and replaced the rotary dial. can be interpreted in multiple ways -- a single press on the &uot;5&uot; key could be &uot;J,&uot; &uot;K,&uot; or &uot;L&uot; -- T9 Text Input uses an internal database to automatically scan possible variations to determine the correct word. For example, entering the word &uot;call&uot; into a mobile phone will take just four key presses with T9 Text Input rather than ten key presses required by conventional &uot;multi-tap&uot; text entry. More than 40 different consumer electronics devices including, mobile phones, personal digital assistants and MP3 devices, have integrated T9 Text Input software. The software is available and in use in every major European and Asian language including Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Additional language support is continuously expanding. About Benefon Benefon is a leader in innovative wireless communication instruments, renowned for their unparalleled performance, professional quality and new Finnish design. Headquartered in Salo, the wireless industry center of Finland, Benefon has designed and manufactured wireless terminals for GSM and NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephone) An analog cellular phone system deployed in more than 40 countries in Europe. Launched in the Scandinavian countries in 1979, NMT was the first analog cellphone system. Both 450 MHz and 900 MHz versions are available. See cellular generations. systems since 1988. Additional information on Benefon, Benefon Q and other Benefon products is available at www.benefon.com. About Tegic Communications Tegic Communications was founded in 1995 to develop and market communication technologies for the telecommunications and computing industries and was acquired by America Online, Inc. (NYSE:AOL) in December 1999. Tegic Communications is headquartered in Seattle and has offices in Tokyo and Hong Kong. Tegic's flagship product is T9 Text Input, the leading alphabet-based and Chinese and Japanese character-based text input software. T9 Text Input technology has been licensed to major consumer electronics and communications equipment manufacturers representing more than 90 percent of annual wireless phone production worldwide. In addition to Benefon, current licensees include Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Bosch, Denso, Fujitsu, LG Information &Communications, Maxon, Memory Corporation, Mitsubishi, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , NeoPoint, Optimay, Panasonic, Philips, Qualcomm, Sagem, Samsung, Sanyo, Siemens, Sony, Telit and Voxson. The company has worldwide patents, both issued and pending, on T9 Text Input technology. For more information about Tegic Communications or T9 Text Input, call 206/343-7001, send e-mail to info@tegic.com, or visit the Company's Web site at www.tegic.com. Tegic is a trademark and T9 is a registered trademark of Tegic Communications. All other trademarks or registered trademarks belong to their respective holders. |
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