Brightpoint Offers Leading Handango Smartphone Solutions; Companies collaborate to provide customers with best-selling mobile content.

PLAINFIELD, Ind. -- Brightpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ:CELL) announced today that its subsidiary, Brightpoint North America L.P. ("Brightpoint") has joined with Handango, the leading provider of mobile content, to offer Handango InHand and Handango's proven distribution platform, Handango AMPP, to mobile operators, independent dealers and agents, and retail stores in the United States.

Brightpoint will promote the distribution of Handango InHand for BlackBerry(R), Palm OS(R), Symbian OS(TM), Series 60 and Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Smartphone. The Handango InHand family of on-device clients enables mobile operators to deliver a robust content discovery and purchasing experience across all smartphones. Utilizing Handango InHand, operators can present a compelling, branded interface; increase content revenues and data traffic; and deliver a superior download experience with features such as one-click access, download safeguard and online backup.

Brightpoint will also market Handango's leading mobile software delivery platform Handango AMPP. Delivering more than 50,000 applications to millions of customers each month, Handango AMPP is a marketplace for smartphone customers to easily find, download and purchase digital content. Handango AMPP is the preferred content source for more than 100 partners and industry leaders worldwide.

For more information on how to license Handango InHand or Handango AMPP, please contact http://brightpoint.com. To learn more about Handango InHand and Handango AMPP, please visit http://corp.handango.com.

About Handango

Handango is the leading provider of mobile downloads bringing over 50,000 applications and 25,000 digital media titles to market through an extensive global distribution network that reaches millions of mobile customers. Handango's application management and provisioning platform, Handango AMPP, has been chosen as the mobile software delivery platform for Nokia, Motorola, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile, Orange SA, Sony Ericsson, Palm, Microsoft, HP, Sega Mobile, AOL and more than 100 others. For more information, visit http://corp.handango.com.

About Brightpoint

Brightpoint is one of the world's largest distributors of mobile phones. Brightpoint supports the global wireless telecommunications and data industry, providing quickly deployed, flexible and cost effective solutions. Brightpoint's innovative services include distribution, channel management, fulfillment, eBusiness solutions and other outsourced services that integrate seamlessly with its customers. Additional information about Brightpoint can be found on its website at www.brightpoint.com or by calling its toll-free Information and Investor Relations line at 877-IIR-CELL (877-447-2355).

Certain information in this press release may contain forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future performance of Brightpoint. These statements are only predictions and actual events or results may differ materially. Please refer to the documents the Company files, from time to time, with the Securities and Exchange Commission; specifically, the Company's most recent Form 10-K/A and Form 10-Q and the cautionary statements contained in Exhibit 99.1 thereto. These documents contain and identify important risk factors that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those contained in or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risk factors include, without limitation, the ability of both parties to perform under the contract and the right to terminate under the contract. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date these statements were made. Brightpoint undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release.