CSR Launches Bluetooth Profile Pack for Symbian Smartphones.CAMBRIDGE, England -- CSR PLC (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :CSR (1) (Customer Service Representative) A person who handles a customer's request regarding a bill, account changes or service or merchandise ordered. Agents in call centers are known as CSRs. See call center. ), the single-chip wireless systems company, today announced that its embedded Bluetooth software stack BCHS BCHS Baptist College of Health Sciences (Tennessee) BCHS Barron Collier High School (Naples, Florida) BCHS Bear Creek High School (Colorado) (BlueCore Host Software) is now available in a version optimised for the Symbian operating system. CSR can now provide a comprehensive range of up to 17 profiles for this operating system including DUN (Dial Up Networking) Audio Gateway, Handsfree, BIP BIP - An incorrect singular of BIPS. One billion instructions per second is 1 BIPS, not 1 BIP. , (Basic Image Printing), Basic printing profile, AVP AVP arginine vasopressin. , (Audio Visual Profile), CTP CTP (cytidine triphosphate): see cytosine. (1) (Computer-To-Plate) The production of printing plates directly from the computer without requiring film as an intermediate step. , (Cordless Telephony Profile), and PAN, (Personal Area Network) profile. CSR's BCHS for Symbian provides ODMs with a tailored Bluetooth host stack for smartphone applications. CSR's BCHS for Symbian reduces the risk and cost of adding Bluetooth to a Symbian smartphone by creating a single source solution with proven and integrated software and hardware. CSR's BCHS is the most complete Bluetooth software solution on the market, including 17 profiles and provides a means of introducing new functionality more quickly and at minimal cost. The product is developed to work with both UIQ UIQ User Interface IQ (smartphones) and Nokia Series 60 SDK's on version 7 of the Symbian OS today and migrating to Version 8 OS for 2005. John Halksworth, product marketing manager, CSR, commented, "We aim to offer ODMs who design smartphones with the Symbian operating system the same choice for designing with Bluetooth that engineers of many other applications enjoy. With 17 profiles to choose from, ODMs are able to offer a full complement of Bluetooth functionality to users, as well benefiting from CSR's trusted and robust hardware solution, BlueCore." Halksworth continued, " According to Ovum and IDC, the smartphone market is expected to increase six-fold over the next three years. CSR has recognised this projected growth and its BCHS for Symbian solution aims to simplify the process for ODMs by providing a Bluetooth software solution rich in functionality and low in cost." About CSR CSR PLC (LSE:CSR) is a leading provider of single-chip radio devices for Bluetooth wireless communication. CSR offers developed hardware/software packages based around BlueCore, a fully integrated 2.4 GHz radio, baseband and microcontroller. BlueCore features in 60 percent of all Bluetooth qualified end products and modules with international names such as Nokia, Dell, Panasonic, Audi, 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. , Toshiba and Sony already using BlueCore in their range of Bluetooth products. In June 2003, CSR launched the third generation BlueCore devices with full support for v1.2 of the Bluetooth specification. In February 2004, CSR floated on the London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. in the largest UK technology floatation in three years. CSR was the first company to launch Bluetooth enhanced data rate silicon when, in June 2004, CSR launched BlueCore4. CSR is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with offices in Richardson, Texas, USA; Tokyo, Japan; Seoul, Korea; Taipei, Taiwan and Aalborg, Denmark. More information can be found at www.csr.com and the partner web site www.btdesigner.com. More information about Bluetooth can be found on the SIG web site at www.bluetooth.com. |
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