Electric Pocket Launches QuickStart for Sony Ericsson P800 Smartphone; P800 Users Now Can More Easily Find and Launch Their Favorite Applications.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WYE VALLEY
Electric Pocket Limited announces the launch of QuickStart for the Sony Ericsson For an arrangement of Sony Ericsson products, see list of Sony Ericsson products Sony Ericsson is a joint venture established in 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to make mobile phones. P800 smartphone. QuickStart will enable P800 users to quickly access their favorite applications by simply pressing a "HotKey" and choosing the application they wish to launch. QuickStart is designed as a time-saving application that enables users to avoid hunting through a lengthy file list to find and launch their most commonly accessed software products, including gaming, email, productivity, and multi-media applications, among others. The further benefit to QuickStart is that it enables P800 users to quickly and easily launch applications with one hand by pressing on the assigned HotKey, scrolling through their favorite applications with the jog wheel and selecting the desired software product they wish to launch. Users can also select applications to launch with their stylus. The fully customizable QuickStart is as simple to set-up as it is to operate. To configure which applications are included in the QuickStart menu, a Set-Up tool is placed on the P800 during installation. Users select Set-Up and follow directions to assign a hardware button as a HotKey and pick which applications they wish to be included in the QuickStart menu. Electric Pocket offers a number of applications for the smartphone and wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. industry. Most recently, the company launched a version of its enormously popular BugMe! reminder and note-taking application for the P800. Further offerings for smartphone users include enhancements to Pixer (MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) An enhanced transmission service that enables graphics, video clips and sound files to be transmitted via cellphones. Developed as part of the 3GPP project, MMS phones are generally backward compatible with SMS and EMS. picture messaging), Mailer (wireless email), and Ringo (a ringtone The audible sound made by a telephone to announce that a call is coming in. The traditional ringtone was in the 440-480 Hz range, but as cellphone usage grew, it became obvious that ringtone differentiation would become important. manager for the Handspring Treo Communicator series), plus the launch of its new TapDial quick-dial program for Palm OS smartphones. Both QuickStart and BugMe! for the P800 smartphone were developed by Degel Software Ltd., a company also engaged by ICQ ("I Seek You") A conferencing program for the Internet from Mirabilis, Tel Aviv, Israel (www.icq.com). It provides interactive chat, e-mail and file transfer and can alert you when someone on your predefined list has also come online. to port its messaging client. "The P800 is another outstanding multimedia smartphone based on the Symbian platform and provides us with exciting opportunities to bring our unique blend of innovative, practical and fun-to-use applications to a new type of user," said Iain Barclay, Electric Pocket's co-founder and chief product officer. QuickStart retails for $9.95 and a free trial is available from www.electricpocket.com. About Electric Pocket Limited Electric Pocket is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. offering leading-edge mobile and wireless computing applications and solutions from its base in Wye Valley, U.K. The Company's product portfolio includes wireless messaging solutions (MMS and email) and a rich set of OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and and consumer-focused applications for wireless PDAs and smartphones. Electric Pocket provides wireless solutions to global companies including Vodafone, Ericsson, Palm and Handspring. For more information, visit www.electricpocket.com. |
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