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WorldMate Travel Services Now Free for UIQ and Windows Mobile Smartphones.


Award-Winning Mobile Travel Tool Offers Road Warriors
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LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  -- WorldMate, Inc., a leading provider of travel services for mobile devices, announced today the release of the free version of WorldMate Professional for Symbian UIQ UIQ User Interface IQ (smartphones)  and Windows Mobile The Windows platform from Microsoft for handheld devices, including PDAs, cellphones and Portable Media Centers. See Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, Smartphone and Portable Media Center.  Standard smartphones, providing on-the-go professionals with a superior, award-winning resource at no charge. Serving as the 'Swiss Army Knife' for road warriors facing the unpredictabilities of travel, WorldMate empowers users with a mobile tool to combat challenges such as scheduling conflicts and flight delays.

Recognized as the only cross-platform travel services provider, WorldMate is the first mobile travel tool to offer a free service for UIQ and Windows Mobile devices. These platforms are used in leading vendors' phones including the Sony Ericsson For an arrangement of Sony Ericsson products, see list of Sony Ericsson products

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 Vox. WorldMate is a best-selling UIQ application and continues its progress with the Freemium business model The freemium business model works by offering basic services for free, while charging a premium for advanced or special features. The word freemium is a portmanteau created by combining the two aspects of the business model: free + premium[1]. .

WorldMate initially tested its Freemium pricing structure with its launch of an application for the Nokia S60 platform. The business model increased the company's revenues on this platform by several hundred percent. As a result, WorldMate has expanded its customer base while leveraging its thought and product leadership in the market through continued product advancements.

"We strive to provide advanced travel services superior in technological innovation, and apply the business models that will make them appealing to road warriors who want to travel light," said Nadav Gur, WorldMate CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "By providing free services (O.Eng. Law) such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc.

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 and charging for premium ones on a monthly basis, we are able to better leverage demands from end-users and business partners. We are deploying these pricing models across our product lines to encourage adoption of our service by all types of business travelers."

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 statistics from the US Bureau of Transportation, more than 27 percent of flights were delayed or cancelled in the US alone during the first half of 2007. This statistic increases WorldMate's value, making travel easier by providing comprehensive flight status and flight schedule services as well as world clocks, clothing size and currency converters. As a result, WorldMate saves harried travelers time and money, especially during the hectic holiday travel season.

WorldMate for the UIQ platform supports Sony Ericsson's M600, P990, W950, P1 and W960 devices, as well as Motorola's MOTO Z8. Free services include clocks, global weather, measurements, day/night map, currency converter and clothing size converter. Additional services offered for a paid subscription include flight status, flight schedule, area codes and an interactive packing list for $6.95 a month or $69.95 a year. The application for Windows Mobile smartphones supports Motorola's MOTO Q and HTC Vox and features clocks, weather, measurements, world map, currency converter and clothing size converter at no cost to users. Premium-tier memberships are provided at $3.95 a month or $39.95 a year, and include flight status and weather satellite imagery Satellite imagery consists of photographs of Earth or other planets made from artificial satellites. History
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WorldMate can be downloaded for the UIQ platform at www.mobimate.com/uiq or over-the-air at mobile.mobimate.com/uiq. For Windows Mobile smartphones, the application is available at www.mobimate.com/smartphone or over-the-air at mobile.mobimate.com/smartphone.

About WorldMate

A wholly-owned US subsidiary of Lod, Israel-based MobiMate Ltd., WorldMate is a leading provider of mobile travel-related services. Its best-selling software by the same name offers an easy-to-use application that automatically delivers valuable content and services to users' cell phones, turning their mobile devices into a personal travel assistant. Removing stress and paperwork from the travel experience while saving time and money, its host of features put flight status updates, flight schedules, weather, forecasts and currency information in subscribers' hands in real-time. Additional utilities include calculators and world clocks. WorldMate can be downloaded from: www.mobimate.com.

The WorldMate[R] product line is available on the J2ME (Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition) A version of Java 2 for cellphones, PDAs and consumer appliances. J2ME uses the K Virtual Machine (KVM), a specialized Java interpreter for devices with limited memory. , BlackBerry[R], Palm OS[R], all Microsoft Windows See Windows.

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 Mobile versions, Symbian UIQ, S60 and S80 Communicators and Desktop PC platforms. It is the only mobile application worldwide to have been a top-10 best seller on more than five platforms. Handset manufacturers including Nokia, Sony-Ericsson and Hewlett Packard bundle WorldMate products with their devices, and along with Palm, Symbian and others, have recognized the company's industry leadership. A seven-time recipient of the Handango Champion award in several categories, WorldMate has also received accolades from publications including Geek.com, Pocket PC Magazine, PC Magazine and ZDNet.

MobiMate and WorldMate are registered trademarks of MobiMate, Ltd. All other trade names and trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
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