LAS VEGAS, Oct. 21, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Bitfone Corporation (www.bitfone.com), a leader in over-the-air (OTA) firmware update technology for mobile phones, today announced it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program, enabling Bitfone to expand and promote the value of OTA updates to the Symbian OS market. Bitfone demonstrated a fault-tolerant OTA update of a Symbian OS handset with their mProve(tm) solution at the 3GSM World Congress in early 2003.
"Bitfone is delivering technology today that increases the flexibility of mobile devices, enabling them to support software enhancements that were not available during their manufacture," said Jerry Panagrossi, vice president of U.S. operations for Symbian. "As a Platinum Partner, Bitfone brings its OTA firmware update solution, mProve, to the Symbian ecosystem, providing the opportunity for manufacturers and carriers to service smart phones based on Symbian OS while in the customers' hands."
"Symbian's leadership is driving demand for advanced mobile phone features that will dramatically improve the usability of smart phones," said Gene Wang, chairman and CEO of Bitfone. "With mProve on Symbian OS handsets, manufacturers and carriers can provide the latest software to their customers after market, increasing service adoption rates and customer loyalty through more easily upgradeable devices."
The Symbian Platinum Program brings together drivers from across the mobile phone industry where they can benefit from a range of commercial services, as well as privileged access to Symbian OS source code and a dedicated Partner Support team.
About Symbian
Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the global open industry standard operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones.
Symbian has licensed Symbian OS to the world's leading mobile phone manufacturers including Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Siemens and Sony Ericsson. Publicly announced products based on Symbian OS include the BenQ P30, Motorola A920 for 3, Samsung SGH-D700, Siemens SX-1, NTT DoCoMo FOMA F2102V and F2051 built by Fujitsu, Sony Ericsson P800 Smartphone, Nokia 9200 Communicator range as well as the 7650, 6600, 3650/3600, 3660/3620 and N-Gage.
Symbian has its global headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in the US and Asia. For further information about Symbian, please see www.symbian.com or email press@symbian.com.
About Bitfone Corporation
Bitfone Corporation provides innovative software solutions for mobile device management. Bitfone's mProve(tm) is the wireless industry's leading technology that updates a mobile phone's core embedded software over the air, in a secure and fault-tolerant manner. mProve offers wireless manufacturers and carriers significant cost savings in the areas of warranty, recall and customer service, and expedites the time to market for mobile phones. Bitfone is a global company headquartered in Laguna Niguel, California, with offices in China, Finland, Japan and Korea. Bitfone's investors include Nokia Venture Partners, St. Paul Venture Capital, 3i, Nexit Ventures, Motorola, Inc., Orange Ventures, KTB Ventures and CIR Ventures. For more information, please visit www.bitfone.com.