Arima selects Open-Plug for their feature phone projectsELIPS Suite will enable Arima to rapidly develop mass market EDGE phones across their projects, irrespective of future chipsets choice.
Sophia-Antipolis, France and Taipei, Taiwan ROC, April 21st, 2009 – Open-Plug, the specialist in software development environment for mass market phones and portable devices, today announced it has been selected by Arima to deliver its ELIPS Suite for the development of mass market phones.
ELIPS Suite is a comprehensive reference application suite integrating best of breed applications from leading ISVs enabling rapid development of multimedia touch-enabled mobile phones with appealing user interfaces and features like WAP, MMS, Java, MPEG4, MP3, SyncML, DRM, Complex Languages, Predictive Text inputs, etc. ELIPS Suite is currently available on most of the leading chipset platforms and can be easily ported on all new EDGE & 3G chipsets to be unveiled by chipset vendors, thus enabling the re-use of existing code and reducing significantly new handset development costs. ELIPS Suite is already shipped in millions of phones and has been certified by most of the major network operators worldwide.
“It was important for Arima to select a portable solution that helps us respond to our customers faster and re-use our software investment across hardware platforms.” said Arima’s Vice-President John Wang. “Open-Plug’s proven track record and their unique component technology convinced us that we will be developing faster a range of attractive and competitive device variants”
“Arima has a vision to bring quality products to their demanding customers and we are pleased they recognized and chose our ELIPS Suite solution to develop their future EDGE and 3G mobile phones.” said Eric Baissus, CEO of Open-Plug. “We believe that by leveraging our technologies and our portable application suite, Arima will deliver variants of their products faster at an unbeatable price point, leading to continued key design wins with their customers.”
The ELIPS Suite is based on a unique component technology, patented by Open-Plug, that simplifies all phases of mobile phone software development, integration, validation and deployment. It enables mobile operators and handset makers to create, update and customize their phones, pre and post-sales with features like factory-line customization and Dynamic Application Download.
About Arima Communications Corp.
Arima Communications was founded in August 1999 as a member of the Arima Group, specializing in the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of mobile communications products. The main products are multi-band GSM / GPRS, 3G/3.5G mobile phones and smart phones. Arima Communications' strategy is to integrate market research, product design, R&D, manufacturing, product certification, global logistics and after-sales service into a comprehensive solution for customers.
Arima Communications possesses solid R&D capability as well as the core technologies in wireless communications to ensure long-term competitive advantages. With the key technologies in wireless base band, radio frequency, communications protocol, user interfaces and application software, Arima Communications actively develops advanced technology and high quality products for 3G/3.5G phones and smart phones.
For more information about the company, please visit www.arimacomm.com.tw
About Open-Plug
Open-Plug creates and commercializes ELIPS, the first open application development environment designed for mass-market mobile phones. Already shipped in millions of devices, ELIPS enables software companies, handset makers and operators to create and deploy mobile applications, rich user interfaces and complete software solutions, in record time.
Founded in 2002, Open-Plug is a private company financed by leading international venture capital investors. Headquartered in France, the company also operates in Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C. Open-Plug is a member of the LiMo Foundation (Linux Mobile Foundation).
For more information, visit www.open-plug.com
For more information
Arima Press Contact:
Mr. Stephen Hung, Spokesman
Phone: +886-2-8227-5341
Open-Plug Press Contact
Loic Gonnet, Vice President Sales
Phone: +33 497 24 50 60 or
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