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ATRUA AND YULONG INTRODUCE WORLD'S FIRST
MOBILE PHONE EQUIPPED WITH INTELLIGENT TOUCH CONTROLS AT 3GSM WORLD CONGRESS
Next Generation User Input Improves Ease of Use for Advanced Applications and Data Services
Cannes, France, February 15, 2005 - At the
3GSM World Congress held this week in Cannes, Atrua Technologies and Yulong
announced that the companies are introducing the Yulong CoolPad 858F GSM
mobile phone featuring the Atrua Wings™ Intelligent Touch Control™
solution. The companies are showing how intelligent touch controls can
enhance a wide range of applications, such as games and multimedia applications,
and provide easy, rapid and secure one-touch access to mobile data services,
including automatic password entry.
“Atrua is pleased to partner with Yulong to demonstrate how Atrua
Wings’ rich and responsive user input capabilities complement and
enhance the extensive feature set of Yulong’s CoolPad series of
intelligent mobile terminals”, said Anthony Gioeli, president and
CEO of Atrua. “Enabling users to easily master the increasing number
of advanced applications, including games, multimedia applications and
data services, is critical with today’s feature-rich handsets.”
“Yulong welcomes our partnership with Atrua to further enhance
the capabilities and usability of our smartphone platform,” said
Li Ming, Vice General Manager and CTO of Yulong. “Yulong is committed
to providing advanced smartphones that deliver easy, convenient and secure
business capabilities while also enabling intuitive and flexible input
and control of entertainment-oriented applications. Atrua Wings is a natural
next step to move our platform to a new level. ”
Known as a leading innovator in smartphone design, Yulong provided the
world’s first dual-mode CDMA/GSM smartphone. Based in Shenzhen,
China, their offering ranges from their own smartphone product line to
a wide range of design capabilities which they offer to their leading
clients. Leveraging their own Linux-based Linuos smartphone architecture
design platform for a variety of communication protocols including GPRS/EDGE,
CDMA 2000 1X EV-DO, W-CDMA and TD-SCDMA, Yulong has gained an industry-wide
reputation for their technical excellence and ability to quickly develop
advanced, market leading handsets.
Atrua Wings™, Atrua’s flagship product line, provides a
compelling value proposition to both mobile phone makers and network operators
by providing advanced controls that improve the usability of mobile phones
through easy mastery of games, multimedia applications and mobile data
services. Utilizing the company’s proprietary intelligent touch
processing technology, Atrua Wings detects and converts intuitive finger
movements into rich and responsive control capabilities. Phones equipped
with Atrua Wings are enabled with one-touch commands that accelerate m-commerce
and other mobile transactions as well as advanced user controls that enhance
the mobile gaming experience and improve handset navigation.
About Yulong
Yulong, developing smart-phones built on its own intellectual property
since 2000, has mastered the key disciplines needed to provide complete
smart-phone technology. These include software architecture, hardware
and circuit design and development, industrial design, and other key technologies.
The company launched the LinuosCom platform for smart-phones and independently
developed the smart-phone operating system Linuos (provided by LinuosDesign).”
Tens of independent software vendors, carriers, and system integration
suppliers have adopted Yulong’s smart-phone platform to develop
customized applications that take advantage of Yulong’s intelligent
mobile terminal. A leading supplier for China Unicom, Yulong has been
identified by Deloitte as one of the top 500 fastest growing companies
in Asia for 2004. Yulong is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of China
Wireless Technologies Limited (HongKong Stock Code: 2369) For more information,
please visit www.yulong.com.
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