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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Synergenix Interactive Joins Symbian Platinum Program
Stockholm, Sweden – January 7, 2003
Synergenix Interactive announced today that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the emerging market for Symbian OS™ smartphones. As a Platinum Partner, Synergenix is extending its mobile entertainment solution, mophun™, to the Symbian ecosystem. Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the global industry standard operating system for advanced mobile phones, to the world’s leading handset manufacturers, which account for over 80 percent of worldwide mobile phone sales.
Synergenix is a key provider in mobile gaming. The mophun™ platform is built on established standards and ensure optimal gaming experiences on both mobile phones and consumer electronics in general, including not only an accelerated graphics engine but also support for stereo sound and any communication bearer including GPRS, Edge, 3G, Bluetooth and SMS. The Digital Rights Management (DRM) module of mophun protects both games and other content types such as ring tones and logos, while at the same time supporting innovative business models such as pay-per-play, credit based gaming and subscription models.
By becoming a Symbian Platinum Partner, Synergenix ensures the close integration of mophun with smartphones using Symbian OS, providing a ready to use plug-in for handset manufacturers and mobile network operators, effectively minimizing the effort and cost needed to provide state of the art gaming, including real time multiplayer gaming. Included in mophun™ for Symbian OS is also support for user friendly game distribution and the mobile industry’s strongest anti piracy solution.
"This partnership reflects our commitment to the mobile gaming market and our intent to build upon our mobile strategy," says Martin Forsling, CEO of Synergenix. "By becoming a Symbian Platinum Partner, we can further expand and optimize our mophun product for Symbian OS, as well as strengthen our relationships with wireless users, application developers, handset manufacturers and carriers.”
Mr. Forsling continues: “Mobile gaming evolves rapidly with games continuously becoming more complex. mophun shields the game developer from the differences of various platforms, offering a uniform interface to all features. With mophun for Symbian OS we have created a complete offering satisfying the needs of professional game developers, simplifying the creation of advanced games for Symbian OS.”
“More and more people are downloading games to smartphones and playing them whilst on the move, creating a thriving market for tools to help developers create titles,” said Bill Pinnell, Product Strategist, Multimedia and Games, Symbian. “Fit for purpose gaming platforms such as Synergenix’s mophun reduce the time to market and project complexity for developers of advanced games and Symbian is excited to have Synergenix join the Symbian Platinum Program and bring its platform tools to Symbian OS developers.”
Synergenix Interactive
Synergenix Interactive AB is a key enabler in the mobile gaming industry. Its software based gaming platform, mophun™, enables a media rich gaming experience on all phone platforms from low end mass market handsets to high-end Smartphones. By using mophun enhanced handsets mobile network operators, mobile phone manufacturers and game developers can increase their gaming revenue by offering games with unparalleled performance, graphics and gameplay.
Synergenix supports mobile network operators and other game distributors with an online market place to allow easy access to game content from third party developers.
For further information, please visit www.mophun.com or contact pr@mophun.com
Synergenix will be present at 3GSM World Congress, CeBIT, CTIA, GDC and other trade shows 2004.
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