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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
QUALCOMM Continues Platform Enabler Leadership With BREW Client 4-Series Release
SAN DIEGO, June 21 -- QUALCOMM Incorporated
(Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless
technologies and mobile data solutions, today announced its new BREW(R) Client
4-Series, which delivers a new BREW Client architecture for wireless devices
that meets the evolving market needs for a deeply integrated application
execution environment.
BREW Client 4-Series' architecture provides a new platform and
developer-facing features that will enable handset manufacturers to better
collaborate with developers. Using the platform, manufacturers can now safely
expose hardware and software layers to their developer partners so that new
applications can be created for specific devices. Furthermore, developers
will gain new content-framework support that allows for improved discovery,
delivery and installation of content, as well as comprehensive support for
security and digital rights management (DRM), which will allow them to focus
on the user experience. Designed to bring more compelling wireless
applications and services to market on a broad tier of devices, BREW Client
4-Series will reduce development costs and time to market, while meeting the
increasingly complex requirements of BREW operators, device manufacturers and
developers.
KDDI pioneered the use of this new innovative architecture with its KDDI
Common Platform (KCP), which leveraged a KDDI-targeted BREW Client 4.0
released earlier this year, as well as QUALCOMM's Mobile Station Modem(TM)
MSM7500(TM) chipset software. KCP created an integrated platform with
consistent software architecture across devices, allowing KDDI's device
manufacturer partners to reduce development cost and time to market.
BREW Client 4.1 is targeted for availability in the first quarter of 2008.
It will include a Software Development Kit (SDK) and three release versions:
Porting Kit for MSM chipsets (PKM), Porting Kit Generic (PKG), and Porting
Evaluation Kit (PEK).
"BREW Client 4-Series provides an enhanced application environment that
allows operators, publishers and developers to deliver improved capabilities
for business, multimedia and gaming applications," said Bob Briggs, senior
vice president and general manager, BREW for QUALCOMM Internet Services. "By
creating more opportunities for meaningful collaboration among these critical
members of the wireless value chain, QUALCOMM's ultimate goal is to deliver
new and compelling applications to the wireless end user."
"Mobile devices continue to evolve, supporting increasingly sophisticated
multimedia, gaming and enterprise applications that draw in the end user and
create brand loyalty for device manufacturers," said Steve Mollenkopf, senior
vice president of product management for QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies. "BREW
Client 4-Series further supports device manufacturers by allowing them to
leverage the new architecture and work directly with developers in creating
applications specifically for their new devices."
"As the first operator in the world offering QUALCOMM's BREW Gaming
Signature Solution, we are well aware of the ever-increasing capabilities of
BREW," said Luigi Licciardi, senior vice president of domestic mobile and head
of mobile industry relations for Telecom Italia. "With its ability to
significantly enhance the capabilities of business, multimedia and gaming
applications, BREW Client 4-Series will redefine what people can do with their
mobile devices, both in terms of productivity and entertainment."
"BREW Client 4-Series will lay the groundwork for compelling new phone
features that we can pass on to the end-user in the form of a dynamic
entertainment experience," said Travis Boatman, vice president of worldwide
studios at EA Mobile. "As a leading publisher of games for the mobile
platform, BREW Client 4-Series will enable EA Mobile to create more complex
mobile applications than ever before, which can run on the device at the same
time as other applications."
BREW solutions change the way people relate to wireless data services. By
enabling the discovery and delivery of high-value content, BREW creates
opportunities for the wireless industry to enhance consumers' mobile data
experience. QUALCOMM's comprehensive and targeted BREW Signature Solutions
offer reduced time to market and lower capital investment for companies
providing mobile products and services. Customers also can benefit from
several modular BREW offerings, including uiOne, deliveryOne(TM) and
QPoint(TM), which provide the foundation for customer-differentiated wireless
data capabilities.
QUALCOMM Incorporated (www.qualcomm.com) is a leader in developing and
delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services
based on CDMA and other advanced technologies. Headquartered in San Diego,
Calif., QUALCOMM is included in the S&P 500 Index and is a 2007 FORTUNE 500(R)
company traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market(R) under the ticker symbol QCOM.
QUALCOMM and BREW are registered trademarks of QUALCOMM Incorporated.
uiOne, deliveryOne, QPoint , Mobile Station Modem and MSM7500 are trademarks
of QUALCOMM Incorporated. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
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