  AMIGA ANYWHERE AND AMIGA CONTENT TO SHIP
ON THE NEW Z100 SMARTPHONE FROM SENDO
July 27, 2001 - Snoqualmie, WA (USA), - Birmingham England - Amiga, Inc. and
Sendo announced today that Amiga Anywhere and Amiga Anywhere content will be
shipped with, and extended content made available for the Sendo multimedia Z100
Smartphone. The applications are being developed by the highly talented Amiga
Development Community and range from well-known games to messaging services
and business applications from Amiga's impressive catalogue and its long standing
position as a pioneer in multimedia development.
The Z100 Smartphone's large color screen and the processing power of the device
make it an ideal phone for games and multimedia entertainment.
Amiga Anywhere Applications will be available for the Sendo Z100 via download
as well as by SD based Game Card's known as Amiga Anywhere Entertainment Packs.
The first Entertainment Pack features four unsurpassed applications that are
a testament to the innovation of the Amiga development community. A Casino Game
pack and Arcade packs are to follow in short order. It is anticipated that hundreds
more titles are to follow this year, with increased wireless functionality.
"Both Amiga and our development community look forward to working with Sendo
to bring leading edge applications to operator partners and end users of the
Sendo Z100. In Sendo, we have found a partner that will surely play a huge role
in defining the mobile experience," said Bill McEwen, President and CEO Amiga
Inc.
"Amiga and their development community are known for their innovation and multimedia
capabilities. Sendo is excited to offer this content and services to our partners
and customers," said Hugh Brogan CEO of Sendo.
The Z100 Smartphone will be available through premier carriers and partners
throughout the world. The Z100 Smartphone is a true multimedia phone introducing
the world to the next generation of mobile devices.
About Amiga
Amiga, Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider
of multimedia technologies to the world. Its award-winning software has been
a mainstay for motion picture studios, government agencies, and entertainment
enthusiasts from around the world. Today Amiga continues to lead the way in
multimedia development by providing developers with hardware-independent technologies
for writing and porting applications to a new hardware-agnostic, multimedia
platform. Amiga Anywhere powered with intent from the Tao Group, enables applications
to run unchanged on a broad range of processors including ARM, StrongARM, Intel
X-Scale, OMAP, MIPS, Intel x86, Motorola 68K, and Hitachi SH. It can run hosted
on a wide variety of operating systems including Windows CE .NET, Windows 9x,
2000, and XP. Amiga Anywhere applications can be purchased online at http://www.shopamiga.com/. Amiga is
based in Snoqualmie, Wash. For more information, call 425-396-5660 or visit
http://www.amiga.com/.
About Sendo
Sendo, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom, started
shipping terminals to carrier customers in Europe and Asia in May 2001. The
company is now shipping five products in twenty countries in Europe and Asia.
Sendo offers high-performance, competitively priced, reliable products and services
to the cellular market. Sendo has been established with the needs of the wireless
carriers and consumers in mind. The company offers a complete custom program,
from exclusively branded phones, matched fulfillment programs and software with
dedicated services. Details of the company are available at http://www.sendo.com/
Sendo Z100 Smartphone
At approx. 100 grams and 99 cc, the Sendo Z100 Multimedia Smartphone
will be one of the smallest and lightest GPRS tri-band smartphones. It will
feature an impressive TFT display with up to 65,000 colors, comparable in quality
to a high-end laptop display. The Z100 Smartphone will be able to play MP3 and
Windows Media Audio and Video files and will include USB, IRDA and RS232 connectivity.
In addition, the Z100 Smartphone will have an integrated HTML,
c-HTML and WAP browser. The Z100 Smartphone will be one of the first color smartphones
that gives users access to e-mail, contacts and meaningful Internet content
on the go. E-mail and contacts can be synchronized over the air, using IR or
when directly connected to a PC running compatible software. It will incorporate
the new Microsoft ® Windows® Powered Smartphone 2002 software. Sendo also plans
to incorporate the Amiga Anywhere Content Engine.
Naturally, other features like voice dial and voice memo and a
wide range of accessories, like a digital clip-on camera (VGA resolution), will
be offered. The pictures taken with the camera may be immediately sent to someone
in the form of a JPEG file or an MMS message. GPS navigation software combined
with an in-car accessory will also be offered.
Sendo will add a number of features, in option packs, to those
that come standard with Smartphone 2002, which may include, for example, a Java
Virtual Machine, an advanced EMS/MMS messaging client, file viewers for popular
document formats, and SyncML. A number of video and audio players will be available
for the device. Sendo has previously announced that it is working with several
video player companies.
The Z100 Smartphone will offer memory expansion capability with
hot-pluggable MMC (Multimedia card) and SD (Secure Digital) cards. The memory
slot is a key enabler to allow the downloading of information between the phone
and other devices.
Sendo has announced Bluetooth support for the Z100 Smartphone,
which will be enabled by a plug-in module into the memory slot. The SDIO (Secure
Digital Input/Output) card is a small expansion card, which allows wireless
connectivity to a Bluetooth headset or Bluetooth enabled devices.
For further information, please contact
Bill McEwen
Amiga Inc
Phone +1(425) 396 5660
bill@amiga.com
http://www.amiga.com/
Marijke van Hooren
Sendo
Phone:+44 (0) 121 766 1960
Mobile:+44 (0) 7968 820 701
mvanhooren@sendo.com
http://www.sendo.com/
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