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Cellmania to Publish Wide Array of Wireless Applications for QUALCOMM's BREW™ Platform
Cellmania Brings Large Developer Community to BREW-Enabled Operators
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 18, 2003 – Cellmania, Inc., a leading wireless application ecosystem provider, with the world's largest database of certified wireless applications, today announced that it will publish applications developed for QUALCOMM's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless™ (BREW) platform.
"Cellmania has 40,000 wireless applications, in multiple platform formats, including J2ME, Microsoft Smartphone, Microsoft Pocket PC, PDA, SMS, WAP, and ranging from games and entertainment to productivity applications, from relationships with over 20,000 wireless application developers around the world. With Cellmania publishing to the BREW platform, this provides operators who use the BREW solution access to thousands of applications from a variety of protocols with a single integration from Cellmania. Developers may submit their applications to Cellmania for distribution across Cellmania's network of wireless operator deployments by visiting http://www.cellmania.com/content_providers/.
"Cellmania is very pleased to offer Cellmania's worldwide developer and operator base the capability to provision and distribute applications through the BREW solution," said Dr. Ronjon Nag, CEO & Co-Founder, Cellmania, Inc. "This will provide developers of multiple application formats, such as PDA application developers, easier distribution access through the BREW ecosystem, and offer operators who use the BREW solution a single integration to have access to thousands of developers"
"The flexibility of the BREW solution is realized through QUALCOMM's relationship with Cellmania," said Peggy Johnson, president of QUALCOMM Internet Services. "Cellmania is enabling developers around the world to take advantage of the end-to-end services BREW provides. Operators will also benefit as BREW is providing them with yet another way to enhance their data offering with a growing selection of content to choose from."
Deployments of the BREW solution continue as operators throughout the world join Verizon Wireless and ALLTEL in the United States, KTF in South Korea, KDDI in Japan, and China Unicom in commercializing BREW-based services. The joint venture between Telefónica Móviles and Portugal Telecom, plans to roll out BREW services to subscribers in Latin America this month, and U.S. Cellular has launched a BREW user trial. More than 40 BREW-enabled handset models have been offered to consumers worldwide and more than 40 device manufacturers have indicated their interest in the BREW platform.
QUALCOMM's BREW solution is a complete product and business ecosystem for the development and over-the-air deployment of data services on wireless devices. The BREW solution provides the necessary tools and value-added services to developers, device manufacturers and wireless operators for applications development and distribution, device configuration, and billing and payment.
About Cellmania, Inc.
Cellmania, Inc. is a leading wireless applications and device provisioning company. The company, founded in 1999, has one of the world's largest wireless application repositories, along with download and provisioning infrastructure to distribute applications. Cellmania is deployed in 12 mobile operators around the world, and additionally offers device provisioning and application development platforms to retailers.