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PalmGear Announces Partnership with Cellmania to Bring Palm OS Software to Palm Powered Cellphone Owners through Wireless Carriers
The Agreement Also Allows Cellmania to Distribute Titles through Online Retailers & Its Own Website
NASHVILLE, TN (May 6, 2003) — Cellmania, a leading provider of mobile business software for carriers and enterprises, and PalmGear, the world's largest and oldest Palm OS-based consumer marketspace, today announced a partnership designed to broaden the distribution channels for Palm OS software on Palm Powered™ cellphones. The agreement authorizes Cellmania to choose from thousands of possible cellphone-ready applications in PalmGear's catalog for distribution through wireless carriers, online retailers and the Cellmania website. Over-the-air download of Palm OS titles through wireless carriers will be a first.
The partnership leverages PalmGear's relationships with over 14,000 Palm OS developers and its library of more than 17,000 titles for Palm-based devices including handhelds and cellphones. As the largest and most complete source for Palm OS applications, PalmGear will give Cellmania instant access to cellphone-ready titles in every category ranging from games to productivity, travel, and eBooks.
"We have an extensive catalog of mobile applications ranging from WAP to J2ME and Microsoft Pocket PC that wireless operators and e-commerce sites can offer to their customers and now we can offer the great solutions for the Palm OS platform as well," said Ronjon Nag, CEO and co-founder of Cellmania. "This partnership with PalmGear allows us to make the entire universe of Palm OS applications available to our partners. It's the most efficient way for us to meet demand from the Palm OS community."
Cellmania has agreements with leading wireless operators and online retailers who use Cellmania's infrastructure software for provisioning cellphones. These same Cellmania technologies will allow carriers and online retailers to download Palm OS applications to their customers' phone equipment and, for carriers, automatically add each purchase to the subscriber's monthly phone bill.
"This relationship between Cellmania and PalmGear will help strengthen the overall Palm Economy by making it easier for owners of Palm Powered cellphones to find and purchase add-on applications wirelessly," said Larry Berkin, Director, Developer Marketing for PalmSource, Inc., the maker of the Palm OS platform.
"Every distribution outlet that is added for Palm OS applications not only benefits consumers and the Palm platform as a whole, but also gives developers a new sales channel for their products," said Ryan Wuerch, president and chief executive officer of PalmGear.com. "Given Cellmania's agreements with major wireless carriers around the world, and provisioning agreements with online retailers such as Office Depot, as well as Cellmania's ability to draw customers to Cellmania's own website, this partnership opens important new revenue opportunities for both developers and the vendors who will be promoting their products."
About Cellmania
Cellmania is the leading provider of technologies needed to provision, download and bill for wireless applications. Using Cellmania mFinder™ search and over-the-air download technology, wireless operators can provide their customers access to more than 40,000 mobile applications of various types including WAP, J2ME, SMS, MMS, Microsoft Smartphone 2002, Palm and Microsoft PocketPC. Cellmania mBilling™ micro-billing intermediation technology allows mobile operators to bill on behalf of developers. By using Cellmania mBilling mobile operators can bill on behalf of more than 20,000 wireless developers that Cellmania has relationships with. Twelve operators around the world are using Cellmania's solutions including AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless and Vodafone. Additionally retailers such as Office Depot also use Cellmania's solution for mobile phone provisioning.
About Palm Gear
Since 1997, PalmGear has firmly held its position as the world's largest and oldest commercial Internet site devoted to third-party software solutions for the PalmOS platform. With its relationship to more than 14,000 registered PalmOS developers and its high-volume site traffic of millions of unique visitors each month, PalmGear is poised to provide a solid increase in revenues for the developer community, encourage the development of new Palm OS solutions and further expand the Palm Powered handheld market. For more information, visit PalmGear at www.palmgear.com.
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