magic4 announces BREW MMS client for the mobile market

magic4's MMS client now exists on all mobile environments and operating systems

magic4's MMS client now exists on all mobile environments and operating systems

UK, 06 December, 2002 - magic4, the mobile messaging company, today announces availability of an MMS BREW based client. The magic4 MMS client offers a complete feature set, including easy integration to camera devices, slide show editor and viewer, Digital Rights Management support and e-mail compatibility. By accommodating the BREW environment, magic4 has now successfully deployed its MMS client across all major mobile environments and operating systems including Smartphone, Pocket PC and Symbian.

magic4's MMS client forms part of its industry standard messaging suite incorporating SMS, EMS, Email, Mobile Instant Messaging and SyncML.

Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) platform is a complete open solution for wireless applications development, device configuration, application distribution, billing and payment. The BREW architecture is easy to write to, enabling developers with no extensive background in wireless technology, to write wireless applications.

Simon Wilkinson, CEO of magic4 commented: "Last month magic4 announced general availability of its MMS client for Symbian platforms. This week, magic4 is announcing its BREW based MMS client and is already looking to deploy the solution to a number of leading CDMA handset manufacturers. magic4 is ideally placed to be the mobile software provider of choice for handset manufacturers adopting the BREW platform. magic4's MMS client now exists on all major mobile environments and operating systems."

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About magic4
With seamless EMS, MMS, IM, SyncML and email applications, magic4 is the world's leading independent producer of mobile messaging software. Used by handset manufacturers worldwide, its solutions are interoperability tested and standards compliant, as well as providing a common set of APIs for easier integration and customer time to market advantage. For more information, please visit www.magic4.com. We reserve the right to alter and amend product specifications.

Launched in March 2000, with backing from Philips Enterprises and 3i, magic4 quickly established itself as a software specialist in the area of Wireless Messaging and today is the largest independent messaging solutions company in the field of mobile devices. In 2001, magic4 launched the world's first EMS release 5 compliant Client, which was co-developed with members of 3GPP. To address the convergence of Wireless Instant Messaging technologies with fixed Internet standards, magic4 has now developed a Wireless Village 1.1 compliant Client utilising both embedded C and Java technologies.
In 2002 magic4 launched its Version 3 MMS client with support for MMS within a unified SMS/EMS/MMS/Email inbox. magic4 SyncML, a generic synchronisation client using SyncML open standards, allows users to synchronise the calendar and address book of their mobile phone or PDA to their PC simply and quickly.

For further information, please contact:
Mike Kent, magic4
Tel: +33 (0) 1 46 91 83 37
Mob: +33 (0) 6 08 72 04 98
Email: mike.kent@magic4.com
Toby Gavin, EuroPR Group
Tel: +44 (0) 20 89 71 64 10
Mob: +44 (0) 79 44 28 97 85
Email: tgavin@europrgroup.com

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