magic4 accelerates success in Asia through major deal with Compal - a leading Chinese mobile handset manufacturer

magic4, the mobile messaging solutions specialist, has announced that China-based Compal Electronics, one of the world's leading manufacturers of mobile phones, has deployed magic4's Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS) and Multimedia Messaging (MMS) client into Compal's top end mobile products.

London, 10 January, 2003 - magic4, the mobile messaging solutions specialist, has announced that China-based Compal Electronics, one of the world's leading manufacturers of mobile phones, has deployed magic4's Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS) and Multimedia Messaging (MMS) client into Compal's top end mobile products. magic4's EMS and MMS clients form part of its industry standard integrated messaging platform incorporating, MIM, SMS, SyncML and Email.

Compal, headquartered in Taipei, with offices in South Korea, the UK and the US, is one of the region's largest contract equipment manufacturers of notebook computers, monitors and mobile phones for the worlds' major computer and communications companies.

Under the terms of the licence, Compal will offer magic4's advanced EMS Release 5 and MMS client for use in all appropriate products as agreed with magic4.

Henry Lee, Senior Vice President of Compal, said, "Our agreement with magic4 allows us to offer all our customers a much superior quality product containing features and benefits which are critical to the new generation of mobile phone customers. The implementation of the magic4 EMS and MMS client enables our customers to offer their users a much richer experience supporting colour screens, polyphonic ringtones, picture messaging and a host of other enhanced qualities."

Simon Wilkinson, Chief Executive Officer, magic4, added, "We are delighted to be announcing this licensing agreement with Compal. It is intensely gratifying to be recognised by a leading handset manufacturer as the de-facto standard in EMS and MMS client software. This exemplifies our position as the leader in mobile messaging."

magic4 has a suite of messaging clients including EMS, MMS, wireless village instant messaging, SyncML and email, all developed in a modular format, enabling mobile device manufacturers to deliver a seamless consumer user experience.

NOTES TO EDITORS

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.

About Compal
Compal communication Inc. is going to persist in developing handsets with two main technologies. One is GPRS technology, offering high-speed mobile data services, and the other is Smartphone. Compal communication Inc. has been cooperating with international first tier companies and proposes to launch its first Smartphone early this year.

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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