magic4 delivers next generation MMS enabled Sagem handsets

magic4, the mobile messaging solutions company, today announces a deal with Sagem, the leading French telecommunications equipment provider.

UK, February 10, 2003 -- magic4, the mobile messaging solutions company, today announces a deal with Sagem, the leading French telecommunications equipment provider. Under the terms of the agreement, magic4 will provide Sagems phones with its embedded EMS and MMS clients.

Sagem will deliver several mobile handsets to the market in 2003, most of them offering MMS capability provided by magic4 and featuring colour screens, HiFi and polyphonic ring tones, multimedia features and slide show editor and viewer. The handsets will operate on SMS, WAP and GPRS and will be able to work on 900MHz, 1800MHz or 1900MHz networks.

According to Simon Wilkinson, CEO of magic4: magic4 is building on its already successful strategic development partnership with Sagem by offering MMS capability to the latest Sagem handset releases. This partnership will deliver high quality, affordable MMS solutions to the mass market. The Interoperability Testing services offered by magic4, together with the experience and professionalism of both companies, allows for a first time right product offering and a rapid time to market interoperable solution. This latest agreement cements the relationship between Sagem and magic4 and is testament to the quality of magic4s software."

Thierry Buffenoir, Senior VP Managing Director Mobile Phones Division of Sagem, commented: Sagem and magic4 are bringing new and affordable MMS solutions to the mass market and are helping to drive the take up of MMS. Sagems in depth technical know-how and magic4s ability to deliver product allows both companies to jointly develop an important interoperability testing process, and to launch new products that open doors to a rich multimedia environment. Sagem is one of the leading handset manufacturers in the market and this latest announcement will ensure that the company remains in this position."

This is the latest contract between Sagem and magic4, both companies are building upon the success they had with the launch of the worlds first EMS version 5 compliant handsets last year.

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NOTES TO EDITORS

About magic4
With seamless EMS, MMS, IM, SyncML and email applications, magic4 is the worlds 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 worlds 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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