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LONDON -- Sonim Technologies, Inc. (www.sonimtech.com), a leading provider of IP-based Instant Communications solutions for wireless data networks, today announced it is previewing the combined use of voice and text instant messaging over its Instant Communication Solution platform at the Symbian Partner Event held exclusively for Symbian Platinum Partners at the Radisson Edwardian Hotel Heathrow in Middlesex. The combination of voice and text instant messaging allows mobile phone users to switch between voice and text mode to communicate with their friends and colleagues, offering optimal convenience and flexibility. Sonim will also be demonstrating its Push-To-Talk (PTT) and Direct Message Service. Sonim has worked closely with Symbian and Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) to jointly demonstrate this application at the event. The Sonim Instant Communication Client is ported to TI's Innovator reference design board using an OMAP 1510 chipset, and is run on Symbian OS v7.0. The demonstrated application can be quickly deployed to a GPRS handset by integrating the Sonim-enabled OMAP chipset and Symbian OS.

"Sonim has worked collaboratively with Symbian and TI to make a standards-based, end-to-end solution for GPRS devices available," said John Burns, president and CEO of Sonim. "The applications we are demonstrating today enable high-margin voice and data services that extend beyond the current text messaging markets, and create significant return on low deployment costs for wireless operators and device manufacturers." The Sonim Instant Communication Solution combines the best of text messaging with the power of voice, allowing users to view other users' presence information and instantly connect in "walkie-talkie" mode with one or many people, or leave voice messages. With integrated voice and text messaging, not only can a user move easily between voice and text mode, but they can also communicate in a mixed mode fashion where one user is communicating using voice while the other user is communicating using text. For a mobile operator, this solution leads to reducing signaling overhead on the data network, which translates to lower operating costs for Sonim enabled applications.

"The combined use of voice and text messaging as demonstrated by Sonim today opens a new wireless voice and data services arena," said Gilles Alain, VP, Partnerships & Alliances of Symbian. "Sonim's solution leverages Symbian OS and provides a powerful enterprise tool allowing instant group communications both verbally and textually which can be integrated into Symbian OS GPRS handsets." The Symbian Partner Events, held twice annually, are exclusively for Symbian Platinum Partners. The aim is to communicate updates on strategic and core technology advances of Symbian OS and offer an open forum for networking and commercial opportunities. These events are available to thought leaders of the Symbian OS ecosystem including partners, licensees, network operators and content providers. Sonim has been a Symbian Platinum Partner since September, 2002.
Sonim Technologies Inc.
Symbian Ltd.
Texas Instruments Inc.

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