BARCELONA and TAIPEI, Taiwan, February 27 /PRNewswire/ --
-- ELIPS Suite Will Enable Hon Hai Precision Industry to Rapidly Develop Mass Market Phones Across Multiple Chipsets
Open-Plug, the specialist in software development environment for mass market phones and portable devices, today announced it has been selected by Hon Hai Precision Industry (commonly known as Foxconn) to deliver its ELIPS Suite for the development of mass market phones for OEMs and Operators.
ELIPS Suite is a comprehensive reference application suite integrating best of breed applications from leading ISVs enabling rapid development of multimedia touchscreen-enabled mobile phones with appealing user interfaces and features like Dynamic Application Download, multitasking, WAP, MMS, Java, MEPG4, MP3, SyncML, DRM, Complex Languages, Predictive Text inputs, etc. ELIPS Suite is currently available on most of the leading chipset platforms and can be easily ported on all new EDGE & 3G chipsets to be unveiled by chipset vendors, thus enabling the re-use of existing code and reducing significantly new handset development costs.
"It was important for Hon Hai Precision Industry to select a robust solution that helps us bring highly customizable products faster to market while allowing us to quickly and fully re-use our software investment across all our current and future hardware platforms," said a Hon Hai Precision Industry Executive. "Open-Plug's technology is second to none and we are absolutely convinced that it will help us developing what will become a range of attractive device variants while staying competitive moving forward."
"We have now been working with Hon Hai Precision Industry for a few months and we are impressed by their strong technical capabilities and achievements," said Eric Baissus, CEO of Open-Plug. "We believe that by leveraging our technologies and our portable application suite, they will deliver competitive products at an unbeatable price point, leading to key design wins with major customers."
The ELIPS Suite is based on a unique component technology, patented by Open-Plug, that simplifies all phases of mobile phone software development, integration, validation and deployment. It enables mobile operators and handset makers to create, update and customize their phones, even post-sales with features like Dynamic Application Download and OTA.
About Open-Plug
Open-Plug creates and commercializes ELIPS, the first open application development environment designed for mass-market mobile phones. Already shipped in millions of devices, ELIPS enables software companies, handset makers and operators to create and deploy mobile applications, rich user interfaces as well as complete software solution, in record time.
Founded in 2002, Open-Plug is a private company financed by leading international venture capital investors. Headquartered in France, the company also operates in Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C. Open-Plug is a member of the LiMo Foundation (Linux Mobile Foundation).
For more information, visit http://www.open-plug.com
Press Contact Open-Plug: Yann Mondon, Retina Communication, Tel: +33(0)630-512-294, Mail: yann@retinapr.com
