Sonim brings push-to-talk to initiative

Open-Plug is to integrate the Sonim Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC) Xperience client into Elips.

Open-Plug has announced a partnership with Sonim, the leader in enabling today's wireless data networks to deliver high-margin VoIP applications including Push-to-Talk, to integrate the Sonim Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC) Xperience client into Open-Plug Elips.

Sonim has become the latest industry player to join the Configurable Phone Initiative, to be announced at 3GSM.

Open-Plug is the latest vendor to work with Sonim's best of breed Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) PoC clients, joining a group of existing partners including three of the top five handset brands.

Founded on Sonim's cutting edge development of their PoC 1 and 2 XperienceT clients, Sonim's new PoC OMA Client enables mobile operators to accelerate their PTT deployment plans with the security of complete interoperability.

Sonim is a contributor of the worldwide consortium that submitted the PoC phase 1 specification to the OMA.

"Open-Plug's Elips enables Sonim to instantly offer our industry leading Xperience PoC client solutions on several chipset reference design phone platforms, and thereby proliferate PTT functionality over a large number of handset brands and models", said Bob Plaschke, CEO for Sonim Technologies.

"The Open-Plug and Sonim solution is tightly integrated with core telephony functions, minimising power, processing and memory utilisation within a broad spectrum of devices".

"We are excited to partner with Sonim and their best of breed Xperience OMA PoC client solutions", said Eric Baissus, CEO of Open-Plug.

"Through Elips, Sonim customers are offered a very easy and quick avenue for evaluating this class-leading PoC implementation".

"Once they make the decision to implement it, the application can be rolled out across different handset designs, including high and low end phones, with minimal integration effort".

The Configurable Phone Initiative supports the development of mobile phones with modular software architectures that are easy to adapt with new applications and user interface features during the life of the design - even while the phone is in the field.

The Initiative is supported by leading players including Modelabs, Philips Semiconductors, France Telecom R and D, Sasken and Jaatayu.

It uses Open-Plug's Elips component-based Linux framework for embedded devices, which revolutionises the way software is integrated, validated and deployed.

Elips efficiently interfaces with any native environment and allows developers to continue using familiar tools and techniques, thereby minimising additional investment and familiarisation time.

The Elips SDK and configurable phones are immediately available from Open-Plug.

Configurable phones can be provided in volume through the Open-Plug partner network at short notice as it uses typically existing mass-market phone platforms from existing suppliers.

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