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News Release from: TTPCom | Subject: BREW
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 20 February 2002
Universal applications environment for
GSM/GPRS
TTPCom has combined its Wireless Game Engine (WGE) with Qualcomm's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) platform in a GSM/GPRS handset.
TTPCom has combined its Wireless Game Engine (WGE) with Qualcomm's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) platform in a GSM/GPRS handset The two companies will demonstrate WGE games and BREW-enabled applications on the TTPCom InTouch handset at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes this week
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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TTPCom and Qualcomm's collaboration marks the European debut of the BREW platform on a GSM/GPRS handset.
This initiative means that European carriers will be able to deploy BREW-based services.
End users will be able to access sophisticated games via WGE and a myriad of other applications via the BREW platform and download them over the air on GSM/GPRS handsets.
This opens up the potential for a universal applications environment in which compelling content will be available across both GSM and CDMA networks.
"This integrated solution gives TTPCom's customers access to the interesting applications environment available through Qualcomm's open BREW platform", said Tony Milbourn, CEO of TTPCom.
"End users will be able to customise their handsets by downloading the best content, including our WGE games, produced by a worldwide community of developers - and those developers will only need to write an application once to capture sales in a worldwide market".
"We're delighted with the success we and TTPCom have had porting the BREW platform to TTPCom's GPRS handset", said Dr Paul E Jacobs, group president, Qualcomm Wireless and Internet Group.
"The turnaround time on this handset exceeded our expectations.
This dramatically demonstrates that the benefits of the BREW platform, such as rapid time to market for global handset manufacturers, are independent of wireless technology".
The integration by TTPCom and Qualcomm of the BREW platform into a WGE-enabled GPRS handset gives end users access to quality games via over the air downloads.
The BREW platform for wireless is giving consumers around the world the ability to personalise their wireless handsets by downloading, over the air, the applications they want and need, virtually anytime, anywhere.
These applications include personal productivity tools, m-services, position location, mapping, sports, entertainment and gaming.
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