Text-input software joins handset design suite

Infineon Technologies subsidiary Comneon has pre-integrated Zi's user-friendly eZiText technology into its handset design software for use by OEMs and ODMs.

Infineon Technologies subsidiary Comneon has pre-integrated Zi's user-friendly eZiText technology into its handset design software for use by OEMs and ODMs.

The relationship with Comneon increases the number of leading software development companies that have selected Zi's predictive text technologies for integration into their platform software products, which further expands the community that is now incorporating Zi's products for delivery to the global wireless market.

The pre-integration work allows Infineon's customers faster time to market and dramatically reduces implementation costs.

Comneon, a leading supplier of embedded software for mobile communications, has pre-integrated eZiText into the man-machine interface (MMI) module within the Apoxi Development Suite.

MMI is the part of the handset design software that determines how a mobile phone user interacts with a handset's applications and services.

The pre-integration of eZiText with Comneon's Apoxi has been completed for the Chinese language and a selection of alphabetic languages.

"This alliance with Zi allows us to offer a more complete solution to our customers by meeting their growing demands for pre-integrated and pretested software that is ready for immediate deployment", said Dr Christian Mucke, Managing Director of Comneon.

"Predictive text input has become a core requirement of every OEM, and Zi has the ability to be responsive with their strong customer support and the product modularity to allow for easy customisation with our MMI implementations in a broad range of languages".

"Being selected by Comneon to provide its customers a more complete solution validates Zi's technology and underscores the importance of text messaging capabilities for today's mobile handsets", said Gary Mendel, Zi Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

Zi's eZiText and eZiTap are user-friendly text input technologies that significantly increase the ease, speed and accuracy of text input on any mobile device.

eZiTap is a unique combination of multi-tap, prediction and learning functions that enables the dynamic creation of vocabulary.

eZiText provides faster and more efficient text messaging through truly predictive one touch entry and word completion, coupled with the ability to learn from a person's usage patterns and behaviour.

Comneon's Apoxi is an object-oriented application framework for rapid development of man machine interfaces and integration of various applications for mobile communication products.

Apoxi has been designed to meet the special requirements of mobile, embedded devices and provides specific APIs.

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