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TTPCom Licenses AJAR Platform to Motorola for Mobile Device Development

Strategic Insights

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TTPCom has announced a significant partnership with Motorola, agreeing to license its AJAR cellular applications platform for the development of select low-cost mass-market mobile devices. This collaboration aims to accelerate time-to-market for Motorola's products, leveraging the flexibility and scalability of the AJAR platform. The platform combines a comprehensive applications framework, a toolset for development and testing, and a suite of pre-integrated applications, ensuring consistent quality across various devices.

Key Takeaways:

  • The AJAR platform is designed to deliver improved productivity throughout Motorola's product development lifecycle, reducing costs and accelerating time-to-market for low-cost mass-market mobile devices.
  • The platform provides a comprehensive applications framework, a toolset for development and testing, and a suite of pre-integrated applications, including Java, MMS, WAP2.0, digital camera support, and polyphonic ringtones.
  • TTPCom's technology has been used in over 40 million devices shipped in 2004, solidifying its position as a world-leading developer of intellectual property for wireless communication terminals.
  • The partnership with Motorola demonstrates TTPCom's ability to address the challenges faced by mobile device manufacturers, including bringing targeted feature phones to market quickly and minimizing costs.
  • Tony Milbourn, TTPCom's Managing Director, stated, "Feature phones represent the largest and most diverse segment of the mobile device market today. The challenge for manufacturers is to bring ranges of targeted feature phones to market quickly whilst minimising cost."

Statistics:

  • Over 40 million devices using TTPCom technology were shipped in 2004.
  • TTPCom licenses its technology to leading semiconductor and terminal manufacturers worldwide, including Analog Devices, Intel, LG, NEC, Renesas, Sharp, and Siemens.
  • TTPCom has 10 offices and development centres around the world.

Sources:

  • Business Wire, Aug. 17, 2005
  • TTPCom website, http://www.ttpcom.com

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