Digit Wireless and Zi Corporation Announce Alliance for Intelligent Text InterfacesZTE D-Series First Fastap & eZiType Enabled P
27 März 2007 - 2:08PM
Business Wire
Digit Wireless, Inc. (www.digitwireless.com), the innovators of
Fastap� - a patented keypad design technology, and Zi Corporation,
a technology company delivering intelligent software-based text
input and interface solutions, announced today an alliance to offer
mobile device manufacturers enhanced text input and service
discovery solutions in 60 languages. The alliance allows Zi
software-based interface solutions (eZiText�, Qix� & eZiType�)
to be offered across all implementations of Fastap, including
Alphanumeric (alphabetical, qwerty, semi-qwerty) and
Press-to-ExperienceTM layouts. The ZTE D-Series EVDO phones,
scheduled to ship in the second half of this year in North America
and other parts of the globe, will be the first phone to offer the
two companies� combined offerings. The 3G mobile device will offer
Zi Corporation�s eZiType predictive software along with Digit
Wireless� Fastap keypad in its full alphanumeric implementation,
simplifying the text input experience for users. In all Latin
character-based languages, Fastap enables stylish mainstream phones
to have one letter per key, solving the ambiguous text entry
problems posed by standard 12-button phones. Designed specifically
for non-ambiguous text entry, eZiType text entry solutions provide
for accurate word, next word, slang and phrase completion. The
eZitype software also has the ability to learn from a person's
usage patterns and new vocabulary. The combined Fastap and eZitype
solutions provide faster and more efficient text entry through
truly predictive one-touch entry and word completion. Mobile users
around the globe can benefit from multiple language mainstream
devices featuring Fastap and eZiType. The flexibility of both
technologies leads to the perfect balance of mainstream, stylish
form factor phones (flip, bar, slider) with the functionality
mobile users crave. �Fastap�s innovative keypad solutions
significantly enhance the keypad interface for Zi�s supported
languages. This becomes particularly important for many of the
world�s developing markets - most of which have languages with long
alphabets and require laborious multi-tapping to enter text into a
mobile device,� said Milos Djokovic, president and CEO of Zi
Corporation. �Our entire portfolio of intelligent text entry
solutions will be made significantly more efficient with the
ergonomic efficiency and simple ease of use Fastap keypad
technologies bring to mobile phones.� �Fastap is an innovative
approach to keypad design that broadens the scope of what
subscribers can do with their mobile phone in any of the world�s
languages. Fastap keypad technology offers many more usable keys in
a small space allowing us to offer a unique opportunity to mobile
device manufacturers to create small, mainstream stylish phones
with a complete, one character-per-key alphanumeric keypad,� said
Mark Connon, CEO, Digit Wireless. �Digit Wireless and Zi each
provide elegant solutions to the text entry problem. Combining our
respective expertise to provide an even more powerful solution
should be exciting for those who are looking for ways to encourage
the use of anything from SMS to today�s more advanced 3G data
services. We are excited that device manufacturers can combine
eZiType, eZiText and Qix functionality with Fastap as manufacturers
look to innovate and create sleek, small data capable devices for
its customers.� About Digit Wireless Digit Wireless, the pioneer
and innovator of the patented Fastap� keypad technology, is
dedicated to enhancing the usability of mobile devices, making
mobile life simple. The company is working with the world�s Device
Manufacturers and Mobile Operators on licensing Fastap technology
to enhance functionality on any mobile device, increasing
discovery, access and usability of today�s voice and data services.
Digit Wireless is headquartered in Lexington, Mass. and has offices
in Hong Kong, London and Seoul. For more information, please visit
the company Web site at www.digitwireless.com or www.fastap.net.
About Fastap Fastap keypad technology is a patented innovative
approach to keypad design that creates simple-to-use devices that
enable easier discovery, access and usage of wireless data,
messaging and voice services. Fastap maintains the voice-centric
functionality that customers expect while delivering enhanced
functionality on any size phone. Utilizing raised and lowered keys,
powered by error prevention software, Fastap enables simple to use
keypads designed for the applications of today. Fastap�s patent
pending Global Language Platform empowers device manufacturers to
offer a dual-level language keypad in more than 100 languages.
Device Manufacturers and Mobile Operators will benefit from greater
revenue and increased profitability. About Zi Corporation Zi
Corporation (www.zicorp.com) is a technology company that delivers
intelligent interface solutions to enhance the user experience of
wireless and consumer technologies. The company provides device
manufacturers and network operators with a full range of intuitive
and easy-to-use input solutions, including: eZiText for one-touch
predictive text entry; eZiType for keyboard prediction with
auto-correction; Decuma� for predictive pen-input handwriting
recognition; and Qix search and service discovery engine to enhance
the user experience and drive service usage and adoption. The Zi
product portfolio dramatically improves the usability of mobile
phones, PDAs, gaming devices and set-top boxes and the applications
on them including SMS, MMS, e-mail and Internet browsing. Zi
supports its strategic partners and customers from offices in Asia,
Europe and North America. A publicly traded company, Zi Corporation
is listed on Nasdaq (ZICA) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (ZIC).
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