Press Release Source: Fonix Corp.
Fonix VoiceDial Now Shipping on T-Mobile and O2 Microsoft PocketPC Devices
Monday December 13, 9:00 am ET
HTC Licenses Award-Winning Fonix Speech Interface for Advanced Mobile Wireless Devices
SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 2004--Fonix® Corp. (OTC BB: FNIX - News), an integrated communications carrier providing telecommunications services and value-added speech technologies, has licensed its award-winning Fonix VoiceDial(TM) hands-free dialing technology for use by High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC), a world-leading original design manufacturer (ODM). The Fonix/HTC agreement is based on unit royalties. Current mobile operators marketing HTC devices in Europe featuring Fonix VoiceDial include O2 and Deutsche Telekom's mobile communications division T-Mobile.
HTC selected Fonix VoiceDial, winner of a Microsoft "Best Solution" award, to be a standard software feature on its devices marketed to global mobile operators and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). New to the market are the T-Mobile MDA III and the O2 XDA II PocketPC devices, both featuring Fonix VoiceDial in multiple languages, which allows users to access their mobile phone contacts simply by speaking, with no voice training required.
"HTC and Fonix meet the growing demand for safe, easy-to-use wireless devices based on the Windows Mobile Platform," said Tim K. Hong, vice president of Fonix Mobile Wireless. "By integrating Fonix speech solutions, HTC gives end users what they are demanding -- safe, easy-to-use mobile phones that increase personal productivity."