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LG Electronics Selects SavaJe Operating System for Next Generation Handsets

Posted on: Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 12:00 CST

New opportunities for operators & new experiences for consumers through SavaJe & LG Electronics partnership

LG Electronics and SavaJe Technologies today announced a partnership to deliver SavaJe OS(TM), on a range of 2.5 and 3G handsets starting in 2005. Unlike other mobile operating systems, SavaJe OS offers a total Java(R) environment designed to provide operators, developers and their customers the richest, most innovative and most secure user experience available. More details will be available during the 3GSM World Congress this coming February in Cannes.

Dr. Woo-Young Kwak, Vice President and Research Fellow, Mobile Handset R&D Center, LG Electronics, commented that "LGE sees SavaJe OS as the technology to deliver products with a new innovative generation of user experiences, enabling operators to accelerate their revenue streams."

"Sun Microsystems welcomes and supports LG Electronics' and SavaJe's innovative extension of the mobile Java platform to the entire handset operating system," said John Loiacono, Executive Vice President of Software, Sun Microsystems. "By opening the doors to a consistent end-to-end software platform, this partnership will create huge new value propositions for mobile Java developers and the whole mobile ecosystem."

Bob Gilkes, Chairman of SavaJe Technologies said, "We are truly delighted to be working with LG Electronics. Over the past year we have learned to appreciate the pervasive dedication to six-sigma quality and the innovative marketing thought that permeates LG. We believe that this partnership will deliver significant benefits to LGE's operator customers and ensure that consumers will benefit from a richer user experience."

About LG Electronics, Inc.

LG Electronics, Inc. (CEO: S.S. Kim, 06657.KS) was established in 1958 as the pioneer in the Korean consumer electronics market. The company is a major global force in electronics and information and communications products with more than 64,000 employees working in 75 overseas subsidiaries and marketing units around the world. With annual total revenues of more than US US$29.9 billion (consolidated), LG Electronics comprises three main business companies: Digital Display & Media, Digital Appliance, and Telecommunication Equipment & Handset.

The LG Telecommunication Equipment & Handset Company provides total solutions ranging from wired and wireless handsets to telecommunication equipment. The company is a leader in the innovation and development of cutting -edge technologies in next-generation wireless telecommunications and is steadily expanding its global market share in 3G (WCDMA / CDMA2000) wireless systems.

LG Electronics' goal is to enable the intelligent networking of digital products that will make consumers' lives better than ever. For more information, please visit www.lge.com

About SavaJe Technologies

SavaJe Technologies is the developer of SavaJe OS, an open, standards-based operating system for mobile phones. Based on Sun Microsystems' Java technology, SavaJe OS offers Operators and OEMs a standardized platform, and an unmatched level of security.

SavaJe OS provides Operators with the ability to fully customize the user experience while maintaining full applications compatibility across implementations. The scalability of the platform, which uniquely implements an advanced set of industry-standard Java APIs as its single applications platform, also offers significant benefits to OEMs and ODM handset manufacturers. Operator customization, systems integration and handset testing is simplified, and time to market is thereby reduced.

SavaJe Technologies is a privately held company, funded by leading venture capital firms Vantage Point Venture Partners, Ridgewood Capital, RRE Ventures and New Venture Partners, as well as by the strategic investment arms of Vodafone, T-Mobile and Orange. SavaJe is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and has European offices in Cambridge, UK.

SavaJe is a registered trademark and SavaJe OS is a trademark of SavaJe Technologies, Inc. All other product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Source: Business Wire

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