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NEC America Leverages Full Potential of Openwave Phone Suite Version 7

Posted on: Wednesday, 27 October 2004, 09:00 CDT

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and CTIA, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Openwave Systems Inc. , the leading provider of open software products and services for the communications industry, today announced that its award winning Openwave Phone Suite Version 7 (V7) has been licensed to NEC America, Inc. (NEC), a leading provider of innovative communications products, solutions and services, for integration into its newest handsets, NEC's 232E High Definition Mobile. (HDM(TM)) phones. As the first manufacturer to deploy the entire V7 framework in a mass-market phone, NEC is licensing Openwave Mobile Browser V7 and Openwave Mobile Messaging Client V7 software. The new phone is scheduled to be available in the United States in November 2004.

"We are extremely pleased with the result of our collaboration with NEC on this compelling handset," said Stephen Burke, vice president of the client software group at Openwave. "By taking advantage of all the functionality in the V7 Suite, such as the advanced framework elements that enable deep customization of the user interface as well as its graphics capabilities, NEC and Openwave are vividly demonstrating how client software can meet complex requirements to bring to market high performance, highly usable mass market phones."

Integration of V7 into the application layer of these handsets helps meet the demands of manufacturers like NEC to exercise more control over the look and feel of the phone.

"With Openwave Phone Suite Version 7, we not only achieve extensive customization of the user interface but we also are able to leverage our investment in V7 to easily scale with advanced functionality across multiple handsets," said Scott Spreen, assistant general manager, NEC's Wireless Division. "The flexibility and portability of Openwave's client software is important for the development of NEC's handsets so that we can respond to diverse operator requirements."

"NEC's new High Definition Mobile phone based on Broadcom's EDGE platform is a great example of how our leading EDGE silicon technology is enabling manufacturers to offer solutions that can take advantage of next-generation mobile applications," said Bob Rango, Vice President of Broadcom's Mobile & Wireless Group. "The significantly enhanced data throughput of our EDGE solution combined with the scalability and flexibility of Openwave Phone Suite Version 7 has enabled NEC to deliver a feature rich mobile phone with compelling multimedia applications."

About Openwave Phone Suite Version 7

Several leading phone manufacturers have licensed and plan to utilize Openwave Phone Suite V7 in phones scheduled to ship this year. The suite provides a one-stop solution for meeting carrier requirements for browsing, client provisioning, download, digital rights management, multimedia messaging, email, synchronization, file management, device management, instant messaging, and mobile location. V7 also features groundbreaking user interface capabilities allowing operators and manufacturers to harness the power of the phone, innovating on top of core mobile data technologies to deliver custom experiences and new value added data services for end users.

-- Openwave(R) Mobile Browser V7 -- As the flagship application of Openwave Phone Suite Version 7, the V7 Browser represents an advance in mobile browsing technology, including significant developments in page rendering, to provide an improved user experience. UI customization ensures consistency with the rest of the phone interface, allowing manufacturers and carriers to easily customize handsets for their target audiences.

-- Openwave Mobile Messaging Client Version 7 -- Designed to drive mobile data usage by providing a common user experience across messaging, browsing, calendar, address book and other phone applications, the Openwave Mobile Messaging Client offers a flexible and feature rich solution enabling operators to offer services such as photo messaging, multimedia communication, and rich third party content. Developers can download the Openwave Phone Simulator 6.2.2 and the MMS SDK to create and test their MMS content. The latest Phone Simulator contains the Mobile Messaging Client and can be downloaded from http://developer.openwave.com/.

About NEC America, Inc.

NEC America, Inc., headquartered in Irving, Texas, is a leading provider of innovative communications products, solutions, and services. NEC America serves all communications industries from carriers, to enterprise, to wireless and is an affiliate of NEC Corporation , a Global Fortune 500 company and one of the leading patent producing enterprises in the world. For more information about NEC America, visit its website at http://www.necamerica.com/.

About Openwave

Openwave Systems Inc. is the leading independent provider of open software products and services for the communications industry. Openwave's breadth of products, including mobile phone software, multimedia messaging software (MMS), email, location and mobile gateways, along with its worldwide expertise enable its customers to deliver innovative and differentiated data services. Openwave is a global company headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information please visit http://www.openwave.com/.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements

This release contains forward-looking statements relating to expectations, plans or prospects for Openwave Systems Inc. that are based upon the current expectations and beliefs of Openwave's management and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. In particular, the following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements: (a) risks associated with the development, licensing and porting of software onto mobile phones generally, including potential delays in software development and technical difficulties that may be encountered in the development or use of our software; (b) the willingness of communication service providers to invest and improve their data networks; (c) the ability to successfully partner with other companies; (d) technological changes and developments; and (e) general risks of the Internet and wireless and wireline telecommunications sectors, including increased transmission of spam and viruses.

For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to the risk factors discussed in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including but not limited to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 and subsequently filed reports. All documents also are available through the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system (EDGAR) at http://www.sec.gov/ or from Openwave's Web site at http://www.openwave.com/. The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this document.

NOTE: Openwave and the Openwave logo are trademarks and or registered trademarks of Openwave Systems Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

+HDM (High Definition Mobile) is not meant to imply compliance with any HDTV (High Definition Television) or similar high definition standards.

For more information please contact:

Openwave Systems Inc. Openwave (Europe) Ltd.

Candace Locklear Hannah Newton

+1 650 480 4316 + 44 (0)7767 657716

candace.locklear@openwave.com Hannah.Newton@openwave.com

NEC America. Inc.

Amy Dittman

+1 214 262 4254

adittman@necam.com

Openwave Systems Inc.

CONTACT: Candace Locklear of Openwave Systems Inc., +1-650-480-4316, orcandace.locklear@openwave.com; or Hannah Newton of Openwave (Europe) Ltd.,+44 (0)7767 657716, or Hannah.Newton@openwave.com; or Amy Dittman of NECAmerica. Inc., +1-214-262-4254, or adittman@necam.com

Web site: http://www.necamerica.com/

Web site: http://www.openwave.com/

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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