Europe
: 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 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.