Multimedia Solutions for 2.5G and 3G Devices

ASIA : HCL Technologies announced it will provide multimedia solutions and services for 2.5G and 3G wireless handheld manufacturers that use Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) OMAPTM platform. HCL Tech has about 3 years of experience with the OMAP platform and has offered software services to wireless handheld device manufacturers for 2.5G and 3G devices.

Offering important building blocks, HCL Tech provides multimedia components for a wide range of exciting applications and services. HCL Tech offers manufacturers of handsets using TI’s OMAP platform a variety of modules required for imaging video and audio such as JPEG, MPEG4, AAC and AMR.

Texas Instruments’ OMAP platform for wireless processing delivers voice and multimedia enhanced applications for 2.5G and 3G wireless phones, PDAs, and advanced mobile Internet appliances. HCL Tech’s components that run on the TI OMAP platform enable wireless handheld device manufacturers to have time to market advantage, with a wide variety of rich services for their products based on OMAP processors. OMAP developers benefit from TI’s fully open OMAP platform, which has been selected by Nokia, Palm, NEC, Fujitsu, LG Electronics, Panasonic Mobile Communications, HTC, and others for the companies’ 2.5 and 3G wireless devices.

“We are excited to have HCL Tech as an OMAP Developer Network Member. HCL Tech has expertise in multimedia codec development and offers a variety of codecs and services for OMAP platform customers. Multimedia messaging (MMS) and other visual and audio applications are essential for the 2.5 and 3G wireless market," said Paul Werp, worldwide director of marketing for TI’s OMAP Platform.

“With increasing demand from end-users for application rich personal handheld devices, wireless handheld device manufacturers are looking forward to the scalable family of 2.5G/3G OMAP processors delivering the best combination of high-performance and ultra-low power consumption” said Anup Dutta, Head Microprocessor Software division at HCL Tech. “HCL Tech can play a role of bridging the gap of increased expectations of end-users and time to market requirements of manufacturers. Our experience with TI’s OMAP platform and component repository that we have built during our years in the technology market can help device manufacturers with the essential elements needed to introduce solutions faster and at significantly reduced cost.”

HCL Tech Joins OMAP Developer Network

HCL Tech is a member of TI's OMAP™ Developer Network; a group of leading software developers porting advanced applications to TI’s high performance, power-efficient OMAP processors. Handset manufacturers adopting OMAP devices enjoy the rapid deployment of compelling wireless applications – including streaming audio and video, multimedia messaging, gaming, security, speech recognition, location based services and mobile commerce – across all leading operating systems. Systems level integration services are also provided worldwide by independent OMAP Technology Centers. The OMAP platform has been selected by leading manufacturers, such as Nokia, Palm, NEC, Fujitsu, LG Electronics, Panasonic Mobile Communications, HTC and many more, for their 2.5 and 3G wireless devices.