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InnoPath Supports its Customers, Even if Google with its Nexus One Doesn’t
ActiveCare Ships on New Phones from Nokia, Pantech, Samsung, LG and Casio Hitachi
Sunnyvale, CA, February 2,
2010 – Most operators can’t
dodge the support bullet, even if their OEM
partners might try to. With this in mind InnoPath,
the leader in over-the-air customer care software
for mobile phones and devices, today announced
ActiveCare support software is available for
new phones and devices from Nokia, Samsung,
LG, Hitachi, Pantech and Casio Hitachi. Over-the-air
customer care helps operators combat the rising
cost of supporting sophisticated new phones
while providing better support for their subscribers.
In addition to these new client shipments,
the company announced an additional US Patent
(7,516,451) covering mobile updates, bringing
the company’s patent count to 21.
InnoPath has also announced immediate
availability of its Embedded Client 5.6, the
latest iteration of the company’s leading
Device Management Engine (DME) and Device Update
Agent (DUA) technology for pre-loading by the
handset manufacturer. Technical advances and
a strong patent and intellectual property portfolio
have facilitated performance enhancements, resulting
in performance up to 75 percent better than prior
generation clients. Universal file system support
ensures applicability for both featurephones
as well as smartphones based on open OSs including
Windows Phone, Symbian, LiMo, and Android. InnoPath’s
Delta Manager, responsible for generating the
firmware update packages used by the DUA, now
supports the largest system image files in the
industry – 750 MB, and is also the first
to support images for dual-processor phones,
such as those based on both the ARM 9 and ARM
11, commonly used in Android, Windows Mobile
and other high end smartphones.
“Our customers can’t
dodge the support bullet. For them support is
key. InnoPath has a lock on delivering products
that help our customers provide better support
and a better subscriber experience. Our customers
told us they wanted a higher performance client
and we listened,” said John Fazio, InnoPath
President and CEO.
Recent phones and devices shipping
with the InnoPath Embedded Client on board include:
- Casio Hitachi: G’zOne Brigade, a MILSPEC,
waterproof and ruggedized QWERTY messaging
phone, and the G’zOne Rock, the ruggedized,
waterproof follow-on to the G’zOne Boulder – both
on Verizon.
- Nokia: Nokia 2705 Switch, a slim, cost effective
flip-phone and the Nokia 7705, a unique qwerty
swivel phone, both for Verizon
- Hitachi: DataXX series - WiMAX/CDMA USB/Express
Card high speed data dongles for KDDI
- LG: OnStar Gen9 for General Motors, VX-8575
Chocolate Touch, a touch screen music phone
for Verizon, and the enV3 VX9200 QWERTY clamshell
follow-on to Verizon’s popular enV2
- Pantech: Impact, a trendy landscape clamshell
QWERTY media texting phone on AT&T with
an impressive OLED display, Opera browser and
of course 3G data.
- Samsung: U490 music slider with Bang & Olufsen
ICEpower, SCH-U450 Intensity, a QWERTY phone,
and the SCH-U640 Convoy, a MILSPEC push-to-talk
ruggedized flip-phone – all for Verizon
InnoPath’s client is central
to the successes North American operators have
demonstrated over the last year with over 4 million
successful firmware updates. These updates generated
an estimated $140 million of savings through
the use of the company’s ActiveCare Mobile
Update solution.
InnoPath will be at the 2010 Mobile
World Congress in Barcelona February 15-18, with
demos of the InnoPath ActiveCare Postload Client
on Android, RIM, Symbian and Windows Mobile.
About InnoPath
InnoPath, the global leader in
Over-the-Air delivery of customer care, helps
operators and mobile device makers reduce support
costs while providing a better end-user experience
by diagnosing, updating and fixing mobile phones
and other devices Over-the-Air. InnoPath products
help shorten or prevent support calls and drive
first call resolutions. The company’s extensive
experience in production Tier-1 networks helps
ensure rapid and successful deployments in large,
complex environments. With a proven value proposition,
the payback time for an operator deploying InnoPath
ActiveCare is usually less than one year. Our
customers include AT&T, Verizon, Sprint,
Samsung, LG, KDDI, Tata DoCoMo and China Telecom.
Discover more at our website, www.innopath.com,
and our blog, The CSR, at http://thecsr.blogspot.com/ .
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