| Remoba
Inc.
Official Press Releases
September
17, 2003
Remo™, Comprehensive Connectivity Solution For Mobile
Subscribers, is launched
An Integrated Productivity Wireless Solution,
Remo Combines Email, Contacts, and Calendar Functionality
on BREW™- enabled Mobile Phones
SAN JOSE, CA, September 17, 2003 - Xpherix™
Corporation, the leading provider of personalized mobile connectivity
solutions, today announced the introduction of Remo™,
a comprehensive connectivity solution for mobile subscribers,
developed for QUALCOMM's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless™
(BREW) platform. For less than $8 per month, Remo is a powerful
communications tool that provides integrated remote access
to Email, contacts, and calendars on everyday data-enabled
phones.
Remo is designed to address the millions
of PC and mobile phone users who remain disconnected from
vital information while out of the office because they simply
cannot or will not pay the increasing costs for a Blackberry®,
Smartphone, or other high-priced hybrid devices. Between purchase
prices, set-up costs and monthly subscription fees, such devices
can cost more than $800 in the first year alone.
"Remo affordably delivers productive
communication convenience to mobile phone customers,"
stated Nick Walker, CEO of Xpherix Corporation. "Mobile
professionals can now stay in touch and up-to-date with one
device for about 25 cents a day. Additionally, we are making
mobile life easier. Traveling with multiple devices can be
really painful; especially through airports with the new security
screening. Remo allows business travelers to leave their laptops
in the office and carry the single device they always have
anyway - a mobile phone."
"Xpherix' productivity tools are
an important addition to wireless data offerings available
to millions of BREW users around the globe," said Gina
Lombardi, senior vice president of marketing and product management,
QUALCOMM Internet Services. "Xpherix' Remo serves as
a testament to the innovative possibilities made possible
by developers creating content for the BREW system."
Road warriors are not only looking for
a less expensive solution, they are also looking to lighten
their load when traveling or away from the office. Between
mobile phones, laptops, PDAs, Blackberry-like devices, and
pagers, mobile professionals have had to juggle multiple devices
to remain productive. Remo wirelessly connects mobile professionals
to critical information held in
their PC at a fraction of the cost of current solutions and
does it by using the most useful device - the mobile phone.
Using Remo's Get Email function, which
provides access to up to seven different, user-specified,
POP or POP3 Email accounts, subscribers can easily view, reply,
and send Email right from their mobile phone. Remo's Calendar
function enables subscribers to use the mobile phone to view,
add, edit or delete calendar events stored in their home or
office computer, even when the computer isn't on. Any changes
made on the phone are automatically synchronized back to their
Microsoft Outlook® calendar. The Contacts function enables
subscribers to access phone numbers, addresses, Email addresses
and even the notes field from applications including Microsoft
Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express® or Palm™ software.
With the touch of a button, subscribers
may also download names, numbers and Email addresses directly
into the phone's built-in phonebook. This 'Push-to-Phone'
function is especially useful for loading the phone's address
book, automatically and painlessly, removing the need to type
in contact details using the phone's keypad. In addition,
Remo provides camera phone users an easy way to wirelessly
load Email addresses into phones so that they can send pictures
to friends and family without having to type out Email addresses
using the phone's keypad.
To help further address the sometimes
frustrating letter entry function on mobile phones, Remo offers
a 'Quick Message' response feature for Email correspondence.
Subscribers may save up to 50 common Email responses and the
product comes preloaded with 22 'Quick Messages' which the
user can easily tailor. For Emails in need of more immediate,
specific or lengthy attention, Remo's integrated contacts
capability allows users to easily respond to an Email with
a phone call without having to change devices or manually
enter phone numbers.
Remo is the latest addition to Xpherix'
award-winning product set. Only two months after its launch,
Xpherix' first BREW product, iPhonebook, was recognized as
the "Best Productivity Application" at Qualcomm's
BREW Developer Conference.
Pricing and Availability
Remo will initially be available on LG's VX-6000 handset and
will also be available in the future through other BREW-enabled
phones. Users will be able to download the application for
about $8.00 monthly access, in addition to airtime used. More
information about Remo and supported phones can be found at
www.remomobile.com.
Xpherix Corporation currently has
relationships with national wireless carriers such as Verizon
Wireless, Alltel Communications, US Cellular Corporation and
Midwest Wireless who offer Xpherix' initial applications,
iPhonebook™ and iDatebook™. iPhonebook and iDatebook
are also currently offered by BellSouth Colombia.
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