Hon Hai Precision Industry Selects Open-Plug ELIPS Suite for the Development of OEM and Operator Handsets
BARCELONA and TAIPEI, Taiwan, February 27 /PRNewswire/ --
- ELIPS Suite Will Enable Hon Hai Precision Industry to Rapidly Develop
Mass Market Phones Across Multiple Chipsets
Open-Plug, the specialist in software development environment for mass
market phones and portable devices, today announced it has been selected by
Hon Hai Precision Industry (commonly known as Foxconn) to deliver its ELIPS
Suite for the development of mass market phones for OEMs and Operators.
ELIPS Suite is a comprehensive reference application suite integrating
best of breed applications from leading ISVs enabling rapid development of
multimedia touchscreen-enabled mobile phones with appealing user interfaces
and features like Dynamic Application Download, multitasking, WAP, MMS, Java,
MEPG4, MP3, SyncML, DRM, Complex Languages, Predictive Text inputs, etc.
ELIPS Suite is currently available on most of the leading chipset platforms
and can be easily ported on all new EDGE & 3G chipsets to be unveiled by
chipset vendors, thus enabling the re-use of existing code and reducing
significantly new handset development costs.
"It was important for Hon Hai Precision Industry to select a robust
solution that helps us bring highly customizable products faster to market
while allowing us to quickly and fully re-use our software investment across
all our current and future hardware platforms," said a Hon Hai Precision
Industry Executive. "Open-Plug's technology is second to none and we are
absolutely convinced that it will help us developing what will become a range
of attractive device variants while staying competitive moving forward."
"We have now been working with Hon Hai Precision Industry for a few
months and we are impressed by their strong technical capabilities and
achievements," said Eric Baissus, CEO of Open-Plug. "We believe that by
leveraging our technologies and our portable application suite, they will
deliver competitive products at an unbeatable price point, leading to key
design wins with major customers."
The ELIPS Suite is based on a unique component technology, patented by
Open-Plug, that simplifies all phases of mobile phone software development,
integration, validation and deployment. It enables mobile operators and
handset makers to create, update and customize their phones, even post-sales
with features like Dynamic Application Download and OTA.
About Open-Plug
Open-Plug creates and commercializes ELIPS, the first open application
development environment designed for mass-market mobile phones. Already
shipped in millions of devices, ELIPS enables software companies, handset
makers and operators to create and deploy mobile applications, rich user
interfaces as well as complete software solution, in record time.
Founded in 2002, Open-Plug is a private company financed by leading
international venture capital investors. Headquartered in France, the company
also operates in Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C. Open-Plug is a member of the LiMo
Foundation (Linux Mobile Foundation).
