Motorola Signs Agreement With PacketVideo to Develop Multimedia Solutions for 3G Mobile Phones

date: March 20, 2002

Motorola announced today that it has selected PacketVideo to provide multimedia solutions for selected, 3G wireless communication devices. As part of the agreement, the companies will work together to enable mobile operators to differentiate their offerings by launching new enhanced mobilemedia services for their subscribers.

"Motorola is forging unique relationships with companies like PacketVideo to help ensure that it can support its customers' roll-out plans for 3G," said John Thode, vice president and general manager of 3G handset development in Motorola's Personal Communications Sector. "Delivering simple, intuitive and easy to use multimedia applications and experiences is a critical element of Motorola's 3G handset strategy and we believe our relationship with PacketVideo will help us provide exciting solutions to our customers."

As part of this agreement, the 3G Motorola device(s) incorporating PacketVideo's technology will include video playback capability via PacketVideo's pvPlayer as well as video capture and encoding capability via PacketVideo's pvAuthor, which enables two-way video communication. The device(s) will be fully interoperable with 3GPP, including PacketVideo's pvServer products.

Kathleen Peters, vice president of worldwide embedded solutions for PacketVideo, siad, "Combining Motorola's expertise in the handset market with PacketVideo's enhanced multimedia system provides mobile operators with a solution that will enable them to deliver rich mobilemedia services to their customers."

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