ALLENTOWN, Pa.—Agere Systems said NEC has standardized Agere’s GPRS cell phone platform for new i-mode products. According to Agere, its platform, which uses hardware and software to develop and customize cell phones for high-speed data applications, reduces product development and network approval time by as much as 50 percent.
“This time-to-market advantage provided by Agere’s platform solution has enabled NEC to become an early entrant into the GPRS handset market,” said Yoshiharu Tamura, assistant general manager of NEC’s mobile terminals division. “The fact that our phones have been approved for use in multiple markets by multiple operators is testament to Agere’s core technology and systems design expertise.”
