LONDON—U.K. mobile-phone manufacturer Sendo announced it will use PacketVideo’s mobile multimedia player software as the streaming video application base for the company’s new Z100 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) smart phone. Users can access media applications including video messaging, interactive games, and news and sports highlights.
The tri-band Sendo phone operates on GSM 900, 1800 and 1900 networks, includes a color screen and Microsoft Corp.’s Stinger platform and can play MP3, WMA audio files and MPEG-4 video.
The Z100 is Sendo’s first data phone and is based on Microsoft’s smart phone operating system, Stinger.
“Our aim is to deliver on the needs of today’s mobile operators. Based on feedback from them on how we can help them to increase their revenues, we believe that services such as video will help drive consumer usage over the GSM and 2.5G networks,” said Hugh Brogan, chief executive officer of Sendo. “Together with PacketVideo, we can offer our mobile operator customers an integrated software services and phone package which offers rich mobile multimedia features over 2.5G networks.”
