HANNOVER, Germany-Sharp Corp., which develops mobile electronics, and PacketVideo Corp., a provider of wireless multimedia solutions, announced they will integrate PacketVideo’s technology into Sharp’s new Linux-based wireless personal digital assistants.
PacketVideo will provide Sharp with its PVPlayer, which will allow users to view wireless multimedia applications including news, sports, traffic and live video, with full-motion video and audio via the new PDA.
“Our adoption of PacketVideo’s wireless multimedia technology enables us to support the leading wireless multimedia services and MPEG-4 technologies that mobile operators need of the emerging wireless media market,” commented Hiroshi Uno, general manager of Sharp’s Mobile Systems division.
