SlashPhone » Zi http://www.slashphone.com Worldwide mobile phone news, reviews and wireless innovations Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:57:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Sony Ericsson Intends to Offer Zi User Input and Usability Technology on the Majority of its Phones http://www.slashphone.com/sony-ericsson-intends-to-offer-zi-user-input-and-usability-technology-on-the-majority-of-its-phones-161840 http://www.slashphone.com/sony-ericsson-intends-to-offer-zi-user-input-and-usability-technology-on-the-majority-of-its-phones-161840#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:29:27 +0000 Kim Poh Liaw http://www.slashphone.com/?p=1840 Zi announced that Sony Ericsson has agreed to expand its existing licensing relationship with Zi Corporation. Under the terms of the new arrangement, Zi Corporation will continue supplying Sony Ericsson with both predictive text and handwriting recognition technology. The new agreement is expected to increase 33% revenues this year from shipments of Zi’s predictive text software compare to last year.

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Commenting on the transaction, Milos Djokovic, President and Chief Executive Officer of Zi Corporation, stated, “Sony Ericsson has demonstrated their commitment to offer a broad range of world class handsets that both simplify and enrich the wireless communication experience of their consumers. Sony Ericsson’s choice of Zi as their primary user input technology partner further validates our technology leadership. It is a pleasure for us to report on the continuation and the expansion of our relationship with this industry leader.”

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]]> http://www.slashphone.com/sony-ericsson-intends-to-offer-zi-user-input-and-usability-technology-on-the-majority-of-its-phones-161840/feed 0 Samsung Phones Feature Chinese Text Input from Zi Corporation http://www.slashphone.com/samsung-phones-feature-chinese-text-input-from-zi-corporation-211346 http://www.slashphone.com/samsung-phones-feature-chinese-text-input-from-zi-corporation-211346#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:41:27 +0000 Kim Poh Liaw http://www.slashphone.com/?p=1346 Zi Corporation today announced Samsung has integrated Zi Corporation’s eZiText and Decuma text entry solutions onto its L258 and G618 handsets in China. Decuma Chinese V4.1 handwriting recognition technology bundled with predictive text entry software eZiText, to provide Samsung with a complete text input solution.

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Samsung L258

The Company’s products have been licensed to Samsung for use on the L258 handset, which went on sale this spring in China. The G618 handset has received extensive press coverage as Samsung’s donation to athletes, coaches and staff for the Chinese Olympic Team.

Milos Djokovic, President and CEO of Zi Corporation said, “Our product penetration in the Chinese market is currently very widespread and this latest deal, with one of the world’s top handset manufacturers, again highlights the development and reliability of our text entry portfolio. We are delighted that Samsung has chosen our bundled solution for two handsets and the combination of handwriting recognition and keypad input is something many OEM’s are really starting to take advantage of.”

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Samsung G618

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