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TABLETmedia ANNOUNCES THE MOST ADVANCED INTEGRATED VOIP, VIDEO AND MESSAGING CLIENT SOFTWARE FOR MOBILE DEVICES

February 23, 2004, 3GSM World Congress, Cannes, France. TABLETmedia, Inc. announced today that its next generation version of iFon™ client software for PDAs and smarthpones running Windows Mobile 2003 and Smartphone 2003 is now available. This new release greatly extends the current support of the SIP protocol adding messaging as well as enhanced telephony capabilities and voice quality. It also natively supports Intel's next generation processor feauring Xscale® technology with wireless MMX™.

"iFon™ has truly become the universal tool of mobile communications, a proverbial Swiss Army™ Knife. With the new release, people are able to simultaneously connect to both H.323 and SIP infrastructures to make voice and video calls. In addition, during a SIP call, users can talk, see each other and even exchange text messages" says Alessandro Gatti, President of TABLETmedia, Inc. "With our enhanced voice performance, proprietary advanced network and power management support, iFon™ continues as the most advanced and reliable communication client for mobile devices."

iFon™ now offers several additional unique features, including:

  • Voice quality latencies better or comparable to cellular telephones.
  • Advanced telephony capabilities, such as call hold, attended call transfer and blind call transfer.
  • SIP Authentication support (Digest/MD5)
  • SIP Messages can be exchanged before making calls.
  • High-level of SIP interoperability with several test endpoints, including MS Messenger and NetMeeting, Cisco, PingTel, Mitel, Ericsson, Siemens, Snom, Tandberg, etc.
  • Support of out-of-band DTMF digits (RFC2833) and in-band as real touch-tones. Also support Flash/Hook signals.
  • Line signaling tones synthesized to easily support multi-national requirements.

TABLETmedia now delivers the product requirements of customers in enterprises and vertical markets as well as network operators who have been looking for an advanced, integrated and interoperable application for mobile devices to directly plug into their infrastructure.

"In the growing IP communication field, there is no one-size-fits- all and TABLETmedia leads the market in bringing the true benefit of IP to wireless devices, well beyond voice alone" said Gatti. "With programmable PDAs and smartphones as the fastest growing sector among mobile devices for mobile professionals, this is a natural opportunity for users to enhance their communication experience.

iFon™ began shipping in early 2002. The new release will be available for Windows Mobile 2003 in March 2004 and for Smartphone in June 2004.

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About TABLETmedia, Inc.
TABLETmedia, Inc. is the leader of interactive IP-based communication solutions for mobile platforms that are developed and distributed to manufacturers and integrators. Using advanced integration, communication and compression technologies, TABLETmedia has been the first company in the world to turn PDAs into ITU-T H.323 and IETF SIP standards-based wireless telephones and videoconferencing devices operating on any type of wireless data networks. TABLETmedia's iFon™ enables enterprises to deploy previously unfeasible mobile video applications, such as remote surveillance, field support and training. Employee productivity and efficiency are greatly improved while reducing costs simply by extending through wireless VoIP (or VoWLAN) the existing corporate telephony infrastructure to wireless mobile devices such as PDA-based phones. More information on TABLETmedia is available at http://www.tabletmedia.com.

TABLETmedia and iFon and associated design marks and logos are trademarks of TABLETmedia, Inc..
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Contacts:
TABLETmedia, Inc.
Alessandro Gatti
+1 (415) 567-8100 x 202
infoweb@tabletmedia.com