Sophia Cradle Provides Useful Tips on BREW

Sophia Cradle's experts provide you with BREW programming tips online

Abstract

KYOTO — January 30, 2004 — Sophia Cradle Incorporated (Headquarter: Kyoto; CEO: Kazunori Sugiyama), an innovative developer of mobile phone software, today announced the release of its original BREW ™ [*1] tips on its web site (BREW FAQ - Useful Know-hows) on January 30. These tips are the culmination of the research and development Sophia Cradle's staff has been doing since its establishment in February 2002. In addition, Sophia Cradle has made itself available for inquiries concerning BREW so that its BREW experts can assist customers.

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In Japan, KDDI has started offering BREW services since February 2003. Currently, twenty-three carriers worldwide have adopted BREW. Despite the increase of BREW services, new developers to the industry are having a tough time because they do not have enough experience with BREW.

To solve this problem, Sophia Cradle has Opened a BREW tips page on its website January 30. The site is open tpo Sophia Cradle customers and all potential costomers who wish use Sophia Cradle products [*2] in the future. Sophia Cradle has the best know-how in Japan because it started BREW system development earlier than any other companies.

On the other hand, Sophia Cradle starts a new online service by taking inquires about BREW and giving inquirers feedback, in order to expand the BREW market as a whole by enriching the content of the Sophia Cradle BREW FAQ web site.

URL of Sophia Cradle BREW FAQ - Useful Tips:

/developer/brew/tqbr/ (Currently in Japanese)

Screenshot of BREW FAQ - Useful Tips Web Site

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Terms

[*1] BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless)

The standard of mobile phone software developed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, released in January 2001. BREW applications work fast no matter what the underlying system software in the handset is. A user can download a compiled BREW application from the Internet and use it with any BREW-enabled handset. The worldwide spread of BREW is remarkable, and there are many network operators that provide BREW services, including Japan's KDDI which started offering it in February 2003.

[*2] BREW products by Sophia Cradle

SophiaFramework: BREW application development framework
/english/products/sophiaframework/

SophiaCompressForBREW: Compression tool for BREW applications
/english/products/sophiacompress_brew/

* Trademarks associated with QUALCOMM Incorpotated and BREW are trademarks and registered trademarks of QUALCOMM Incorporated.

About Sophia Cradle

Sophia Cradle Incorporated is a mobile phone software developer which currently specializes in BREW C++, GUI middleware and mobile Java. Founded in 2002, Sophia Cradle aims to render services to the improvement of everyone's quality of life by creating innovative mobile Internet technology. For more information about Sophia Cradle, please visit www.s-cradle.com/english/.