Sophia Cradle Upgrades BREW SDK Switching Tool with Support for " BREW Client 4-Series "

A tool to switch among many BREW development environments including BREW Client 4-Series ( BREW 4.0 ) with only 1 click

Abstract

KYOTO — June 28, 2007 — Sophia Cradle Incorporated (Headquarter: Kyoto; CEO: Kazunori Sugiyama), an innovative developer of mobile phone software, today announced to release an updated version of its BREW SDK switching tool BREW SDK Switcher 3.0. The new version offers support for BREW Client 4-Series ( BREW 4.0 ). BREW SDK Switcher 3.0 is provided to users of SophiaFramework or SophiaCompress(BREW) for free at Sophia Cradle website from June 28, 2007.

User Interface of BREW SDK Switcher 3.0

Full Story

The number of cell phones equipped with BREW [*1] has been increasing dramatically, and QUALCOMM Incorporated announced its new BREW Client 4-Series ( BREW 4.0 ) on June 21, 2007.

BREW SDK [*2] has now multilingual support and is available in several versions, currently up to BREW Client 4-Series ( BREW 4.0 ). In order to develop applications using different BREW versions in one computer, a programmer needs to manually change the BREW SDK.

Sophia Cradle's BREW SDK Switcher is a tool that helps you easily switch BREW environments with just one click. The new BREW SDK switcher 3.0 supports BREW Client 4-Series ( BREW 4.0 ).

Availability :
BREW SDK Switcher 3.0 is provided to users of SophiaFramework [*3] or SophiaCompress(BREW) [*4] for free at Sophia Cradle website from June 28, 2007.

BREW SDK Switcher URL :
/english/products/brewtools/sdkswitcher.html

Press Release URL :
/english/news/pressrelease/2007/20070628.html

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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 currently 69 network operators in 32 countries (as of June 2007) that provide BREW services, including Japan's KDDI that started offering it in February 2003.

[*2] BREW SDK

BREW standard development kit provided by QUALCOMM. The BREW SDK has a set of API's that facilitate the development of applications for BREW handsets. The latest version of BREW SDK is " 4.0 ".

[*3] SophiaFramework

An object-oriented development environment for BREW applications released by Sophia Cradle Incorporated in August 2002. It includes various program modules called classes that are needed to develop any kind of BREW applications, such as user interface, communication, graphic drawing and string processing. The technology of SophiaFramework is now being used in many commercial BREW applications and official KDDI applications that are top-sellers in Japan.

More about SophiaFramework : /english/products/sophiaframework/index.html

[*4] SophiaCompress(BREW)

SophiaCompress(BREW) is the only compression tool in the world for BREW applications, it is developed by Sophia Cradle Incorporated. With SophiaCompress(BREW), compiled BREW programs in mod format can be compressed and executed. Many leading game makers, content providers and other organizations have adopted this technology with great results.

More about SophiaCompress(BREW) :/english/products/sophiacompress_brew/index.html

About Sophia Cradle

Sophia Cradle Incorporated is a mobile phone software developer which currently specializes in BREW C++, GUI / XML 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/.

Press Contact
TAKAHASHI Yuri
Marketing Center, Sophia Cradle Incorporated
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