Automotive Mobile Audio Video

Matsushita Communication Industrial Company, Limited, a Panasonic Group Company, and Unwired Planet, Inc.(TM) (UP), today announced a joint collaboration aimed at creating Internet-enabled mobile phones.

The effort will result in devices that integrate Panasonic's worldwide line of mobile phones for GSM, PDC, and PHS, with Unwired Planet's micro-browser. The resulting mobile phones will allow users to access Internet-based information services, Email, as well as information from corporate intranet applications.

"We have fully committed ourselves to develop products most suited for the rapidly growing personal mobile computing market in the world," said Susumu Harashima, senior managing director in charge of the telecommunications business group of Matsushita Communication. "We believe that Unwired Planet's HDML-based micro-browser technology is an ideal solution for our objectives."

"We are excited at the prospect of collaborating with Panasonic on HDML based mobile phones," said Alain Rossmann, chairman and chief executive officer of Unwired Planet. "We feel that Panasonic's advanced mobile phone technology provides an ideal basis for the integration of HDML-based micro-browser technology."

Matsushita Communication Industrial Company, Limited is an affiliated company of Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, Limited, whose charter is to address mainly telecommunications, professional/industrial audio-video, automotive electronics, and information systems industries. In the telecommunications product arena, Matsushita Communication Industrial is a leading supplier of infrastructure products of PHS, a part of PDC (Japan digital cellular system) and a variety of business communication systems, as well as cellular, cordless and pager terminal products. The company is known as the largest supplier of PDC cellular phones and PHS handsets for the Japanese market, as well as a leading supplier of GSM handsets for the global market.