Adopts Red Bend's Firmware Over-the-Air and Device Management Software
BEIJING, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Red Bend Software, the market leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM), announced today that Haier (Qing Dao) Telecom Co., Ltd. has licensed Red Bend's vCurrent(R) Mobile firmware over-the-air (FOTA) client software and vDirect Mobile(TM) device management software for its HG-V70 GSM mobile phone available for China Mobile Communications Corp. (CMCC) subscribers. Haier Telecom is a subsidiary of the Haier Group, the world's fourth largest household appliances manufacturer. With Red Bend's MSM solutions, users of the HG-V70 can easily and quickly keep their mobile phone software up-to-date with the latest features and performance improvements. Haier plans to adopt vCurrent Mobile and vDirect Mobile for more mobile phone models to be launched in 2009.
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One of Haier's main objectives is to find creative ways to satisfy its users' needs, and it is dedicated to bringing innovative wireless telecommunication technology into its fashionable mobile phone products. Red Bend's MSM solutions give Haier's mobile users a more enriching experience by enabling continuous software improvements while satisfying operators' requirements for device management to easily provision new subscribers and configure applications and network settings.
Red Bend's award-winning MSM solutions have shipped in more than 410 million devices worldwide. vCurrent Mobile FOTA software enables operators and device manufacturers to upgrade software quickly and efficiently over the air. vDirect Mobile, a DM client that is interoperable with standards-based OMA DM servers, allows remote configuration and provisioning of mobile devices.
"Because mobile operators and manufacturers need to increase revenues, reduce support costs and achieve faster time to market, Red Bend's FOTA and device management software have become adopted globally in more than 200 handset models," said Danny Wang, Country Manager of Greater China for Red Bend Software. "Haier is one of three recent Red Bend customers in China, along with Lenovo Mobile and Nollec, that has selected Red Bend for our strong customer support and innovative mobile software management solutions."
Features of the HG-V70
The HG-V70 has a candy bar design with red finishes. Its features include a 65,000-color display, memory card slot, VGA camera polyphonic ringtones and mini USB port.
For more information about the HG-V70, visit: http://www.ehaier.com/static/category-SJ/product-SJ54_3.jsp
About Haier (Qing Dao) Telecom Co., Ltd.
Haier (Qing Dao) Telecom Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary company of Haier Group with the first class SMT soft production line and testing equipment. Its advanced mobile phone manufacturing facilities can produce both GSM and CDMA phones with an annual production capacity at more than 15 million sets. Under the guide of the philosophy of fashion technology, Haier has committed itself to integrate the frontier wireless telecommunication technology into fashionable mobile phone products and to embody new technology by fashion. In addition, Haier mobile has won a number of awards including consecutively four times being highly praised by "CCID China's Mobile Telephone Subscriber Degree of Satisfaction Survey." More information is available at http://mobile.haier.com.
About Red Bend Software
Red Bend Software, the leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM), provides client software for managing firmware, applications and devices over the air. The company's award-winning MSM products enable device manufacturers, mobile operators and software developers to increase revenues, reduce support costs and achieve faster time to market by remotely managing their software assets on mobile devices. Red Bend's software has been deployed in 410 million mobile devices by seven of the top 10 handset manufacturers, including LG Electronics, Motorola, Sharp, Sony Ericsson and ZTE, as well as 30 other leading companies in the mobile, M2M and WiMAX markets. Unlike device management vendors with proprietary end-to-end systems and manufacturers' internally developed solutions that are platform specific, Red Bend is the only company offering independent client software that is interoperable with any standards-based server and that works with any platform on any type of mobile device. Founded in 1999, Red Bend is a privately held, venture capital-financed company with offices in China, Israel, Japan, Korea, the U.K. and the U.S. To learn how Red Bend is bending rules and breaking boundaries with mobile software management, visit http://www.redbend.com .
