Nov. 21, 2006 (Tokyo, Japan)—Acrodea, Inc., has delivered its VIVID UI user interface platform for mobile telephones as an underlying technology implemented in the "Onajimi Sosa" for the 911SH mobile phone to be released by Softbank Mobile Corp.
VIVID UI, a user interface solution for increasingly sophisticated and complex mobile devices, achieves improved usability and provides a content platform that allows customization of the user interface. VIVID UI handles media in various video and image formats enabling superior user interfaces demanded in the mobile telephones of today. Additionally, Acrodea provides VIVID UI Workshop, a set of authoring tools for efficient user interface development. VIVID UI Workshop features a separate development track for UI logic and design, allowing the production of versatile user interfaces.
Softbank Mobile utilizes Vivid UI to achieve the diversified UI menus needed to enable "Onajimi Sosa" functionality. By using Vivid UI, the development of a variety of UI schemes that would conventionally be considered extremely challenging, becomes possible. Acrodea's exceptional user interface customization technology is proven to be a flexible solution and is expected to also expand to services and mobile handsets in global markets.
Acrodea, Inc., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a software company focused on middleware technology for mobile terminals. The company is particularly concentrated on interface technologies connecting the user and terminal, and currently provides user interface technologies and messaging enhancement technologies to the market. Acrodea’s efforts are a continual commitment to superior products and improving technology, for which the company has received recognition worldwide. In addition to Japan and Korea, Acrodea is engaged in business on a global scale, including China, Europe, and North America. The company listed publicly on Mothers Exchange of TSE on Oct. 19, 2006, just two years and three months after its establishment in July 2004. The company has offices in Seoul, Korea; Beijing, China; and Espoo, Finland. For more information,
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