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SoftBank Selects Red Bend Software for Over-the-Air Management
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Red Bend® Software, the market leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM), today announced that SoftBank has selected Red Bend to provide over-the-air software updating and device management for more than 50 percent of its summer lineup of mobile phones. With the inclusion of Red Bend’s vRapid Mobile® and vDirect Mobile™ software, Softbank can easily and reliably deliver new firmware updates over the air (FOTA) and provision new services to mobile consumers consistently across multiple platforms.
Red Bend’s mobile software management solution is available for SoftBank consumers in 10 summer models from leading manufacturers Sharp and NEC. The phones will provide many new and updated services and features, including a Twitter widget. The Red Bend-Enabled™ summer models are:
• Sharp – mirumo2 944SH, AQUOS SHOT 945SH, SOLAR HYBRID 842SH, THE PREMIUM6 WATERPROOF 841SH, 841SH s, 843SH, 945SH G Ver.GP30th, etc.
• NEC – 840N and 841N
These phones from SoftBank join a growing list of mobile devices featuring Red Bend’s software. In the first quarter of 2010, Red Bend’s software products were embedded in 70 million mobile phones, machine-to-machine (M2M) modules, mobile Internet devices (MID), USB modems and WiMAX chipsets, bringing the company’s total shipments to 750 million. Nearly one in four mobile handsets shipped in the quarter was Red Bend-Enabled—making it the company’s strongest quarter ever for deploying its mobile software management solutions.
Red Bend’s vRapid Mobile is the industry’s leading FOTA solution with 64 percent worldwide market share for FOTA-enabled handsets, according to independent research firm Ovum. It enables service providers and device manufacturers to update mobile phone software quickly and cost-effectively by:
• Identifying the essential changes from an existing version of firmware to a new,
updated version.
• Reducing the new updated firmware to a compact package, up to 97 percent smaller
than can be achieved through other techniques, to enable efficient over-the-air
delivery.
• Installing the new firmware within the limited memory available on a wireless device.
• Enhancing the mobile user experience by seamlessly installing new updates and
features in the background while the consumer continues using the phone.
Red Bend’s vDirect Mobile is the industry’s leading independent device management client. It is standards-based software that works with any Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) device management (DM) server. vDirect Mobile enables mobile operators and manufacturers to break the dependency of closed DM systems. Its modular architecture and cross-platform support improves time to market for mobile devices that must comply with operator requirements for OMA DM.
In addition, vDirect Mobile is a full-functioned device management client that delivers provisioning, configuration, device information retrieval and security to meet expanding requirements for mobile software management. It is proven across multiple platforms, operating systems and memory types on feature phones, smartphones, WiMAX devices and M2M modules.
