Taproot Systems Inc. Announces Latest Symbian OS Support for Leading WLAN (802.11) Chipsets for Mobile Devices

TapRoot Systems Inc., a leading provider of embedded
software solutions and reference platforms for smartphones, today
announced that its WLAN software solution is available for all 9.x
releases of Symbian OS.
TapRoot's production ready software solution contains the key WLAN
features necessary to support enterprise class applications for dual
mode handsets.
"Symbian OS is designed to enable a mass market for enhanced
communications and information services based on mobile phones," said
Jorgen Behrens, Vice President of Product Management and Strategy.
"Taproot is a valued partner and Symbian welcomes the availability of
Taproot's WLAN solution complementing Symbian's native support for
Wifi in Symbian OS v9.3 announced 12th July 2006."
The TapRoot WLAN solution is working and available with support
for leading WLAN (802.11) chipset manufacturers including Philips,
Texas Instruments and Marvell. Additionally, TapRoot's WLAN product is
being demonstrated on several mobile phone reference platforms using a
variety of bus interfaces (e.g. SDIO, SPI and custom).
"TI has long been a leading supplier of mobile WLAN chipsets, and
we are excited to extend our work to include collaboration with WLAN
SW leaders like TapRoot," said Paul Werp, TI's Business Director of
Mobile Connectivity Solutions. "By working with TapRoot to combine
their Symbian and Wi-Fi experience with TI's WiLink(TM) family of
mobile WLAN single-chip solutions, we can meet the crucial demand for
Symbian-based mobile WLAN solutions in the smartphone market."
"TapRoot has been delivering 802.11 software solutions for
smartphones since 2002; by keeping up to date with the latest Symbian
OS platform releases we continue to offer a time to market advantage
to our handset customers," said TapRoot's CEO, Hugh Thomas. "Our WLAN
certification service also guarantees compliance with the stringent
Wifi Alliance(R) interoperability tests and our in-house test lab
supports carrier specific compliance testing."
TapRoot has worked with global carriers and handset OEMs to launch
dual-mode handsets, including devices deployed on NTT DoCoMo's network
in Japan. TapRoot offers additional production ready software products
and system integration services to Symbian licensees to complement
Symbian OS. This enables full production, dual-mode, smartphones to be
created and deployed in the shortest possible time.

About Symbian

Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses
Symbian OS, the market leading open operating system for advanced,
data-enabled mobile phones, also known as smartphones.
Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset
manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships
with leading companies across the mobile industry. At the end of Q1
2006 70.5 million Symbian OS phones had been shipped by licensees
worldwide to over 250 major network operators.
Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with
offices in the United States, Europe (England and Sweden (UIQ
Technology AB)), Israel and Asia (India, P.R. China, Korea, and
Japan).