July 2004

Intel, the world's largest chip maker, and Hutch, India’s leading cellular service provider, today announced that the two companies will jointly work on the development of smart phone applications in India.

Hutch and Intel will work to develop application(s) for the low-power, space-sensitive cellular phone and PDA market segment. Based on Intel XScale technology, the PXA26x processor family delivers high performance and low power, while providing processing capabilities that allow wireless handsets to respond quickly to performance-intensive applications like MPEG4 video decode, speech and handwriting recognition, and Java* interpretation), application performance levels and physical space-savings, new usage models, its not only life style anymore.

Speaking on why Hutch is focused on smart phone applications, Harit Nagpal, Chief Marketing Officer, said, Today’s India consumers are looking to smart phones to provide a unique experience that cant be achieved by traditional mobile phones. We are excited to collaborate with key international technology partners like Intel to develop applications for smart phones that will benefit everyone from today’s busy executives to youth who enjoy playing games on their handheld. For example, our partnership with Microsoft* resulted in the ActiveSync facility that allows users to view, edit & send documents in the MS Word*, PS PowerPoint* or MS Excel* formats, on their smart phones. We are happy to be working with Intel for application development.

Mr. Jayant Murty, Director, Marketing-South Asia Intel Technology (I) Pvt. Ltd. said, With the convergence of computing and communication, devices like these smart phones, based on Intel Xscale technology, provide numerous opportunities for new and exciting applications. The PXA26x processor family delivers high performance and low power, while providing processing capabilities that allow smart phones to respond quickly to performance-intensive applications like windows media player, speech & handwriting recognition, and email. The Intel PXA26x processor family continues the promise of delivering leadership building blocks based on the Intel Personal Internet Client Architecture (Intel PCA) for the wireless handheld market segment.