Kyocera's QCP 6035 Smartphone Receives 3G Industry Achievement Award from the CDMA...

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HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 13, 2001

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Kyocera Wireless Corp. today announced that the Kyocera QCP(TM) 6035 received the 3G Industry

The award was presented to Kyocera on Tuesday, June 12, 2001 at the 3G World Congress in Hong Kong.

The 3G Industry Achievement Awards recognize significant contributions by companies and individuals toward the advancement of wireless technology. The Kyocera QCP 6035 smartphone was chosen for its ergonomic design and unique functionality, which integrates voice communications, text messaging, wireless e-mail and multiple wireless Web access technologies with the large screen and huge applications library of the Palm OS(R) handheld computing platform.

"Kyocera Wireless Corp. is proud to accept the 3G Industry Achievement Award for the Kyocera QCP 6035 smartphone," said Masahiro Inoue, president and CEO of Kyocera Wireless Corp. "Kyocera's smartphone provides a model for the next generation of wireless phones, that will combine high-speed data services of 3G wireless technologies with large, easy to read screens and a handheld computing platform. In this way, the wireless phone evolves to become a true wireless Internet terminal that can be customized with unique applications to meet the needs of both consumers and enterprise users."

The 3G Subscriber Technology award recognizes handsets that demonstrate innovative thinking in both physical design and services supported," said Perry LaForge, executive director of the CDMA Development Group. "The Kyocera smartphone's unique blend of ergonomic design features, PDA functions and support for multiple wireless browser technologies creates a state of the art handset that points the way toward a new generation of 3G-capable wireless devices."

Kyocera's QCP 6035 smartphone offers a built-in speakerphone, voice-activated dialing and a convenient jog-dial for accessing phone settings, contact information and call history. With the Palm OS v3.5 and 8 MB of memory, the QCP 6035 can run thousands of applications written for the Palm OS platform. The Kyocera QCP 6035 supports multiple wireless Web access technologies, including HTML browsers with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption to provide security for confidential data, making the QCP 6035 a robust platform for m-commerce and enterprise information management. Users can also access corporate or personal e-mail accounts using integrated wireless e-mail applications.