Second order for Low Cost Dev

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Synchronica PLC

03 February 2010

 



Synchronica plc

('Synchronica' or 'the Company')

Second Order for MessagePhone Low-Cost Devices

Synchronica plc, the AIM listed mobile email, instant messaging and data synchronisation provider announces that its partners have received an initial purchase order for 20,000 MessagePhone low-cost mobile devices ("MessagePhones") from one of the largest worldwide operator groups in emerging markets. 

This is the second purchase order received since the collaboration agreement with third parties to design, build, market and sell low cost mobile devices was announced on 7 July 2009. The MessagePhones will utilise the infrastructure provided by Synchronica's Mobile Gateway, building an end-to-end entry-level push email product.  Under the collaboration agreement, Synchronica will receive a commission of 3% of the net sales revenue from the sales of the MessagePhones. This revenue will be in addition to licence, professional services, support and hosting revenues from Mobile Gateway. 

The MessagePhone is optimized for push email and mobile synchronisation services provided by Synchronica Mobile Gateway, provides a full HTML web browser and access to social networking sites. The partners will officially introduce the MessagePhone to the market on February 10^th, 2010.

A recent report by Informa estimates the mobile social networking market will undergo substantial growth over the next 3 years. At the end of 2008, there were approximately 92.5 million mobile social networking users globally, with conservative estimates putting this number at 641.6 million by 2013.  With mobile social networking activities ranging from simple chat services to multimedia-rich dialogue, the MessagePhone support all levels of networking that the user requires.

Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica, said, "Synchronica's technology and end-to-end solutions enable operators to supply low cost devices to emerging markets and meet the increasing demand for devices that can facilitate next-generation messaging and mobile social networking. The order from such a dominant operator in the telecommunications market and in Latin America shows the traction of Synchronica's product in regions where PC ownership is low and where operators can offer email and mobile synchronisation direct to customers on a low cost device."

The revenue from this order will be recognised in the financial year ending 31 December 2010.

Enquiries:

Synchronica plc www.synchronica.com	Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO  Angus Dent, CFO Nicole Meissner, COO	[phone] [phone] [phone]
FinnCap	Charles Cunningham, Nomad	[phone]
	Stephen Norcross,  Corporate Broker	[phone]
Walbrook PR Ltd	Ben Knowles	[phone] [phone] [e-mail]

About Synchronica

Synchronica plc is the leading developer of industry-standard mobile push email and synchronization solutions. The award-winning product portfolio includes the flagship email and synchronization solution Mobile Gateway, and the device backup solution, Mobile Backup. Mobile operators in emerging and developed markets use Synchronica's white-labelled products to offer their consumer and business subscriber's mobile email, PIM synchronization, and backup and restore services.

Synchronica's Mobile Gateway provides a unique multi-protocol gateway combining Push IMAP, SyncML, Email-to-MMS and Email-to-SMS, delivering push email and synchronization to literally any mobile phone currently in the market today. The device backup solution Synchronica Mobile Backup, also based on industry-standards, reaches the built-in synchronization clients of more than 2 billion mobile phones worldwide, without requiring an additional client to be downloaded.

Headquartered in England, Synchronica also maintains a development centre in Germany, in addition to a regional presence in the USA, Hong Kong and Dubai. Synchronica plc is a public company traded on the AIM list of the London Stock Exchange (SYNC.L). For further information please visit www.synchronica.com.

 

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