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BREW News - Volume 3, Number 6

> Telefónica Móviles (TEM) Perú Joins Rapidly Expanding List of Operators Supporting the BREW Solution
> Qualcomm Hosts Successful BREW 2003 - Seoul Developers Conference
> Verizon Wireless Launches First BREW 2.0-Enabled Phone in the U.S.
> Animate Your BREW Applications with the SharpMotionART Extension
> Developer Spotlight: BREW Welcomes New Partners

Telefónica Móviles (TEM) Perú Joins Rapidly Expanding List of Operators Supporting the BREW Solution

Telefónica Móviles (TEM) Perú, a leading communications provider in South America, recently announced the company has signed a definitive agreement to deploy downloadable wireless applications and services based on Qualcomm's BREW solution. The agreement and pending launch mark the first time BREW-enabled products and services will be available to wireless subscribers in Perú. TEM Perú will make a variety of BREW-based applications - including games, ring tones, information directories and location-based services - commercially available in the last quarter of this year.

Read press release.

Qualcomm Hosts Successful BREW 2003 - Seoul Developers Conference

Approximately 450 developers attended BREW 2003 - Seoul, Qualcomm's inaugural developers conference in South Korea on July 14, 2003. Developers from South Korea, Brazil, China, Japan and the United States attended the conference to learn more about creating BREW-based content for KTF as well as for other operators around the world offering BREW-based services. Operators including KTF and KDDI as well as BREW Global Publishers from around the world spoke to attendees at the conference about the worldwide market for BREW-based applications and how to make the most of it by creating and exporting content using the BREW solution.

Eleven developers were presented with awards for developing outstanding applications and for their contributions to the success of the BREW solution in Korea. Developers honored with an award included Anicom Software, Com2us, ENTAZ, Intromobile, Mobileon, NeoMtel, Softnyx, Utofos, WisePacket, Inc., Wiz Communication and XcrossNet.

Stay tuned for more news on upcoming developers conferences and BREW training seminars being held worldwide.

Verizon Wireless Launches First BREW 2.0-Enabled Phone in the U.S.

LG Mobile Phones and Verizon Wireless recently launched the first BREW 2.0-enabled phone in the U.S. - the LG VX6000. Get your applications submitted for this phone that's sure to fly off the shelves. The LG VX6000 features a long list of compelling features including:

BREW 2.0
BREW MO-SMS support
BREW QCELP Play and Record
IBITMAP - Bitmap manipulation
ICLIPBOARD - Cut and Paste
IFONT
TFT 120 x 146 16 bit color display
Innovative, stylish clamshell design
Blue Backlit Keypad
5-Way Navigation Key
CMX v.3.0 MIDI for Sounds and Ringers
Large Phone Book (499 Entries; 5 numbers and 3 e-mail addresses per contact)
English and Spanish User Interface
T9 Text Input

Visit the BREW Devices section to check out more commercially available BREW-enabled devices.

Animate Your BREW Applications with the SharpMotionART Extension

Are you looking for a way to add animation to an application or repurpose your existing vector graphic library (Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Macromedia Flash & Freehand, etc.) for BREW?

A solution is available now and you don't need a degree in graphic design to do some really cool stuff. The SharpMotionART authoring tool is made available free of charge* to any developer looking to simplify application development, speed time-to-market and make your apps look top-notch. (*applications using the authoring tool need to do revenue share with Sharp per the BREW extension model)

Here's how to take your existing vector graphics content and repurpose it to create compelling applications for BREW:

Create your vector art (if you haven't already) using the most popular illustration tools, including, Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Macromedia Flash & Freehand.
Open the content in CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator and 'Save As' SVG (see the SharpMotionART authoring tool guide for optimal 'save as' settings.)
Open your artwork in SharpMotionART. The tool will ask you to choose a 'bezier curve' setting between 1-10 to control the number of vector points that are included in the object. (quantity of points impacts file size)

And you're ready to animate! Download the authoring tool documentation: http://galamo.com/sharpmotionart/help/atoolbrew.pdf.

For more information, visit http://galamo.com/sharpmotionart/player/player.html, or contact Sharp at smartbrewbiz@sharpsec.com.

To access the SharpMotionART authoring tool and other BREW extensions, click here .

Developer Spotlight: BREW Welcomes New Partners

Qualcomm would like to recognize some of the newest global publishers and developers supporting the BREW platform. This month we'd like to extend a big welcome to several wireless only European-based publishers including iFone (UK), In-Fusio (France), and Mobilescope (Germany). In addition, TDK Mediactive and Agetec, divisions of Japanese videogame publishers located in the U.S, have also joined the BREW development community. Be on the lookout for applications and extensions these companies are developing for BREW. Welcome aboard!


Agetec	iFone	In-Fusio

Mobilescope	TDK Mediactive