Imagination launches HelloSoft 4G VoLTE platform and SDK in Japan

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16 November 2011

Yokohama, Japan: Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia andcommunications technologies company, is bringing the latest in its HelloSoft 4G V.VoIP andVoLTE solutions for smartphones, tablets, and mobile computing devices to EmbeddedTechnology in Yokohama Japan (Nov 16-18, Pacifico, Yokohama; Imagination booth D-35).

Imagination’s HelloSoft V.VoIP (voice and video over IP) SDK’s enable the most comprehensivemultiplatform mobile device solutions in the world for delivering the full range of two-way real timecommunications including Voice over LTE (VoLTE), Voice Call Continuity (VCC) Video and Voiceover IP (V.VoIP) and SMS over IP.

Imagination's VoLTE solution is fully standards compliant with 3GPP Voice over LTE and IR-92specifications, and incorporates award winning multiplatform HelloSoft VoIP technology featuringAEC (Acoustic Echo Cancellation) and NC (Noise Cancellation) to produce superior voice qualityon 4G mobile devices.

Says Tony King-Smith, VP marketing, Imagination: “VoLTE is the future of cellular voicecommunications and is beginning deployment now. It’s exciting to see VoLTE open up a widerange of new use cases and capabilities for voice-based communications, evolving voice frombasic audio telephony into a highly integrated capability permeating all aspects of smartphonefunctionality. We are excited by the prospects for Imagination’s technologies being at the forefrontof this evolution.”

The HelloSoft V.VoIP SDK and VoLTE solutions are ideal for mobile device developers, OEMsand carriers. The products offer developers, OEMs and carriers outstanding voice quality over 4GLTE networks, and at the same time provide a path to rapid development of innovative nextgeneration voice enabled applications.

Says Allan Johnson, general manager, HelloSoft V.VoIP at Imagination Technologies: “Carriernetwork interoperability can be very complex and achieving outstanding voice quality is difficultacross varied network conditions. Furthermore, achieving highly reliable performance on a diverserange of mobile device chipset architectures is challenging. To solve this, we created easy to useAPIs that are portable across Android, iOS, Linux and Windows operating systems for essentially‘write once, run anywhere’ code while at the same time providing SDK implementations that arehighly optimized across processor and modem architectures. Imagination’s HelloSoft V.VoIP SDKsand VoLTE solution are simply the most comprehensive high performance multiplatform solutionson the market for voice and video over IP on 4G mobile devices.”

Imagination’s HelloSoft voice and video over IP products also include field proven Dual RadioVoice Call Continuity (DR-VCC) technology with capability to support Single Radio VCC.

Combined with the HelloSoft VoLTE solution, HelloSoft VCC enables seamless handoff of VoIPand circuit switched calls across 4G/3G/2G networks and also between multiple IP networks suchas LTE, WiFi and WiMAX.

Imagination’s HelloSoft V.VoIP solution is also available as a complete turn-key client.

Kineto Wireless

Kineto Wireless, a key innovator and leading supplier of Smart Wi-Fi solutions for mobileoperators, has licensed Imagination’s HelloSoft Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) and NoiseCancellation (NC) technologies. These will enable best quality audio for Kineto’s Smart Wi-Fisolutions for mobile operators.

Imagination’s award winning HelloSoft V.VoIP (video and voice over IP) client solutions andtechnology components are available on smartphones, tablets, PCs and other mobile devices.Kineto is shipping the solution in over 25 Android handsets to date.

Says Mark Powell, Vice President and Co-founder of Kineto Wireless: “Imagination’s expertise inecho cancellation and noise cancellation algorithms has enabled superior quality mobile VoIP forour Smart Wi-Fi solutions, significantly enhancing the end user experience. Kineto’s primaryconsideration was audio quality across a wide range of operating conditions and Imagination’ssolution offered the best performance.”

About HelloSoft V.VoIP

Imagination’s HelloSoft range of licensable IP includes comprehensive platforms for high quality,power-efficient VoLTE, VoIP, Video over IP and rich communications for multi-mode wireless andwireline devices.

HelloSoft technologies are ‘carrier-grade’ and deployed in millions of devices, built on years ofengineering experience to ensure that they are ready for the most extensive of commercialnetwork deployments, and are available for Android, iPhone, Windows and Linux platforms.

About Imagination Technologies

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE:IMG) – a global leader in multimedia andcommunication technologies – creates and licenses market-leading multimedia IP cores forgraphics, video, and display processing, multi-threaded embedded processing/DSP cores andmulti-standard communications and connectivity processors. These silicon intellectual property(IP) solutions for systems-on-chip (SoC) are complemented by platform level IP and services, astrong array of software tools and drivers and extensive developer and middleware ecosystems.Target markets include mobile phone, handheld multimedia, home consumer entertainment,

mobile and low-power computing, and in-car electronics. Its licensees include many of the leadingsemiconductor and consumer electronics companies. Imagination has corporate headquarters inthe United Kingdom and US headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, with sales and R&D officesworldwide. See: www.imgtec.com.

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