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Nuance 'Flattens' Mobile World Congress 2008 with T9 Nav™ Predictive Search Service
MWC delegates can download T9 Nav to quickly access city information and congress exhibitor locations
BARCELONA, February 11, 2008 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), the world’s leading supplier of speech, smart keypad and imaging solutions, today announced that a special trial edition of T9 Nav™, a mobile discovery solution that provides a fast way to access all features, applications and content on a mobile device in just a few key presses, is available for download by Mobile World Congress attendees. Nuance will showcase T9 Nav at Mobile World Congress, the world’s leading conference and exhibition for mobile communication, taking place from 11-14 February 2008 in Barcelona.
T9 Nav is simple and powerful mobile discovery software that significantly improves the mobile user experience by allowing users to bypass button-driven menu systems which often require complex combinations of key presses, offering a fast, direct and repeatable way to access features and content on the phone. It intelligently adapts to user behaviour over time, reordering and predicting frequently searched terms using the industry leading, patented algorithms from XT9/T9 software.
This “Barcelona Edition” of T9 Nav showcases the basic functionality and customisable keyword feature of the software in a way that is relevant and useful to anyone attending Mobile World Congress. Show delegates can easily find exhibitor information including booth locations, maps, key contacts and product/service descriptions as well as information about Barcelona such as listings for restaurants, hotels, and tourist information by simply typing in the first few letters of whatever they are looking for. The Barcelona Edition is available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
Using T9 Nav is extremely easy: for example typing "m-u" (i.e., "6-8") from the home screen of the phone takes the user directly to the music player application, a link to information on Barcelona museums and the Nuance Communications exhibitor listing as well as other device features, content and applications beginning with those letters. T9 Nav also adapts to user behaviour over time to provide customised search results based on frequently accessed features and content.
Says Eric Collins, General Manager for Nuance’s T9 Business Unit: “Nuance Mobile Solutions make it easier to control mobile devices, automate customer services, and access and discover even the most advanced mobile applications and content - regardless of technical know-how, location, environment or physical and literacy capabilities. By offering T9 Nav as a trial download at the show, Nuance provides a sneak peek at the power and potential of this software to simplify and enhance the way millions of people worldwide use their phone, making mobile content, information and services accessible in just a few clicks.”
Show delegates can download T9 Nav at the Nuance booth in Hall 2-2D88 or at www.nuance.com/mwc2008/, to experience firsthand how T9 Nav makes mobile search and discovery easy. The trial software expires on March 15, one month after the close of Mobile World Congress 2008. Nuance is planning to launch a commercially available download of T9 Nav on the Nuance website and various partner sites by the end of the second quarter 2008.
As handsets become more sophisticated in form and function, Nuance Mobile’s technologies are focused on delivering intelligent and automated services and device interfaces based upon smart text input, speech and innovative search technologies. T9 Nav is part of the Nuance portfolio since the acquisition of Tegic – developer of industry-leading T9 predictive text input software – in late 2007.
Pricing and Availability
Nuance will launch T9 Nav™ at the end of the second quarter in 2008. The Barcelona Edition is available for free today in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Visit Nuance at Hall 2, Stand 2D88 to benefit from it on your Nokia S60 3rd Edition device today!
For more information about Nuance’s family of mobile technologies and solutions showcased at Mobile World Congress, visit www.nuance.com/mwc2008/