engines, announced today that E-TEN Information Systems Co., Ltd., a renowned designer and manufacturer of smart handheld devices, has chosen SPIRIT’s voice solution to ensure superior voice quality on its mobile devices.

SPIRIT’s cutting-edge voice enhancement solution with full-duplex echo-free voice will be incorporated into various models of 3G/3.5G devices and PDA-phones, based on Windows Mobile 6.0.

Turned to handheld devices in 1997, E-TEN has gained great experience in building cutting-edge smart handheld devices and released a number of hugely successful smartphones that featured combinations of GPRS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and 3.5G GSM functionality.

With its new brand name Glofiish for smart handheld devices and accessories, launched in 2006, E-TEN burst into the consumer sector and was awarded the Best Choice of Computex Award 2008 for its innovative new Glofiish DX900. As it was announced March 3, Acer Inc., the world's third-largest branded PC vendor is going to acquire E-TEN Information Systems Co. towards the end of Q3 2008.

“The Asia Pacific market, where SPIRIT Voice and Video Engines are well-established, is the largest world factory for communications equipment: 9 out of every 10 devices are produced in this region. Additionally, all the major Taiwanese OEMs are already SPIRIT customers and benefit from SPIRIT's high-quality voice and video software engines,” stated Alex Kravchenko, VP Sales at SPIRIT. ” We are very glad that E-TEN finally turned to SPIRIT to gain outstanding voice quality and resource efficiency. They join our established and growing list of brand name customers in mobile device manufacturers including Arima, Compal, HTC, Quanta and others.”

“We consider SPIRIT a world leading and widely recognized provider of mobile voice and video processing solutions, with a deep and strong deployment history,” said Hawk Wu, PM Director at E-TEN. “With SPIRIT’s high quality voice and instant AEC adaptation of voice enhancement to new handset designs, coupled with resource availability and fast time-to-market integration, we will definitely meet the increasing customer expectation for communications in our current and future mobile products.”

About E-TEN

Building upon the Windows® Mobile platform, E-TEN released a number of hugely successful Pocket PC phones that featured combinations of GRPS, Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth®, GPS, GSM & HSDPA functionality each enhanced by exclusive in-house developed software applications. In 2006, E-TEN launched a new brand name, Glofiish, for its Pocket PC Phones and accessories.

About SPIRIT DSP

SPIRIT DSP has been in the international software licensing business since 1992. A bootstrap company, SPIRIT has been profitable for 15 years. For the last 10 years, SPIRIT's focus has been on voice, audio and video communication software products. SPIRIT counts among its customers Adobe, Agere, ARM, Blizzard, BT, Cisco, Compal, Ericsson, HP, HTC, Huawei, Korea Telecom, Kyocera, LG, Microsoft, NEC, Nortel Networks, Oracle, Polycom, Quanta, Radvision, Reigncom, Samsung, Siemens, DSP Group, Texas Instruments, Tensilica, Toshiba, ZTE, and 200+ other communication OEMs and software vendors. 

Information Source:    Business Wire