Nanoradio WiFi Solution is Inside the World's First 3G UMA Mobile Phone


STOCKHOLM, Sweden, September 26 /PRNewswire/ --     Nanoradio today announced that its "Always On WiFi"(TM) solution has been
commercially launched inside the world's first 3G UMA phone. The same "Always
On WiFi"(TM) solution was also recently launched in a 2.5G UMA phone. The two
phones, P250 and P270, will both be released by Samsung in multiple countries
in Europe, opening up a new world of multimedia services to the UMA operator
customer base. The P270 is the first device on the market that combines UMA
and 3G network technology.

Fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) using dual mode cellular/Wi-Fi handsets
are a rapidly developing market on both sides of the Atlantic. Low power
consuming Wi-Fi solutions are a critical enabling technology for this type of
applications. The UMA phone requires the WiFi to be active all time in order
to receive an incoming or making an outgoing UMA call.

The Nanoradio "Always On WiFi"(TM) solution - the NRX700/2 Wi-Fi chipset
offers fully tested 802.11b/g functionality, featuring ultra-low power
consumption enabling unparalleled UMA standby time and UMA talk time. The
Nanoradio WiFi solution is doubling the standby and talk time compared to
standard UMA phone offerings. This results in that the UMA phone customer can
adopt a behaviour of keeping the WiFi Always On, removing the need for a
"turn on and off the WiFi behaviour" in order to save battery time.

Tord Wingren, CEO and President of Nanoradio AB, commented, "We are very
proud to have launched our WiFi product with a Tier 1 phone manufacturer and
a Tier 1 operator, in an environment with extreme requirements on power
consumption, stability and output power. We are confident that this
experience, in combination with our best in class size and price will be very
competitive in other mobile phone applications using WiFi."

About Nanoradio AB

Nanoradio AB design semiconductors with wireless capability for the
cellular and handheld market where buying decisions relate to power
consumption, physical size, and total cost for customers. Nanoradio has
developed the most integrated circuits which bring outstanding WLAN
capabilities into mobile phones and consumer multimedia electronics.
Nanoradio's Wi-Fi chips target a range of applications, including mobile
phones, wireless network cameras for home surveillance, Portable Media
Players and gaming devices.

Another big area for Nanoradio is the growing fixed-mobile convergence
market with dual-mode phones.

The company was founded in March 2004 and it is a "fabless" company which
means that all manufacturing is outsourced. Nanoradio has a team of 56 people
with extensive experience from the cellular and wireless industry as well as
semiconductor industry and start-ups. The head-quarter is in Kista, Sweden
and with sales offices in Korea, Japan and USA.

Information on the company may be found on the World Wide Web at
http://www.nanoradio.com.

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