Company Press Release:
Tegic Introduces XT9™ Mobile Interface on the New O2 Xda Zinc
XT9 software to drive mainstream consumer adoption of mobile content and services

New Delhi, (India) May 28, 2007: Tegic Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL, today announced that O2 - a leading manufacturer of converged mobile devices - has launched the new Xda Zinc with an XT9™ mobile interface in India. With this joint announcement O2 becomes the first Microsoft® Windows Mobile® device manufacturer to launch a product featuring the XT9™ application in India.

The Xda Zinc is O2’s new PDA-phone built for the communication enthusiast. Besides 3G connectivity, it offers also enhanced efficiency and ease of messaging with a slide-out Qwerty keyboard, 520MHz Intel® processor, built-in Wireless LAN, and unique applications like O2 Phone Plus and O2 Message Plus. The XT9 solution enhances the device’s usability and makes communications a breeze.

The XT9Ô application is a first of its kind, multi-modal user interface solution for feature-rich smart phones and advanced mobile devices. The XT9 mobile interface seamlessly integrates popular T9® software for the phone keypad, as well as hard and soft QWERTY keyboard, with handwriting recognition capabilities using a stylus. By making it simpler to type words and phrases, the XT9 interface makes it easier to enjoy popular content and wireless services such as mobile web browsing, search and messaging on the latest Xda Zinc.

"With the success of the availability of T9 text input our focus is to replicate and further our goal of making text input on PDA mobile phones more simple and fast,“ said Mridul Srivastava, Senior Country Manager (India), AOL Mobile. “The latest XT9 mobile interface is designed to enable users of the O2 Xda Zinc to easily toggle between messaging modes, as well as numbers, letters, symbols and languages, making it faster and easier to enter text, thereby enabling messaging in all the ways people message in India” he further added.

“India is a vital and exploding market for O2. Our efforts have always been to ensure we provide customers here with best-in-class mobile experience, and continually challenge and push the technology curve to bring more benefits to customers and the Indian mobile market to bloom,” said Mr. Myilravanan Nathar, O2’s Country Manager for India. “We are positive that the usability of XT9 mobile interface application, combined with the cutting-edge features of the Xda Zinc, will lead this new technology wave.”


About O2 Asia Pacific and Middle East:
O2 Asia Pacific and Middle East (“O2 AP & ME”) is a member of Telefónica O2 Europe, a leading provider of mobile communications services in Europe with more than 37 million active customers. Part of the Telefónica group, O2 AP & ME provides customers throughout Asia Pacific and Middle East with innovative, premium mobile data devices and services that enhance everyday business solutions and lifestyle needs. The company is headquartered in Singapore, with offices in Australia, Malaysia and Korea and a sister company in Hong Kong; apart from Singapore, Australia, Malaysia and Hong Kong, it also distributes in Indonesia, Thailand, India, United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of Bahrain, Kuwait, Taiwan, Pakistan, Philippines and Vietnam. For more information, visit SeeO2.com.

About T9® Text Input Software:
T9 Text Input, a leading alphabet-based and Chinese, Japanese and Korean character-based messaging software, is the flagship product of Tegic, and is available in more than 60 languages. By incorporating T9 software into mobile communications products, companies are solving the fundamental problem of how to quickly and easily send mobile messages and browse the Web. More than 800 mobile phone models available throughout the world today include T9 software and the technology has been licensed to major consumer electronics and communications equipment manufacturers worldwide. For more on T9 Text Input, visit http://www.t9.com.

About Tegic Communications Inc., a Unit of AOL’s Wireless Division:
Tegic is a leading provider of enabling software for mobile data services, including market-leading T9 software. A wholly owned subsidiary of AOL LLC, Tegic was founded in 1995 to develop and market communication technologies for the telecommunications and computing industries. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington (U.S.A.) and has offices in London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, Beijing, New Delhi, Singapore and São Paulo. Tegic is on the Web at http://www.tegic.com.