Visto Powers Push Email on Palm Treo 750v for Vodafone
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Exciting, New Business-Ready Handset to Deliver Visto's Easy-to-Use Mobile Email From Launch
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 13 / -- Visto, the leading global provider of secure push email to the enterprise market, today announced that it is supporting Vodafone's push email services on the new Palm® Treo(TM) 750v smartphone straight from launch.(1)
Visto's patented Visto Mobile platform will deliver a secure and easy-to- use push email experience to business users on the Treo 750v -- the latest feature-packed, "business-ready" smartphone from Palm, Inc. The Treo 750v brings the Palm experience on Microsoft®'s Windows Mobile® 5.0 to Europe for the first time.
"The immediate availability of Vodafone push email services on the Treo 750v demonstrates Visto's ongoing commitment to providing email on all leading business-ready handsets as they come to market," said Jean Tripier, Visto's executive vice-president and chief operating officer. "The Treo 750v is a stylish, high-end device and we're delighted to be supporting it. Together with data security and ease-of-use, device choice is one of three core dimensions to driving the mass adoption of mobile email."
"The Palm Treo 750v is an exciting and feature-packed 3G/UMTS smartphone," said Mark Eastwood, product manager for the Palm Treo 750v. "We're confident that, working with our partners to support the very best mobile email platforms from launch, the Treo 750v will help drive email for the masses in the business market."
The Visto Mobile platform supports easy-to-use mobile email on more than 100 business-ready devices on all popular mobile operating systems, including Windows Mobile, Symbian and Java. It also supports all leading email systems, including Microsoft Exchange 5.5, 2000 and 2003, Lotus Domino R5.0, R6.0 and R6.5 and internet-based POP3 and IMAP4 services. This unique flexibility, and inherent security that requires no changes to firewalls, means that operators using Visto Mobile can offer an easy-to-use mobile email service to multiple market segments -- from large corporations to SMEs and professional consumers.
The Palm Treo 750v with Visto-powered push email service is available first to Vodafone customers in the following countries: France, Ireland, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, and the UK.
About Visto Mobile with ConstantSync(TM)
Visto Mobile is Visto's carrier-grade platform for wireless access to corporate and personal e-mail, calendar, contacts and other corporate data. Visto Mobile utilizes ConstantSync, a real-time push technology that ensures valuable corporate data is always up to date and never stored outside the firewall. The complete platform comprises server, desktop, and device software, providing a complete mobile email/PIM solution for wireless operators to rapidly deploy as their uniquely branded solution for their subscribers. The platform provides push e-mail delivery to any mobile device over 2.5G and 3G networks, FIPS 140-compliant, end-to-end AES encryption and an optimized network architecture that requires only 20 percent of the bandwidth of SyncML or IMAP-based solutions. Visto's solutions work on the broadest set of wireless devices that include Treo600/650 with PalmOS, Microsoft Smart Phone devices, Microsoft PPC integrated communications devices, Sony-Ericsson P900/P910 with Symbian UIQ, Symbian S60, S80 devices from Nokia and Java Enabled devices.
About Visto
Visto delivers the leading global platform for mobile operators to provide wireless push email to the broadest set of mobile devices. Visto's open solution enables email for the mass market, targeting large enterprises, small businesses and mobile professionals. The company's patented Visto Mobile(TM) platform with ConstantSync(TM) technology works in real time with POP3, IMAP, Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino email solutions for personal to enterprise use, providing maximum control and flexibility for the operator and choice for the customer. Visto's customized, brandable solutions are available through mobile operators worldwide including Cingular, Elisa, KPN, Lenovo Group Ltd, Rogers Wireless, SmarTone, SFR, Sprint-Nextel, TELUS, Turkcell and the Vodafone Group.
Established in 1996 and headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, with offices in Seattle, London, Rome, Paris, Toronto, Tokyo, Beijing and Tianjin, China, Visto is backed by Oak Investment Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DFJ ePlanet Ventures, VantagePoint Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Rustic Canyon Ventures, Allegis Capital and Blueprint Ventures. For more information, visit www.visto.com or email sales@visto.com.
(1) Within wireless service coverage area only. Availability and coverage depends upon carrier and the geographic scope of international roaming agreements. Email, messaging and web access requires data services from a mobile service provider at an additional cost.
CONTACT:
Suzanne Panoplos
Visto (NA)
+1 650-486-6026, or
mobile: +1 415-640-7475
spanoplos@visto.com
Ricca Silverio, or Jessica Levy,
Bock Communications, Inc.
+1 714-540-1030
visto@bockpr.com;
Steve Maynard
Visto Europe
+44 (0)7979 708637
smaynard@visto.com;
Richard Fogg, or Alex Sowden
CompanyCare
+44 (0)118 939 5900
visto@companycare.com
Web site: www.visto.com/
