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Nextreaming powers most advanced CDMA 1x EV-DO handset
June 7, 2004

Nextreaming Corporation, a provider of mobile video software for operators and handset manufacturers announced that its Nexembedded Suite was selected to equip PG-K6000V of Curitel Communications, a major handset manufacturer in Korea, with advanced multimedia features unavailable on any previous CDMA 1x EV-DO handset.

The PG-K6000V provides advanced features such as a 1.3 megapixel CMOS camera and MPEG-4 streaming player working on KTF's EV-DO network in Korea. The PG-K6000V's clamshell form factor with swivel hinge simplifies creating pictures and movies. Nextreaming licensed its Nexembedded player, a MPEG-4 audio/video player supporting downloaded and streaming content playback, Nexembedded Camcorder, a MPEG-4 video encoder, Nexembedded Camera, a JPEG codec and sophisticated image management tools, and provided professional services, to integrate them into the handset.

"The release of the PG-K6000V marks an important milestone in our mobile multimedia evolution," said M.S. Song, President & CEO of Curitel Communications. "Working with Nextreaming, we were able to efficiently integrate a complete multimedia solution, enabling our handset to enter the market on time and with more advanced features than any other in the market. We plan to develop high-tech multimedia mobile phones continuously and aim to be one of the leading mobile phone companies in the world market."

Nextreaming's optimized software based camcorder creates personal movie clips of up to 3 hours without adversely affecting battery life. It also enables a camera supporting up to 1280x960 resolution, with better resolution than other handsets currently released in the EV-DO market.

"Nextreaming is honored to have been selected by Curitel to include our multimedia software in their advanced handset," said Dr. IL-TAEK LIM, President & CEO Nextreaming, "Adding multimedia software solutions within advanced handsets provides additional functionality with little incremental costs. Choosing Nextreaming provides partners such as Curitel with the most complete and optimized multimedia solution on the market today."

Nextreaming is demonstrating this handset and other products at CommunicAsia 2004 in Singapore between June 15-18.

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