Agere Systems Unveils Industry’s First Entry-Level Cell Phone Platform To Deliver Affordable, Cd-Quality Music

Agere Systems Unveils Industry's First Entry-Level Cell Phone Platform To Deliver Affordable, Cd-Quality Music

Agere Systems has introduced the TrueNTRY X125, the industry’s first platform for delivering much more affordable entry-level cell phones that feature compact disc-quality music.

Agere Platform, Coupled With Storage Technology, Give Cell Phone Users Quick Access to Several Hundred Songs at High-Quality Sound Levels

The platform delivers the entry-level segment’s fastest processing speed — three times faster than most typical cell phones in use today; the most integration; and a bill of materials product cost as low as $30. At such low cost points, the cell phone market has the potential to accelerate its growth rate substantially, particularly in developing nations such as India and China.

This higher speed benefit of the X125 platform makes downloading CD-quality music in an entry-level handset faster and easier. In addition, Agere’s audio software and hardware electronics circuitry and processing technologies play integral roles in delivering sound quality comparable with industry-leading music players. This allows converged music cell phones with higher music quality than today’s typical entry-level cell phones.

Housed together with storage technology inside an entry-level cell phone, Agere’s platform gives entry-level cell phone users unprecedented access to several hundred songs, which can be played at high-quality sound.

These entry-level platforms are performance and cost optimized for basic and voice-centric cell phone solutions’the largest and most rapidly growing segment of the cell phone market.

The second chip set in Agere’s portfolio of Vision architectural platforms, the X125 hits the market at a time when music player capability is becoming a widely craved feature in the cell phone market. By the year 2007, thirty percent of worldwide mobile handset shipments are projected to handle full-track music playback.

“CD-quality music is rapidly becoming a ’must have’ application for voice-centric and basic cell phones,”said Denis Regimbal, executive vice president of Agere’s Mobility Division. “The challenge has been figuring out how to achieve high-quality music and other higher-end, multimedia features on cell phones while making them much more affordable. The X125 overcomes this hurdle and unleashes breakthrough musical quality on entry-level phones. “