For those who follow coded developments, you know the GIPS codec does a superior job of providing voice quality. I sense this announcement of the GIPS solution on SonyEricsson smartphones for SIP-based VoIP clients signals some more advances ahead in the quality of VoIP service on multi-mode handsets.

Global IP Solutions Announces Availability Of VoiceEngine On Sony Ericsson Smartphones
GIPS VoiceEngine Licensed Through OptiMobile

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 2, 2007 -Global IP Solutions (GIPS), the leading provider of embedded media processing solutions, announced today that it will enable VoIP on Sony Ericsson smartphones in the future through a SIP-based VoIP client. Earlier this year GIPS announced VoiceEngine MobileT solution was available for the Symbian operating system.

"GIPS technology enables smartphones with high-quality voice in the VoIP arena", said Gary Hermansen, President and CEO, Global IP Solutions. "GIPS offer the best real-time media capabilities available in today's market and we are proud to work with Sony Ericsson," he added.

OptiMobile is a leader within the field of seamless convergence between wireless Internet telephony and cellular telephony. The GIPS VoiceEngine will be licensed to GIPS' customer OptiMobile and used in its SIP-based VoIP client that is licensed by Sony Ericsson to support wireless Internet telephony (VoIP).

"OptiMobile and GIPS now offer mobile phone manufacturers the possibility to add VoIP-rich features to their customers," said Lars Edman, CEO of OptiMobile. "We are proud to deliver client application resources to Sony Ericsson mobile phones for Internet telephony and to extend the scope of our already existing relation with GIPS by licensing GIPS VoiceEngine for Symbian," he adds.

About Global IP Solutions
Global IP Solutions (GIPS) offers multimedia technologies for real-time communications over packet networks. GIPS enables companies to deliver IP applications that offer the highest quality user experience, as well as revenue-enhancing opportunities across a multitude of devices and services. Global IP Solutions provides best-in-class voice and video quality and fidelity in end-to-end IP communications with robustness against packet loss. GIPS' world-renowned media processing and IP telephony experts deliver these solutions to service providers, enterprises, applications developers, network equipment, gateway and chip manufacturers. Companies using Global IP Solutions products include Nortel, Skype, WebEx, Yahoo!, AOL, EarthLink, BlueCross/BlueShield and other key players in the VoIP market. Global IP Solutions is a member of the Intel® PCA Developer Network, the Motorola Design Alliance, Symbian Platinum Partner Program and Texas Instruments' third party developer network. Global IP Solutions has headquarters in San Francisco and offices in Santa Barbara, Stockholm, Hong Kong and Boston. More information is available at www.gipscorp.com

About OptiMobile
OptiMobile offers operators and providers of enterprise communication products a completely unified voice solution - WBX. End-users are able to use WLAN equipped mobile phones for calls over the Internet via WLAN whenever a WLAN Internet access point is within reach. Calls are automatically and seamlessly transferred between Internet and cellular networks.

OptiMobile is a leader within the field of seamless convergence between wireless Internet telephony (VoIP) and cellular telephony. Supported by OptiMobile's WBX solution operators and providers of enterprise communication solutions are able to offer end-users completely unified services, independent of the networks and radio access technologies being used from time to time. End-users benefit from lower cost of calls, reduced complexity due to unified call handling, higher availability and increased productivity. In general, calls made using VoIP have better sound quality than cellular calls. OptiMobile is licensing voice processing software for VoIP from Global IP Solutions. More information is available at www.optimobile.se.