Red Bend Signs FOTA Deal With China's Lenovo Mobile
Over-the-air software developer, Red Bend Software has signed a licensing agreement with China's Lenovo Mobile to integrate its vCurrent Mobile software for firmware over-the-air (FOTA) updating and vDirect Mobile software for device management in Lenovo Mobile’s i399 phone, a GSM phone which is sold by China Mobile. Lenovo Mobile is the top domestic brand handset manufacturer in China.
“Red Bend’s FOTA and DM clients in the Lenovo Mobile i399 will enable Lenovo to meet its operator requirements for standards-based device management in order to improve customer service and the mobile user experience,” said Danny Wang, Country Manager of Greater China for Red Bend Software.
Red Bend’s vCurrent Mobile enables operators and manufacturers to deliver firmware updates over-the-air to mobile phones in consumers’ hands. Its Failsafe feature ensures a successful firmware update, even if the phone loses power during the update process. vDirect Mobile is a device management client that provides provisioning, configuration, device information retrieval and security. It is an independent DM client that breaks the dependency of closed DM systems. Red Bend’s vCurrent Mobile and vDirect Mobile support Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Device Management (DM) standards and are interoperable with OMA DM-compliant servers.
In a separate news release, Red Bend also announced a licensing agreement with Nollec, a Chinese OEM. In February, Red Bend announced a deal with ZTE to license its software for ZTE’s mobile PC modems and home gateway modems for WiMAX networks.
Posted to the site on 3rd September 2008
