E-TEN Licenses SPIRIT Voice Processing Solution for Mobile Devices

To Support Quality Voice on Glofiish Brand
BANGKOK, Thailand--(Business Wire)--
SPIRIT DSP, the world's leading provider of voice and video
software engines, announced today that E-TEN Information Systems Co.,
Ltd., the world-renowned designer and manufacturer of smart handheld
devices, has chosen SPIRIT's voice solution to ensure superior voice
quality on its mobile devices.

SPIRIT's cutting-edge voice enhancement solution with full-duplex
echo-free voice will be incorporated into various models of 3G/3.5G
devices and PDA-phones, based on Windows Mobile 6.0.

Turned to handheld devices in 1997, E-TEN has gained great
experience in building cutting-edge smart handheld devices and
released a number of hugely successful smartphones that featured
combinations of GPRS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and 3.5G GSM
functionality.

With its new brand name Glofiish for smart handheld devices and
accessories, launched in 2006, E-TEN burst into the consumer sector
and was awarded the Best Choice of Computex Award 2008 for its
innovative new Glofiish DX900. As it was announced March 3, Acer Inc.,
the world's third-largest branded PC vendor is going to acquire E-TEN
Information Systems Co. towards the end of Q3 2008.

With every licensing contract SPIRIT progressively expands its
leading position of voice solutions for the fast-evolving smart
handheld devices market. Tier1 OEM manufacturers that already
implemented SPIRIT voice and video processing solutions cover up to 60
per cent of today's worldwide smart phone shipment. This market is
estimated to grow by more than 30 percent by 2011, according to
Gianfranco Lanci, President of Acer Inc.

"The Asia Pacific market, where SPIRIT Voice and Video Engines are
well-established, is the largest world factory for communications
equipment: 9 out of every 10 devices are produced in this region.
Additionally, all the major Taiwanese OEMs are already SPIRIT
customers and benefit from SPIRIT's high-quality voice and video
software engines," stated Alex Kravchenko, VP Sales at SPIRIT. " We
are very glad that E-TEN finally turned to SPIRIT to gain outstanding
voice quality and resource efficiency. They join our established and
growing list of brand name customers in mobile device manufacturers
including Arima, Compal, HTC, Quanta and others."

"We consider SPIRIT a world leading and widely recognized provider
of mobile voice and video processing solutions, with a deep and strong
deployment history," said Hawk Wu, PM Director at E-TEN. "With
SPIRIT's high quality voice and instant AEC adaptation of voice
enhancement to new handset designs, coupled with resource availability
and fast time-to-market integration, we will definitely meet the
increasing customer expectation for communications in our current and
future mobile products."

About E-TEN

E-TEN (www.etencorp.com) has been the #1 vendor of embedded
devices in Taiwan since the mid 1990's. The E-TEN real time stock
trading IA launched in 1997, an outstanding product that achieved an
85% market penetration, was one of the key catalysts in the company's
remarkable growth. With a proven staff of experienced hardware,
software and communications experts, E-TEN found itself perfectly
positioned to take advantage of the increasing demand for handheld
convergence devices that occurred in the late 90s. Building upon the
Windows(R) Mobile platform, E-TEN released a number of hugely
successful Pocket PC phones that featured combinations of GRPS,
Wi-Fi(R), Bluetooth(R), GPS, GSM & HSDPAT functionality each enhanced
by exclusive in-house developed software applications. In 2006, in
recognition of the fact that its consumer orientated devices were
proving just as successful as the company's IT centric product lines,
E-TEN showed its commitment to the consumer sector by adopting the new
brand name, Glowfiish, for its Pocket PC Phones and accessories. E-TEN
is constantly expanding its professionalism and expertise as it
continues to develop and enhance its PDA product lines and grow its
business in the global marketplace.

About SPIRIT DSP

SPIRIT DSP (www.spiritDSP.com) employs 140 professionals, and has
been in the international software licensing business since 1992. A
bootstrap company, SPIRIT has been profitable for 15 years. For the
last 10 years, SPIRIT's focus has been on voice, audio and video
communication software products. SPIRIT counts among its customers
Adobe, Agere, ARM, Blizzard, BT, Cisco, Compal, Ericsson, HP, HTC,
Huawei, Korea Telecom, Kyocera, LG, Microsoft, NEC, Nortel Networks,
Oracle, Polycom, Quanta, Radvision, Reigncom, Samsung, Siemens, DSP
Group, Texas Instruments, Tensilica, Toshiba, ZTE, and 200+ other
communication OEMs and software vendors. SPIRIT communication software
is used in over 80 countries and powers more than 100 million voice
channels. Today SPIRIT mobile OEM customers jointly exceed 60 percent
of the worldwide smart-phone shipments.

SPIRIT DSP:
Alexey Dianov, International PR Director
+7 495 661 2178
dianov@spiritdsp.com
or
E-TEN:
Sylvia Pan,
Product Marketing Department
Communication Product Business Unit
Tel: +886-2-7721-0000 #7702
sylvia.pan@etencorp.com

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