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Wherify Wireless Announces Completion of SiRFstarIII GPS Chip Integration
June 27, 2006 |
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Company: Wherify Wireless
REDWOOD SHORES,CA--Wherify Wireless, Inc. (OTCBB:WFYW), a leading developer of patented wireless location solutions and services for family safety and communications, today announced it has completed the integration of SiRF Technologies Holdings, Inc.'s (Nasdaq:SIRF) next generation SiRFstarIII GPS chip set solution into the Wherifone(TM) GPS locator phone. This will provide improved GPS performance and features. The improved Wherifone is being evaluated by select customers for pre-launch field trials and acceptance testing, and is expected to be commercially available by Fall 2006. "We are very excited to have completed this important milestone and to demonstrate the improved Wherifone for our customers," said Timothy Neher, CEO and Founder of Wherify Wireless. "We believe that the combination of our proprietary Aided-GPS solution with the SiRFstarIII, arguably the best GPS chipset available today, will enable the Wherifone to significantly outperform other wireless GPS and cell tower triangulation-based products currently in the marketplace." The SiRFstarIII architecture, with the equivalent of more than 200,000 correlators, enables fast and deep GPS signal search capabilities, resulting in significant improvement over today's architectures that contain a few hundred to a few thousand correlators. "We're pleased to support exciting new products like the Wherifone with our SiRFstarIII solution to promote the public adoption and acceptance of next generation LBS services," said Kanwar Chadha, founder and vice president of marketing for SiRF. "We believe the high-performance SiRFstarIII architecture will help Wherify meet consumer expectations of its unique family communications and safety service." The Wherifone is the world's first GSM/GPS locator cell phone designed for children and seniors. The two-way cell phone has built-in Aided-GPS location and "managed dial" features that give on-the-go parents the peace of mind of being able to quickly locate and communicate with their young children and elderly relatives, while also controlling who they can call and how much it will cost. Wherify's Aided-GPS performance will vary, but often provides location results in places where conventional GPS solutions may have performance issues, such as in many types of wood frame buildings and vehicles, and under dense foliage. The Wherifone's patented Aided-GPS location solution is supported by the Wherify Global Location Service Center, which maintains information on all the GPS satellites in space through a series of GPS Reference Receivers, and applies location information into Wherify's mapping and location management system to let users see a device's position displayed on a map or aerial photograph.
About Wherify Wireless, Inc.
Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements Wherify, Wherify Wireless and FACES are registered trademarks of Wherify Wireless, Inc. Wherifone is a trademark of Wherify Wireless, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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