WorldMate, the leading mobile travel application bundled with New Palm Tungsten W Handheld
REHOVOT, Israel, Milpitas, CA Dec. 4th, 2002 - MobiMate Ltd. announced today that its WorldMate will be bundled with the new PalmTM TungstenTM W handheld from Palm, Inc. This is the first Palm handheld to ship with WorldMate, a full-featured travel utility that includes world clocks, world weather, currency conversion and more.
"WorldMate offers key functionality for mobile professionals, allowing users with carrier activation to get weather and currency conversion data in real time, as well as supporting the business traveler with other conversion and time-zone management tools when traveling outside of carrier service areas," says Rick Hartwig, Palm Inc.'s product manager for Wireless. Nadav Gur, MobiMate's CEO, declares, " WorldMate shipments are growing exponentially, and MobiMate will continue to develop follow-on products that will provide even more value to international business people."
WorldMate is a leading handheld travel application for PDAs with hundreds of thousands of downloads to date. Its key features include world clocks with automatic DST calculation, a world map, 5-day worldwide weather forecasts from The Weather Channel updated on-line, a currency converter with daily exchange rate updates, and an international weights and measurements converter. The product is available for the Palm OS® and Pocket PC® platforms. WorldMate's unique on-line capabilities make it a natural complement for wireless mobile devices.
The Palm Tungsten W handheld provides all-in-one connectivity for the busy, mobile professional, delivering what matters most for business customers -- messaging, communication and access to company data. It's the first Palm branded integrated wireless handheld with a built-in keyboard for easy data entry, and a crisp color screen. With carrier activation, the Palm Tungsten W handheld is a data-centric handheld, providing a sophisticated combination of wireless email, instant messaging, phone functionality, business applications and Palm's classic Personal Information Management (PIM) software.
About WorldMate®
WorldMate® is the world's leading mobile travel and itinerary management companion service, providing subscribed users with the ability to create, plan, manage and send travel-related trip itineraries in six (6) languages and on eight (8) platforms including Java, Blackberry, Palm OS, Microsoft Windows Mobile (Pocket PC), Symbian UIQ, Series60, Series80 Communicators and Desktop PC.
WorldMate® is the three time recipient of the Handango People's Choice Awards in the Travel and Business Enterprise categories, and has received countless wireless developer accolades and endorsements from Nokia, PalmOne, Sony Ericsson and Symbian, as well as awards from industry specific eZines such as PC Magazine, ZDNet, PocketPC Magazine, Geek.com and others.
For more information about WorldMate®, please visit
www.mobimate.com/worldmate
About MobiMate®
MobiMate® is a mobile application developer with numerous award winning travel and itinerary management product lines and hundreds of thousands of subscribed users worldwide. MobiMate's strategic partners include Nokia, Orange, The Weather Channel Interactive® Inc., Symbian, Handango, OAG, Sony Ericsson, Hewlett Packard and others, providing global distribution and international sales of the flagship WorldMate® product, which is available in Professional, Standard and Desktop Editions on multiple wireless platforms including Java, Blackberry, Palm OS, Microsoft Windows Mobile (Pocket PC), Symbian UIQ, Series60, Series80 Communicators and Desktop PC.
For more information about MobiMate, please visit
http://www.mobimate.com/company/index.shtml
MobiMate® and WorldMate® are registered trademarks of MobiMate, Ltd. The Weather Channel™ and weather.com are trademarks or registered trademarks of The Weather Channel Interactive ® Inc. All other trade names and trademarks are the property of their respective holders.