ESPOO, Finland--()--Rightware Oy, a leader in embedded 3D user interface (UI) technologies, announced today that Shenzhen KONKA Telecommunications Technology Co., Ltd, a leading Chinese mobile phone manufacturer, will ship its smartphone with 3D homescreen powered by Kanzi® UI Solution. KONKA’s device is based on Mediatek’s chip platform and is incorporated with a HVGA & WVGA display and a Kanzi powered 3D homescreen.
The 3D homescreen for KONKA incorporates 3D launcher, 3D live wallpaper and 3D lock-screen, thus combining easy usability with feature-rich 3D content offering a great user experience to consumers. The 3D homescreen, with associated 3D content, was designed and implemented at Rightware’s local design center in Shanghai, China reflecting the latest design and usability.
“In order to capture global market share with our forth-coming smartphone models, KONKA is investing to deliver the best-in-class user interfaces. Rightware’s Kanzi UI based homescreen with all 3D elements included in our latest device, puts us a step ahead the competition and satisfies our customers by bringing them a whole new level of user experience,” said Mr. Alvin Fan, Vice President of KONKA Telecommunication.
Kanzi UI Solution enables the implementation of high-end user interfaces even for mid-range Android mobile devices, tablets and other embedded devices. With years of experience in the field of graphics performance testing, Rightware has been able to optimize Kanzi UI Solution to make it capable of executing comprehensive UI designs with superior performance.
“The importance of eye-catching 3D user interfaces for differentiation is a well-known fact but more interesting is to observe – for example in KONKA devices – how well 3D user interfaces can incorporate new functionality and improve the usability in devices. We’re truly excited to help our customer KONKA to expand into new markets and capture market share globally with their innovative devices featuring 3D user interfaces and homescreens powered by our patent-pending Kanzi UI Solution,” said Mr. Tero Sarkkinen, CEO of Rightware.
As well as providing the industry’s most cutting-edge user interface technologies, Rightware also provides its customers with a full range of complementing services including: UI design, implementation and unique performance benchmarking of various chipsets. With the help of Rightware Kanzi UI Solution, customers get the most modern, turnkey solution in the industry that dramatically speeds up time to market without compromising quality.
For more information about Kanzi® UI Solution, please visit: www.rightware.com/kanzi
The first glance of the KONKA 3D Homescreen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7zMnEkjhT8
About KONKA
Shenzhen KONKA Telecommunications Technology Co., Ltd., founded in 1999, was the original mobile phone manufacturer in China and today is one of the biggest Chinese companies for the GSM and CDMA cell phones manufacturing. As a professional cell phone manufacturer with an excellent reputation in the mobile phone industry, KONKA owns 15 production lines handling GSM, CDMA and 3G cell phones with a full set of advanced facilities, covering SMT, plastic injection, tooling, testing and assembly. It has a manufacturing capacity of 15 million sets annually and develops oversea markets like Asia, Latin America, Australia, Hong Kong, Russia, Middle East, Africa etc. KONKA achieved 12M sets sold in 2010, 13M sold in 2011 and is expecting 15M to be sold in 2012. More information: www.konka-mobile.com
About Rightware
Rightware® is the market leader in 3D User Interface technologies, serving mobile, automotive and other embedded industries with its Kanzi® UI Solution for rapid 3D user interface design and deployment. Rightware has introduced the world’s first commercially available stereoscopic 3D (S3D) UI solution for embedded devices. Rightware also develops industry leading system performance analysis tools and its renowned product portfolio includes the Basemark® product family for various benchmarking purposes, including industry standard benchmarks for OpenGL ES, OpenCL, OpenVG, Android, Linux, and Windows Mobile performance measurement. Rightware is headquartered in Espoo, Finland and has offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, München and Palo Alto. More information: www.rightware.com.
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