| Bitstream Offers Small, Fast Font Rendering Subsystem for Symbian OS Mobile Phones Bitstream Joins Symbian Platinum Program CAMBRIDGE, MA — August 8, 2005 — Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for data-enabled mobile phones, also known as smartphones, based on Symbian OS™. As a Platinum Partner, Bitstream is extending font rendering technology and high-quality international fonts in industry standard and compact formats to Symbian OS, which powers today’s most popular smartphones. Symbian OS is licensed by the world’s leading mobile phone manufacturers. As of Q1 2005, cumulative shipments of Symbian OS phones exceeded 32 million and year-on-year phone shipments grew more than 180 percent compared to the same quarter last year. ”This partnership reflects our commitment to the font technology market and our intent to build upon our mobile strategy. We are pleased to be working with Symbian, who supports open standards and drives innovation," said Anna Chagnon, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bitstream Inc. ”Scalable font rendering and international fonts add significant value to data-enabled mobile phones. Bitmaps are no longer acceptable, particularly since Bitstream’s font rendering subsystem resides in a small footprint, provides font compression, and produces high-quality text. Bitstream technology provides a worldwide font solution that developers can implement quickly and upgrade at any time.” As a Symbian Platinum Partner, Bitstream ensures the close integration of innovative font technology with smartphones based on Symbian OS. “We are delighted to have Bitstream join the Symbian Platinum Program and bring its award-winning font technology and global font solutions to the Symbian OS ecosystem,” said Jerry Panagrossi, Vice President U.S. Operations, Symbian. “Bitstream’s Font Fusion technology enables developers to render high-quality characters in any format and resolution, thereby solving the issues with providing scalable text display on smartphones.” About The Symbian Platinum ProgramThe Symbian Platinum Program includes companies that have a technology or strategic position that is key to the success of mobile computing technology surrounding Symbian OS. As part of the program, Platinum Partners benefit from a range of commercial services, including technical support and joint marketing opportunities as well as privileged access to Symbian OS source code and a dedicated Partner Support team. For more information please see http://www.symbian.com/partners/platinum.html. About Symbian Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the global open industry standard operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones. Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world’s leading handset manufacturers. The following Symbian OS licensees have Symbian OS-based mobile phones in production and/or in development: Arima, BenQ, Fujitsu LG, Lenovo, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Sendo, Sharp, Siemens, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. In the first quarter of 2005, more than 6.75m Symbian OS-based mobile phones were sold worldwide, taking the installed base of Symbian OS phones to more than 32 million. Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in the United States, Europe, Israel, Australia and Asia (Bangalore, Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo). For further information about Symbian: http://www.symbian.com. Bitstream Bitstream and Font Fusion are registered trademarks and the Bitstream logo is a trademark of Bitstream Inc. Symbian OS is a trademark of Symbian Software Ltd. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Contact Anna Chagnon Rebecca Smith |
