QUICKOFFICE® SELECTED BY ASIA'S GROUP SENSE PDS FOR INCLUSION ON ITS PALM-POWERED SMARTPHONES
Agreement preloads Quickoffice and its Microsoft® Office capabilities on all GSPDA M28, M68 and M98 Palm-powered smartphones
Dallas, Texas and Hong Kong - September 20, 2005 - Group Sense PDA Limited ("GSPDA"), one of the largest sellers of handheld computers in Asia and Quickoffice, Inc., a world leader in providing mobile office document software for smartphones, today announced a licensing agreement that will include Quickoffice - the award-winning Palm office software suite - on GSPDA's latest Palm OS handsets, providing users with easy and fast access to their existing Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files.
GSPDA, the PDA subsidiary of Group Sense (International) Limited (GSL, HKEx: 0601), will include the award-winning Quickoffice Premier™ software on its Palm Powered™ M28, Xplore M68 and M98 smartphones.
The Quickoffice software capability will offer business professionals worldwide the ability to open, view, edit and even create documents, such as contracts, agreements, business plans, sales presentations, or financial reports directly from their GSPDA handset.
"e;GSPDA provides a rich user experience in an excellent Palm OS smartphone and including Quickoffice will create a great value for GSPDA customers worldwide,"e; said Gregg Fiddes, Quickoffice VP Sales & Partnerships.
"e;Including Quickoffice, with its best-in-class mobile office software capabilities, on GSPDA Palm-powered smartphones will make them more competitive in the global marketplace,"e; said Francis Li, Executive Director of GSPDA.
The multiple award-winning Quickoffice Premier™ is the company's flagship handheld software product. It is the leading portable computing solution for mobile device users supporting native Microsoft® Office formatted files saved on expansion storage cards, received as e-mail attachments via infrared beaming, Bluetooth™, Wi-Fi or expansion cards.
About Quickoffice
Quickoffice is a world leader in providing mobile office document software for smartphones, allowing users to open, view and edit Microsoft Office files with complete document data integrity. The company's flagship product, Quickoffice Premier, continues to receive awards and recognition from industry analysts, the media and users alike. Quickoffice ships through major carriers such as Vodafone®, Orange®, China Mobile®, Cingular® and many more. Fully localized in 36 languages, and shipping worldwide as a built-in solution on a multitude of smartphones, Quickoffice has been a top-selling mobile office application since its market introduction. Privately held, Quickoffice is based in Dallas, Texas.
About Group Sense PDA Limited
Group Sense PDA Limited (GSPDA), the flagship of its parent company Group Sense (International) Limited for PDA business, was established in 2000 in Hong Kong. Besides conventional PDA, GSPDA also produces converged products - PDA-phones and smartphones. In September 2001, GSPDA rolled out the world's first Chinese-based PDA-phone model e938 that features open OS architecture and full-range communication functions including voice, fax, e-mails, WAP and SMS. For non-phone type of products, embedded-BluetoothTM is added to provide short-range connectivity with other Bluetooth-enabled devices. GSPDA is now selling products to China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Middle East, Europe and USA.
More information at: www.gspda.com


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