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Sophia Cradle Releases Ringtone Compression and Expansion Library for Java

Compression Rate 66% on Average and 85% at the Maximum

Abstract

KYOTO — September 15, 2004 — Sophia Cradle Incorporated (Headquarter: Kyoto; CEO: Kazunori Sugiyama), an innovative developer of mobile phone software, today announced the release a data compression and expansion library SophiaSCALE. It is a library that compresses ringtones and other mobile phone data at a rate of 66% on average and 85% at the maximum. Special software needs to be downloaded on a handset but it will not be a burden for end-users because the software is as light as 1.5 kilobytes.

Full Story

Sophia Cradle today announced to release a data compression and expansion library SophiaSCALE which supports all mobile phone Java.

Recently, the size of a ringtone has increased from 10 kilobytes to 20 and 40 kilobytes, so that a full song is offered as a mobile phone ringtone. Such big size has become a burden on users because they would have to pay higher communication expenses.

SophiaSCALE enables compression rates of 66% on average and 85% at the maximum, by grouping the sequence of the repeating patterns of the same melody and defining them into a shorter one. The longer the ringtone the bigger the number of repeating sequences in a ringtone, therefore, the higher the compression rate. Special software needs to be downloaded on a handset but it will not be a big deal for end-users because the software is as light as 1.5 kilobytes.

Pricing and Availability
The price of SophiaSCALE is 300,000 JPY per license. Sophia Cradle estimates to sell 200 licenses in a year. Sophia Cradle provides special offer until the end of September, for 200,000 JPY per license.

Free evaluation version of SophiaSCALE is available at the Sophia Cradle's web site below.

Applying for Free Evaluation Version of SophiaSCALE(Java) Version 1.0
/products/scale/index.html

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Examples of Compression Rate

Size of a Ringtone Number of Ringtones Average Compression Rate
0 -10 KB 203 56.5 %
10 -15 KB 180 57.9 %
More than 15 KB 224 66.2 %

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Term

SophiaSCALE

SophiaSCALE is an acronym for SophiaCradle Small Compressing Algorithm Library for Embedded application.

About Sophia Cradle

Sophia Cradle Incorporated is a mobile phone software developer which currently specializes in BREW C++, GUI middleware and mobile Java. Founded in 2002, Sophia Cradle aims to render services to the improvement of everyone's quality of life by creating innovative mobile Internet technology. For more information about Sophia Cradle, please visit www.s-cradle.com/english/.