&Quot;The smart phone market is currently in a highly transitional period,” Kari Happonen, Ixonos president and CEO, said in a statement. “New chipsets, open operating systems and user-friendlier user interfaces, as well as the [production] of software all change the competitive situation between device manufacturers and boosts the demand for new R&D services." "We have significant experience in smar tphone functionality, in the development of mobile Internet services, and in uniting the two into a smooth user experience,” Happonen said in a statement. “The new unit will be in a key position as we create devices that inspire consumers with both practical use and pleasure as they take advantage of the ever-increasing supply of services on the wireless Internet." Ixonos’ customers include mobile and smart phone manufacturers, network vendors and telecom carriers as well as Finnish finance, industry and service sector companies and public administration organizations. The company has its offices in Helsinki and six other cities in Finland, as well as in China, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, the U.K., Slovakia and the U.S. encompasses a wide range of mobile services that converge elements of fixed communications infrastructure to complement the core mobile service. In most cases fixed mobile convergence (FMC) services allow the user or the network to take advantage of higher speed, cheaper local unlicensed access networks in local environments for lower value, high volume transactions. BlackBerry® Mobile Voice System (BlackBerry MVS) converges office desk phones and BlackBerry® smartphones, allowing users to access standard enterprise

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