2 Jan 2008
Chinese handset vendor, Amoi Electronics has launched the country's first models, the A616 and A636 which supports the copyright protection system used by local music retailer, Kuro. Through the cooperation announced today, semiconductor producer, Spreadtrum has embedded Kuro's services into its chipset platform, so that the mobile phones equipped with Spreadtrum's chips can enable the functions of a multimedia player and online music download services.
Dr. Ping Wu, President and CEO of Spreadtrum, said, "Embedding Kuro's music copyright protection technology into Spreadtrum's SC6600R platform, a high quality multimedia baseband chipset, the Amoi's mobile phones using Spreadtrum's solution should be able to satisfy consumers' varied but growing levels of demand for copyrighted music. We believe this solution enhances the performance and competitiveness of China's domestic music phones."
Spreadtrum Communications is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops, and markets baseband processor solutions for the mobile wireless communications market.
Kuro is a music service provider legally authorized by most record companies for millions of online copyrighted songs, providing high quality music download services.
Posted to the site on 2nd January 2008
