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Business Relationships Are Good, But Strategic Alliances Are Even Better

Zi Corporation has formed strategic alliances with industry-leading technology providers to develop and deliver its software to the world. These alliances are the cornerstone of Zi strategy, and Zi, in turn, is at the core of the technologies these leaders provide.

Once embedded, Zi products become essential components these technologies for years to come, and those subsequent relationships are further cemented by Zi responsive support resources.

The Zi customer and alliance base is extensive and continually growing. Zi has licensing agreements with more than 100 manufacturers - and the use of Zi products in almost 1,000 unique handset models in every major continent around the world - giving Zi an important global presence.

Seamless Integration - The Unseen Benefit Heard Round The World

Zi innovates with its customers and alliance network - Zi works in collaboration with industry players to develop and advance leading-edge technologies. This success is due to the Zi partnering business philosophy, flexible product modularity, and responsive, strong customer support.

Zi pre-integrates for faster time-to-market - Zi enables partnering companies to offer more complete solutions to their handset manufacturing customers by meeting the growing demand for pre-integrated, pre-tested, and immediately deployable software. Pre-integration reduces a manufacturer's engineering workload and reduces delays common to the development of user interfaces.

Zi adds differentiation to solution - Because the modularity of Zi products allows for easy handset customization, manufacturers can quickly tailor Zi technology to a broad range of languages and features to better differentiate products and address specific market requirements.

Zi enhances usability and speed - An important result of the deep integration work Zi develops with partnering technologies is that users around the world now enjoy a consistent and intuitive text input environment across browsers and messaging applications, enabling them to input text faster and easier, giving them better access to mobile transactions.

Below are just some of the technology companies Zi works closely with to achieve seamless application integration. Contact Zi to learn more about these and many other alliances.


OS, Platforms & Modules



Chipset Solutions

Pre-integrated On All Major OS And UI Platforms For Mobile Phones

Zi has partnered closely with operating system and user-interface platform providers to develop input method editors (IME) also known as front-end processors (FEP) that decrease a manufacturer's integration efforts. These IME solutions are "plug-and-play" products that include fully developed localized interfaces, intuitive displays and user cues so that manufacturers can minimize software engineering effort associated with the development of user interfaces for integrating predictive text on their handsets.

Zi IME solutions work with eZiType and eZiText to deliver a completely packaged predictive text user experience to manufacturers. Handset users will benefit from having an intuitive predictive-text interface that is available for their use across the handset's applications, such as SMS, MMS, e-mail, mobile browsers, contacts, to-do, calendar, memo and more.

Zi has IME solutions for virtually any operating system or user interface platform environment, including:

Microsoft Smartphone

S60 for Symbian OS

UIQ for Symbian OS

ACCESS (formerly PalmSource) OS

Trolltech Qtopia platform
for Linux

In addition to IMEs, Zi has pre-integrations with major technology providers of chipsets, software platforms, reference design platforms, MMI modules, user interface components and other technologies.