Motorola, Inc.'s Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS) and France
Telecom R&D today announced they have a plan for prototyping
future multimedia applications on 2.5 and 3G mobile phone
platforms powered by DragonBall MX1 microprocessors.

France Telecom and its subsidiary Orange, which has more than 33
million customers worldwide, intends to use Motorola's DragonBall
MX1 to study the requirements of future terminals providing high
quality multimedia services in a mobile environment. The study is
designed to determine the feasibility and quality of future
multimedia services, such as video streaming on France Telecom's
UMTS network.

"This Research Collaborative Agreement is an important element of
our strategy on the 2.5 and 3G multimedia terminals," said Jacques
Guichard, director for human interfaces at France Telecom R&D.
"From a strategic point of view, we must ensure that manufacturers
will develop future terminals with capabilities required by
applications and services we are developing now in our R&D lab. To
be successful, we must make these studies and experiments now two
years before the terminals are introduced in the market.
Obviously, we believe that this collaboration and study will
provide the critical information we need to make the right
decisions."
"The choice of the DragonBall MX1 enables France Telecom to test
audio/video multimedia for their UMTS network," said Thierry
Cammal, general manager for Europe/Middle East/Africa in
Motorola's Wireless and Broadband Systems Group. "Our DragonBall
MX1 is designed to deliver rich multimedia capabilities while
providing ease of use, long battery life and high performance. Our
advanced multimedia development environment, system-on-chip
expertise and software tools can help France Telecom bring video
streaming to their UMTS customers more quickly."

The research will be done at a France Telecom R&D laboratory in
Meylan, France (near Grenoble), which is working on Human
Interfaces, Prospective Terminals and Smart Devices, including
handsets of the future, concept phones and concept applications.

DragonBall MX1 Product Information

The DragonBall MX1 microprocessor is designed for smaller,
lighter, lower-cost mobile products, such as advanced information
appliances, smart phones, Web browsers/tablets, digital media
audio players, handheld computers and mobile data/voice
applications such as France Telecom's wireless cellular products.

To deliver total solutions to the market, the DragonBall family
has developed licensing agreements with ARM Holding for use of the
ARM920T core technology on the DragonBall MX1; Sony Corporation
for use of its Memory Stick(TM) interface on DragonBall MX1; and
Digianswer A/S for its Bluetooth(TM) wireless technology on
DragonBall MX1. Motorola is a board member of the Secure Digital
Association.

The DragonBall family is compatible with industry-leading systems
such as the Palm OS platform, Microsoft(R) Windows(R) CE operating
system, Linux(R) operating system, and Symbian(TM) operating
system.

The DragonBall family is fully supported with the CodeWarrior(R)
development environment from Metrowerks(R), a Motorola company.
With more than 35,000 registered users developing applications
with CodeWarrior for Palm OS handheld tools, Metrowerks is the
leading commercial tools provider for the DragonBall platform. The
Metrowerks CodeWarrior IDETM has been precisely tailored to the
MX1 while fully integrating the necessary ARM920T software
products. In this way, users already familiar with ARM tools may
get up to speed very quickly. In addition, the MX1 CodeWarrior
software provides an easy transition from 68K core-based
applications to the MX1 based on the ARM core as part of our
policy of providing a continual upgrade path for DragonBall family
tools.

About France Telecom R&D

France Telecom R&D, the France Telecom group's research and
development center, drives innovation for all group units in
France and worldwide. The center anticipates technological
revolutions and paradigm shifts in usage. The center focuses on
innovation that provides customers with best-in-class
communications solutions, paving the way for technologies that
will become ubiquitous in the future. The performance of France
Telecom R&D makes it Europe's leading telecom research and
development center.