FlashPoint and SANYO Align for Production of Wireless-Capable Cameras

FlashPoint announced today that SANYO intends to license Digita Photivity technology to create new digital cameras compatible with FlashPoint's wireless imaging platform. The cameras will be compatible with the wireless imaging service to be offered by Sprint PCS, which has licensed FlashPoint's Photivity platform to provide wireless imaging solutions to mobile professionals via the Sprint PCS nationwide network. Customers will be able to send images wirelessly using a SANYO digital camera connected to a Sprint PCS Internet-ready Phone and data cable.
"The SANYO relationship is a significant alliance for FlashPoint and the Photivity platform," said FlashPoint president Stephen Saylor. "With SANYO products connecting to the Photivity platform, mobile professionals will be able to choose from a wide selection of high-quality digital cameras to meet their wireless imaging needs. These cameras will be designed to function as wireless appliances, helping to make wireless photography a must-have tool for business collaboration and workflow enhancement."

"We at SANYO Fisher Company are excited by the possibilities of incorporating FlashPoint's technology in order to advance the adoption of wireless imaging in the United States," said Atsushi Kodera, group vice president of Communications and Information Technology for Sanyo Fisher Company, a division of SANYO North America Corporation, a subsidiary of SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. "The Photivity platform is quickly becoming the standard for wireless photography, as demonstrated by FlashPoint's relationship with Sprint PCS. We anticipate that, working together, we can gain significant market share in wireless Internet imaging."

"With SANYO producing digital cameras linking to the Photivity platform, Sprint PCS customers will have more device choices to wirelessly send images, once this innovative mobile service is available, via the Sprint PCS nationwide network," said Jay Highley, vice president, Business Marketing, Sprint PCS. "Being able to send pictures to a web site in real time will be a valuable productivity tool to a broad range of industries from insurance and real estate, to journalism and architectural engineering."

FlashPoint and SANYO will show a Photivity enabled SANYO digital camera at the Photo Marketing Association conference, PMA 2001, in Orlando, Florida, on February 11-14. (PMA Booth #1491)

SOURCE FlashPoint Technology, Inc
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