UK Oil & Gas Regulatory News (UKOG)

15 Feb 2008 07:01

Sarantel Group PLC15 February 2008 15 February 2008 SARANTEL GROUP PLC Design win for rugged mobile phone with Sonim Sarantel (AIM: SLG), the leading manufacturer of revolutionary filteringantennas for mobile and wireless devices, has secured a design win with SonimTechnologies for a rugged outdoor mobile phone which has integrated assisted-GPSfunctionality. David Wither, Chief Executive of Sarantel said: "We are very pleased to work with Sonim on this highly differentiated GPSenabled mobile phone. GPS capability is enabling a broad range of mobileapplications and is changing the way innovative companies like Sonim addresstheir customer's needs." Jonathan Spinney, VP Business Development at Sonim said: "Sarantel's best-in-class GeoHelix antenna offers the additional sensitivity ourXtreme Performance handsets which need to operate properly in the error-proneoutdoor environments our customers work in. We are pleased to be working withSarantel to solve these problems for our customers, and look forward toextending these capabilities to our larger community of users and partners." Enquiries: SarantelDavid Wither, Chief Executive Officer 01933 670 560Sitkow Yeung, Finance Director College Hill 020 7457 2020Adrian Duffield/ Ben Way Notes to Editors: Sarantel (www.sarantel.com) Sarantel is a leader in the design of high-performance miniature antennas forportable wireless applications including hand-held navigation, satellite radioand laptop computers. Sarantel's revolutionary ceramic filtering antennas offer dramatically improvedperformance over existing antenna designs, resulting in a clearer signal, betterrange and a 90 per cent reduction in the amount of signal radiation absorbed bythe body. Because of their smaller size and higher capabilities, Sarantel's antennasenable manufacturers to create innovative high-volume consumer productsincorporating technologies such as GPS, Wi-Fi, WiMax, 3G, GPRS, Satellite Radioand Bluetooth. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange