Synchronica Plc (LON:SYNC), the mobile technology group whose products include next-generation mobile messaging services, has launched the Mobile Gateway MediaTek Toolkit for device manufacturers using MediaTek chipsets. What this means is that device manufacturers that use MediaTex chips can add advanced messaging services to their mass-market handsets by using a toolkit of technical and commercial resources. Shares in Synchronica fell by 1.8% to 1.38p early on.

MediaTek Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company and one of the biggest mobile chipset suppliers to Chinese phone manufacturers. The company is a market leader and pioneer in cutting-edge SOC (system-on-chip) solutions for wireless communications and was recently voted the twelfth top Global 100 High-Tech company by Bloomberg Business.

Synchronica's award-winning Mobile Gateway is a platform for next-generation mobile messaging. Based on industry-standards (IMAP, OMA DS, IMPS), Mobile Gateway does not use a JAVA application on the device, but instead provides messaging services directly to the native clients of the MediaTek platform. This approach delivers the best possible user experience with minimal memory footprint enabling Smartphone-like features even on low-end, mass-market MediaTek chipsets.

Synchronica has built up substantial experience with the MediaTek platform. Its MessagePhone, which was launched in February this year as a low-cost, message-enabled device aimed at emerging markets, uses MediaTek chipsets. The company is also working closely with several device manufacturers that are planning to launch MediaTek-based mass-market devices, bundled with Mobile Gateway.

Carsten Brinkschulte, Synchronica’s chief executive, said: “The Mobile Gateway MediaTek Toolkit provides device manufacturers with the technical resources and infrastructure services required to provide users with a consistent messaging user experience with minimal memory footprint and fast execution, even on low-end, mass-market devices.”

A note by broker HB Markets said MediaTek’s position as one of the leading suppliers to the Chinese mobile phone manufacturers was central to this morning’s the announcement. HBM said it was maintaining a “speculative buy” recommendation for Synchronica, noting that some handsets using MediaTek chipsets and Synchronica software had already been launched.

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