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MILL VALLEY, CA (December 10, 2001) - Handtap Communications and uclick, an Andrews McMeel Universal Company, have teamed up with Sprint to bring Garfield, Ziggy, Cathy and other popular comic characters to Sprint PCS Phones. Sprint recently announced the launch of their new Sprint PCS Ringers and MoreSM wireless download service, a service that allows customers to personalize their phones with well-known characters, music and more. uclick is providing a number of brand-name comic characters to this new service, to keep customers smiling!
This new wireless download service connects Sprint customers with their favorite comic characters from uclick, adapted for wireless devices by Handtap. In addition to perennial favorites such as Garfield, Ziggy and Pat Oliphant's Punk, the offering includes characters from cutting edge, newer comics like Bizarro, Captain RibMan, James and Mr. Man.
Sprint PCS customers
will browse the Sprint PCS Ringers & More content at Sprintpcs.com
or through the Sprint PCS Wireless Web. Content is then wirelessly downloaded
to select Sprint PCS Phones and saved as customized ringers, or, in
the case of uclick content, as screen savers. Handtap and uclick is
part of a select group of partners providing graphics for this new service.
Customers can download up to eight pieces of content from the Sprint
PCS Ringers & More service and store it in their personal "vault"
each month. The content accumulates each month. Sprint PCS Ringers &
More is free for the first three months and is available with three
of the newest Sprint PCS Phones: the Sprint PCS TP5250 by LG; the Sprint
PCS SCP-5150 by Sanyo; and the Sprint PCS Kyocera 2255. After the first
three months, the service will be $4 per month.
The line-up of phones that support the Sprint PCS Ringers & More service will continue to grow throughout 2002 and beyond.
Sprint PCS Ringers
& More content providers are unlike those of any other download
service and include the best in both music and graphics. "With
uclick's content, our customers can now personalize their Sprint PCS
Phones with some of their favorite comic characters," said Chip
Novick, vice president of consumer marketing for
Sprint PCS.
"uclick is pleased to be one of the select companies chosen to work with Sprint PCS to provide graphics for the phones," says Chris Pizey, chief operating officer of uclick. "We are also excited to be working with our wireless partner Handtap Communications to transform uclick's most popular comic characters into customized images tailored specifically for Sprint PCS Phones. Delivering uclick's characters in this new context allows consumers to further deepen their relationship with our brands."
*The Ringers &
More service may not be available in select affiliate markets.
About uclick
uclick is an Andrews McMeel Universal Company. Andrews McMeel Universal
also includes Universal Press Syndicate and Andrews McMeel Publishing.
As the largest packager and distributor of branded comics, word games
and other content on the Web, uclick syndicates the highly sought-after
work of more than 100 content creators to hundreds of sites, including
more than 200 Newspaper Web sites. uclick content is also found on major
portals such as AOL, Yahoo, MSNBC, and iWon. You'll recognize many of
uclick's brands, including: Garfield, Doonesbury, Cathy, FoxTrot, Ziggy,
Boondocks, Pat Oliphant, News of the Weird, Universal Crossword, Dear
Abby and more. uclick is also building brands for the future, like Bizarro
and Heart of the City. In addition, uclick develops and hosts Web sites
of other key creators such as Garfield.com, Doonesbury.com, Ziggy.com
and sites of other key creators.
uclick is located in Kansas City, Mo. Visit us in person or at www.uclick.com.
About Sprint
Sprint is a global communications company serving 23 million business
and residential customers in more than 70 countries. With more than
80,000 employees worldwide and $23 billion in annual revenues, Sprint
is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying state
of the art network technologies, including the United States' first
nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network. Sprint's award-winning
Tier 1 Internet backbone is being extended to key global markets to
provide customers with a broad portfolio of scalable IP products. Sprint's
high-capacity, high-speed network gives customers fast, dependable,
non-stop access to the vast majority of the world's Internet content.
Sprint also operates the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide PCS
wireless network in the United States, already serving the majority
of the nation's metropolitan areas including more than 4,000 cities
and communities.
For more information, visit the Sprint PCS web site at http://www.sprintpcs.com.
About Handtap
Handtap Communications provides multimedia solutions for mobile devices.
Handtap message templates are available for a range of platforms, from
Palm handheld computers to mobile phones worldwide. Handtap also provides
consulting services for a variety of wireless entertainment and communication
projects. For more information, visit www.handtap.com
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