Paris, France, November 9 2004 - Realeyes3D, a pioneer of innovative end-user applications for camera phones, today announced it will distribute its w-Greetings™ personalized messaging solution to wireless network subscribers worldwide using the new Preminet® Solution from Nokia. Preminet is an end-to-end global sales channel for mobile content downloads that will make w-Greetings™, which allows mobile camera phone users to send electronic greetings cards complete with their own handwritten content, available to millions of consumers around the world who own Symbian handsets. Symbian is the most popular smartphone platform in the world, running over two-thirds of the world’s smartphones.

W-Greetings™ joins a growing roster of pre-tested and certified world-class applications and content available to operators in the Preminet Master Catalog. W-Greetings™ allows wireless users to send real handwritten greeting messages for the first time in just a couple of clicks using only their camera phone, a pen and paper.

“We’re delighted to be working with Nokia on downloadable content as an extension of our expertise in embedded camera phone features. Our inclusion in the Preminet® launch is proof of our commitment to provide mobile carriers with carrier-grade, industry certified applications for camera phone users,” says Realeyes3D CEO Benoit Bergeret. “W-Greetings™ is unique in the way that it allows users to send any greeting cards from any country or culture, complete with the user’s handwriting - making the process of mobile messaging far more personal. Handwriting on a greetings card makes it truly special to receive. W-Greetings™ also represents a fantastic opportunity for mobile carriers in all areas of the world to offer their customers a unique and compelling application, as well as increasing picture messaging traffic and gaining additional revenue.”

Preminet® helps content aggregators and developers, including the 1.6 million members of Forum Nokia - the world’s largest wireless developer community -make more money quickly and easily from their Java and Symbian software. Analyst firm Ovum expects that within three years, annual shipments of Symbian smartphones will top 100 million per year, while the total number of Java-enabled phones in the market will be over 1.5 billion. Preminet is also air interface agnostic and works across GSM, CDMA and all other types of cellular networks.

Preminet content is available as part of an complete end-to-end offering from Forum Nokia that includes the Preminet Master Catalog, Preminet Service Delivery Platform and Preminet Purchasing Client, an innovative software application that make it easy for end-users to discover, try and buy mobile applications, content and services. Operators can integrate Preminet content into their own download delivery systems or have Nokia provide a complete hosted solution.

About Realeyes3D

Realeyes3D S.A. (www.realeyes3d.com) designs, develops and markets award-winning end-user applications for camera phones that enable new usages in mobile messaging, entertainment and personal productivity. This in turn provides handset vendors with improved end-user perceived handset value and mobile operators with significant incremental messaging traffic. The company's patent-pending embedded image processing technologies received the French Ministry of Technology Innovation Awards in 2001 and in 2002. A private company headquartered in Paris, France, Realeyes3D is backed by first-rate private investors I-Source Gestion (www.isourcegestion.fr), Siemens Mobile Acceleration (www.siemens.com/mobileacceleration), and Partech International (www.partechvc.com).

W-Greetings™

W-Greetings™ allows camera phone users to send greetings cards with real handwritten messages in just a few easy to follow steps using any pen and pa per - just like it was meant to be. W-Greetings™ is compatible with Nokia Series 60: 3230, 3650, 6600, 6620, 7650, 7610, 6620 and 6670, as well as with Siemens Series 60: SX-1 handsets.

About Other Realeyes3D Products

Phone2Fun Digitizer™

As a simple end user feature embedded in the terminal, Phone2Fun Digitizer™ enables camera phone users to create and send handwritten messages containing anything you can imagine writing with a standard pen and paper. Examples range from scribbles, sketches, maps, notes, drawings to anything a mobile user may choose to create and send, with their own personal touch.

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