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According to company officials, D2 Technologies’ (News - Alert) mCUE is a client software offering for converged mobile unified communications. The tool’s user interface, built on top of a multi-identity, multi-session, multi-protocol engine, “enables users to simultaneously use multiple different communications services and modes.”

It is specifically designed for mobile and portable devices, making it a communications platform for smartphones and mid-range “feature phones,” MIDs, netbooks, and other connected consumer devices such as digital photo frames, media phones, personal navigation devices and eBook readers, company officials say.

Industry observer Michael Licata recentlywrote that the first day of U.S. sales for the HTC EVO 4G “resulted in the largest quantity of a single phone ever sold by Sprint (News - Alert), and shows the heavy consumer demand for Android-based WiMAX mobile devices,” quoting Doug Makishima, chief operating officer at D2 Technologies.

“By showcasing mCUE on the HTC (News - Alert) EVO 4G,” Licata cited Makishima saying, “we can demonstrate to potential customers how it is faster, easier and more affordable for OEMs and service providers to introduce mobile VoIP over WiMAX (News - Alert) and other next generation IP communications devices to market by partnering with D2.”

The mCUE has nterface navigation and push-to-X access to all communication modes -- cellular, VoIP, IM/VoIM, SMS/MMS and video, as well as a converged address book with multi-service presence display, ntegrated contact list, history and session log.

It also features Multi-Session Multi-Protocol with SIP, IMS, XMPP, SIMPLE and others, IM/Social Networks capability with the ability to handle GoogleTalk, Skype, MSN, Yahoo!, Facebook (News - Alert) others, enterprise UC and PBX/IPPBX system support and multiple simultaneous session support, including cross-service call/IM conferencing.

It comes with voice compression and wideband (HD) CODECs, video module with voice/video sync, a media engine framework with PLC, Adaptive JB, Echo Cancellation, AEC and VAD and carrier-grade voice quality and CPU MHz optimization via Kernel level integration

Company officials say mCUE “solves for device manufacturers (OEMs and ODMs) of smartphones, Mobile Internet Devices (MID) and higher end feature phones, the problem of having to address different types of end users, i.e., enterprise users, consumers and the crossover segment between these two user types, prosumers.”