News Release

Sprite Mobile’s Sprite Clone 5.3 Provides Rapid and Reliable Provisioning for Windows Pocket PC and Smartphone Devices

AUCKLAND, NZ — November. 15, 2006 - Sprite Software today unveiled Sprite Clone 5.3, bringing new functionality for the mass deployment of Pocket PCs and Smartphones within heterogeneous environments. Just like laptops and desktops, cloning represents the most rapid and reliable means by which to distribute an identical image to multiple mobile devices and thereby assure consistency and cost effectiveness.

Sprite Clone is designed to deploy an identical policy based corporate image to all your mobile devices. From the original creators of the industry leading Symantec Ghostâ„¢ cloning solution, Sprite Clone provides award winning rapid deployment of your standards based image to all your devices.

“Organizations of all sizes are faced with the challenges of managing and ensuring security and consistency within a mixed mobile device environment”, said Thom Bailey, chief marketing officer, Sprite Software. Sprite Clone 5.3 offers an organization the ability by which to mass deploy corporate applications, security configurations, and other policy approved customizations in a fraction of the time and budget compared to setting devices up manually. In return, newly provisioned Pocket PC and Smartphones running Windows Mobile will comply with corporate standards and the IT cost of managing these devices will be significantly reduced”.

Comprehensive Provisioning Across both Pocket PC and Smartphone Devices

Sprite Clone 5.3 provides the industry’s first Windows Mobile cloning solution for both the Pocket PC and Smartphone form factor. Additional key features include:

  • Additional Device Support - Cloning for the Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone Edition operating system
  • Imaging Clean-up - Total removal of any temporary files left during the cloning process in order to alleviate storage issues on a given device
  • White-Label Support - Fully customizable interface in order to support private labeling by System Integrators, VARs, other software vendors, or OEMs

Other key continuing features include:

  • Ease of Use - Intuitive image capture and deployment
  • Image Security - Password Protection in order to safeguard an image and prevent baseline changes
  • Hardware Independence - Unique ability by which to deploy a single image to multiple devices irrespective of their ROM versioning
  • Post-Cloning Configuration - Save time and the risk for mistakes by not having to manually apply device specific custom settings including, unique device naming, IP address, etc
  • Command-Line Execution - Enables the launch of post deployment command line applications to further streamline the device including, device-specific encryption parameters or Time Zone settings
  • Network Security - Configure critical networking connections relative to a given device’s security policy

About Sprite Software

Sprite Software provides solutions to help individuals and businesses assure the security, availability, and integrity of their information. Founded in 2001 by the creators of the industry-leading cloning solution now known as Symantec Ghost businesses and consumers now turn to Sprite Software as the trusted vendor for the protection of critical information stored on their handheld devices and mobile phones. More information is available at www.spritesoftware.com.

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