Isabella Products’ Vizit™ Digital Photo Frame Wins at GSMA’s Embedded Mobile Competition
Concord, Mass., February 15, 2010 – Consumer electronics company Isabella Products was selected as the winner of the Best Embedded Mobile Device Award, part of the GSMA’s Embedded Mobile Competition, which was announced today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Isabella Products received the award for their first product Vizit™–the first two-way, touch screen, photo sharing device to deliver images over the mobile network from anywhere in the world via email or MMS.
Vizit was selected from a shortlist of products by a panel of nine judges from mobile operators and industry analyst firms who rated entries on innovation, functionality, their business model and market potential.
Isabella Products’ CEO, Matthew I. Growney said, “We’re proud to receive such an important recognition from the GSMA. The Best Embedded Mobile Device category was extremely competitive and we’re thrilled that Vizit was seen as the exciting new consumer device that we believe it is. Isabella’s design and use of mobile technology allows photo sharing to be simpler and faster, while allowing everyone to participate in an interactive experience. We want to thank the council and its members for selecting Vizit.”
Vizit is a revolutionary two-way photo sharing frame enables consumers to interact with billions of unshared images found within camera phones, PCs and the Internet by combining a state-of-the-art touch-screen display with wireless network capabilities. Vizit receives photos in just moments, allowing friends and family to send photos of life’s most important moments in real-time keeping loved ones connected regardless of location. With just a touch of the screen, Vizit users can share, reply to, forward, favorite, and delete any image on the frame. All photos sent to Vizit are automatically archived within a user’s personal Vizitme.com account. VizitMe.com is a secure photo management website which allows users to remotely manage, edit, delete and organize the photos on their frame.
Isabella Products’ CEO Matthew Growney to be Featured Speaker at AT&T Developer’s Summit
Matthew I. Growney has been selected to participate in the AT&T Developer Summit 2010 in Las Vegas, NV. The Summit will be held at the Las Vegas Palms Casino and Resort, on Wednesday, January 6, 2010, alongside the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
Growney will co-present along with Dave Haight, vice president of AT&T’s emerging devices organization. The session, entitled “Bringing Partners to Market,” is slated for the emerging devices organization track and designed to provide candid insight into the design, development, and market launch of new mobile devices and services within AT&T’s emerging devices framework.
The 2010 AT&T Developer Summit is a day-long event giving developers first access to technology announcements, strategy, guidance, and tools for developing applications on the AT&T Network and devices. Attendees of the 2010 AT&T Developer Summit will be the first to learn about new developments in AT&T’s technology roadmaps. Featured at the Summit will be four different tracks of presentations, panels, and demos for developers who wish to build, market, and sell applications and devices.
“It is a pleasure to join Dave and other top AT&T executives in openly sharing my experience about working with AT&T to commercialize new wireless innovations and to bring Isabella’s new device(s) and services to market this quarter,” states Growney. “I look forward to a very productive session as we meet and learn from many others in the industry at this unique event.”
Isabella Products’ first product, Vizit is a digital photo-sharing device which leverages AT&T’s nationwide wireless network to receive photos from mobile phones, e-mail, computers or Internet photo management sites. Pictures can be sent directly from the Vizit frame to an email address or to another Vizit, enabling users to build a private community of friends and family to share their photos with all at the same time. Vizit’s unique combination of touch-screen technology, innovative software and cellular connectivity creates a rich, yet effortless, photo sharing experience.
