TIGER TELEMATICS AND NVIDIA COLLABORATE ON NEXT GENERATION MOBILE GAMING TECHNOLOGIES AND CONTENT: LONDON — 21 SEPTEMBER, 2004
Gizmondo Europe Ltd, a subsidiary of Jacksonville, Florida-based, Tiger Telematics Inc. (TGTL), announced today that the NVIDIA GoForce 3D 4500 wireless media processor (WMP) has been selected for the eagerly anticipated Gizmondo game pad. The Gizmondo will leverage the superb 3D, video and imaging capabilities of the GoForce 3D 4500 WMP to provide mobile gamers with an exceptionally immersive gaming experience.

In addition, the Gizmondo and NVIDIA collaboration reflects an industry in constant development, where synergy between leading technology suppliers, platforms and game developers is key to delivering compelling content. The two companies will provide content partners with development kits to enable the creation of next-level handheld content for the console. Gizmondo and NVIDIA plan to distribute up to 500 software development kits throughout the game developer community by the end of first half, 2005.

"The GoForce 3D 4500 is the perfect solution for Gizmondo – NVIDIA has a proven record of delivering the type of products gaming enthusiasts want and working with developers and publishers to enable rich, compelling content," said Carl Freer, Managing Director, Gizmondo Europe. "We are extremely pleased to work with NVIDIA on this project — Gizmondo's combination of gaming and multimedia capabilities is going to change the face of mobile gaming."

"Because of its innovative form-factor, impressive technical specifications and strong feature set, Gizmondo has received a great deal of industry attention this year," said Glenn Schuster, general manager, handheld products, NVIDIA Corporation. "With the addition of the GoForce 3D 4500 hardware acceleration, Tiger Telematics is ensuring that Gizmondo users will have a no-compromise gaming experience that is as compelling as what can be achieved on any other platform."

Gizmondo is scheduled for launch in the UK in the fourth quarter this year.

About Gizmondo and GoForce 3D 4500
The GoForce 3D 4500 powered Gizmondo, runs under Microsoft Windows CE.net platform and features a Samsung ARM9 400Mhz processor. The Gizmondo game pad will deliver arcade-quality 3D gaming courtesy of the GoForce 3D 4500's dedicated geometry processor that offloads the main processor to conserve battery life. High resolution, detailed images are enabled through programmable pixel shaders, bilinear and trilinearA texture filtering, texture compression, support for six simultaneous textures and a 40-bit colour pipeline. With the NVIDIA GoForce 3D 4500's horsepower, the Gizmondo can boast a 2.8-inch TFT colour screen, as well as a range of functions including multimedia messaging, an MP3 music player, Mpeg4 support, digital still camera functionality and a GPRS network link to allow wide-area network gaming. The GoForce 3D 4500 also supports early Z calculation to reduce the amount of work done on each pixel in a scene, saving battery life while still delivering a jaw-dropping visual experience. Gizmondo and GoForce 3D 4500 support all standard 3D programming APIs including OpenGL-ES, D3D-Mobile and M3G. Gizmondo also contains a GPS chip for location based services, is equipped with Bluetooth for use in multi-player gaming and accepts MMC card accessories.

GSM tri-band GPRS Class 10 TFT screen ~ 240 x 320 pixels WAP 2.0 MMS receive and send MP3 playback MIDI/WAV formats SMS SpeakerM MPEG 4 video playback JPEG camera SD flash card reader Mini-USB client

Bluetooth class 2 for multiplayer gaming Temperature range 0°C to 55°C 3D games engine Graphics accelerator GPS tracking application GPS mapping application Removable SIM card Removable battery Polyphonic ring tones Stereo headset socket for MP3 and games Windows Media Player 9 Flight Mode