Sophia Systems announces joining the ACCESS Connect Ecosystem (ACE)
Global Partner Program as a charter member

Japan, Feb, 2007: Sophia Systems Co., Ltd. JASDAQ (Sophia 6942), is pleased to announce joining the ACCESS Connect Ecosystem (ACE) Global Partner Program as a charter member to help expand mobile Linux markets and converged device markets.

This newly created ACE partner program is designed to help fuel growth of converging technologies, which is an initiative designed for device development and adoption of new mobile technologies and solutions.

The Global ecosystem includes mobile operators, device manufacturers, infrastructure providers, software developers, semiconductor companies and content providers.

"The ACCESS Connect Ecosystem Partner Program's strategic imperative is to accelerate the growth and momentum of the digital lifestyle and ubiquitous networks worldwide enabled through mobile phones and converged devices", said Toru Arakawa, CEO, president and co-founder of ACCESS. "We believe that this program will not only foster exciting revenue-generating opportunity for mobile operators, infrastructure providers and software developer; but it will also make it easier for consumers to access their digital data anytime, anywhere through a wide variety of mobile phones and converged devices. "

"We are pleased to join the ACCESS Connect Ecosystem (ACE) as a premier partner. We are committed to improving technology that supports engineers in this market, and becoming jointly more successful with our partners". stated Tasuku Kashihira, CEO of Sophia Systems Co., Ltd.

At 3GSM World Congress 2007 (12th, February 2007 - Barcelona, Spain), our "Sandgate-VP", concept model for a hybrid cellular phone(*1) will be exhibited at the ACCESS booth while ACCESS launches this ACE partner program.

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(*1) About hybrid cellular phone
SGVP is a concept model for a hybrid cellular phone that allows IP phone communication within WiFi area, and PHS communication in areas with no WiFi access.

About ACE Partner Program
The ACE partner program joins together the current partner programs from ACCESS Sytems Americas, Inc. (PalmSource's Palm Powered Mobile World.), and ACCESS Co., Ltd. (ACCESS Advanced Alliance program). The newly created ACE partner program is designed to create an ecosystem of world-class partners that will unleash the potential of the digital life generation by driving development and adoption of new mobile and converged technologies and solutions.

About ACCESS Co., Ltd.
ACCESS CO., Ltd. is a global company providing leading technology, software products and platforms for web browsing, mobile phones, wireless handhelds and other networked devices. ACCESS' product portfolio, including its NetFront? browser, Garnet? OS (formerly Palm OS?) and the ACCESS Linux Platform? provide customers with solutions that enable faster time-to-market, flexibility and customizability. The Company, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, operates 29 subsidiaries and affiliates within Asia, Europe and the United States. ACCESS is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Index under the number 4813.
For more information about ACCESS,
please visit http://www.access-company.com/