Zi Corporation Licenses Embedded Text Input Technologies to Leading EMS Provider



Zi Corporation to Supply eZiTap? and eZiText? Predictive Text Input Technologies



BEIJING, HONG KONG AND CALGARY, AB, CANADA, -/30 Dec, 2004 - Wi-Fi Technology News/- Zi Corporation (Nasdaq: ZICA) (TSX: ZIC), a leading provider of intelligent interface solutions, today announced that Flextronics has signed a global license agreement to use its eZiTap? and eZiText? solutions. Flextronics is the leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider focused on delivering innovative design and manufacturing services to technology companies.

The license agreement for eZiTap and eZiText technologies includes a number of innovative and first-to-market features that Zi has developed. These features include personalization and learning dictionaries, word completion and next word prediction; as well as, dual language messaging, which allow simultaneous use of two alphabetic languages without any mode changes by the user.

?We are pleased to be a key supplier of Flextronics for its global development of handsets,? said Glen Morgan, senior vice president of global sales and marketing for Zi Corporation. ?Our goal is that millions more wireless users will experience the real-world benefits of Zi?s innovative technologies and the unmatched usability it brings to their handsets.?

?Zi Corporation and its easy-to-use, predictive text products have an excellent reputation throughout the electronics and intelligent interface industries,? said Tom Deitrich, vice president of ODM products for Flextronics.

eZiText and eZiTap provide users with the power of predictive texting through one-touch or multi-tap input, respectively. Incorporating text input technology into mobile devices enables manufacturers and telecom carriers to provide consumers with richer, more personalized text input experiences. In combination with its language databases, Zi?s predictive input technology can be made available in almost any written language. To date, Zi offers 41 written languages to customers around the world.


About Zi Corporation
Zi Corporation (http://www.zicorp.com) is a technology company that delivers intelligent interface solutions to enhance the user experience of wireless and consumer technologies. The company's intelligent predictive text interfaces, eZiTap and eZiText, allow users to personalize the device and simplify text entry providing consumers with easy interaction for short messaging, e-mail, e-commerce, Web browsing and similar applications in almost any written language. Zi supports its strategic partners and customers from offices in Asia, Europe and North America. A publicly traded company, Zi Corporation is listed on the NASDAQ National Market (ZICA) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (ZIC).