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Quasar dials diversification

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Quasar Communications Technology Holdings, due to list on the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) this week, has already begun to diversify from its core mobile phone software business.

The custom software and integration house plans to start trading of its stock tomorrow, after placing 103.6 million shares worth HK$67.3 million.

The company's 'smart' phones designs, which have camera and hand-held computer capabilities, are still in development and may be several years from being produced. However, a prototype device that allows digital camera owners to link their cameras to printers without a computer in the middle has already been finished for a Japanese manufacturer that ordered the design, according to Ra Chang-ju, chairman and chief executive officer of Quasar.

'Our client is one of the leading digital camera manufacturers in Japan,' Mr Ra said, although he declined to name the company.

The client first asked for a set-top box that could support connection to a printer, and Quasar used its software for mobile phones with personal digital assistant (PDA) functions in order to build the product. Future versions would eventually have the ability to connect to code division multiple access (CDMA) mobile phone networks, said Mr Ra.

Other devices under development include a PDA phone running on the Windows CE operating system and a video telephone running on embedded Linux.

On the CDMA mobile phone front, Quasar first entered the mainland market in late 1999, in hopes that China would move quickly in building out its network.

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