Zi Corporation’s eZiText® Picked for World’s Smallest 3G Mobile

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Zi Corporation’s eZiText® Picked for World’s Smallest 3G Mobile Handset

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News Article February 2005

3GSM Congress, Cannes, France and Calgary, AB, Canada February 11, 2005 - Zi Corporation (Nasdaq: ZICA) (TSX: ZIC), a leading provider of intelligent interface solutions, announced today that its eZiText® predictive text solution is now shipping on the F808 – the world’s smallest 3G handset – from ZTE Corporation, China’s largest supplier of telecommunications infrastructure.

The F808 has taken the mobile telecommunications market by storm ever since it was unveiled recently at Expocomm in China. Weighing in at only 104 grams and measuring just 88.5mm x 44.6mm x 22.5mm, the F808 includes Zi’s user-friendly eZiText; as well as, multimedia messaging and rotatable 300,000 pixel camera among its many features.

“As the leading suppliers of text input solutions to China and the surrounding Asian market, we are absolutely delighted that ZTE has chosen eZiText for this flagship world-leading handset,” said Glen Morgan, senior vice president of global sales and marketing for Zi Corporation. “Our intuitive and easy-to-use text input solution supports not only the current market demand for text messaging but also the future revenue-generating 3G services that operators will bring to their customers.”

“ZTE is proud of its position in the forefront of all mobile technologies and the development of the F808 shows our expertise stretches from network infrastructure to handsets,” said ZTE senior vice president He Shiyou. “We are confident that our users will find the F808 texting solution with eZiText easy to use in their every day communication.”

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