TELUS Announces Motorola RAZR VE20 Handset Featuring Zi Corporation's Qix: Financial News

TELUS Announces Motorola RAZR VE20 Handset Featuring Zi Corporation's Qix
Wednesday October 1, 2008 8:00 am ET

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(MARKET WIRE)--Oct 1, 2008 -- Zi Corporation (Toronto:ZIC.TO - News)(ZICA - News) (the "Company" or "Zi"), a leading innovator of mobile discovery & advertising solutions, and TELUS (Toronto:T.TO - News)(Toronto:T-A.TO - News)(NYSE:TU - News), a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, today announced the availability of a second cell phone in a series of Qix(TM)-enabled mass-market phones from TELUS.

Qix for BREW available on Motorola's RAZR VE 20 from TELUS, is an important milestone of a larger effort to introduce Mobile Discovery to North American consumers. Mobile Discovery is focused on finding and using features, services, and content on mobile phones. With a few key presses, Mobile Discovery showcases the possibilities of any device from contacts to call log, music, and videos, and from TELUS content to Internet content.

Milos Djokovic, President and CEO of Zi Corporation, said "We are very pleased to work with TELUS and Motorola on this implementation as part of our plan for deployment of Qix-enabled handsets in North America. This handset proves that Qix is deployable on virtually any embedded environment and we are pursuing opportunities to take advantage of this market position"

Stephen Ospalak, TELUS vice-president of Mobile and Future Friendly Home devices, said "We believe that each client has different needs and it's our commitment to offer them as many choices as possible to answer those needs. Qix Mobile Discovery solution gives us a great competitive advantage and enables our clients to find and do more with their phones."

About TELUS

TELUS (Toronto:T.TO - News)(Toronto:T-A.TO - News)(NYSE:TU - News) is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $9.4 billion of annual revenue and 11.4 million customer connections including 5.8 million wireless subscribers, 4.3 million wireline network access lines and 1.2 million Internet subscribers. TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services including data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, entertainment and video. In support of our philosophy to give where we live, TELUS, our team members and alumni have contributed $113 million to charitable and not-for-profit organizations and volunteered more than 2.1 million hours of service to local communities since 2000. Nine TELUS Community Boards across Canada lead our local philanthropic initiatives. For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.com.

About Zi Corporation

Zi Corporation is a leading provider of discovery and usability solutions for Mobile Search, Input and Advertising. Zi Corporation's suite of award-winning products offers innovative ways for mobile operators to showcase new services and content to their subscribers, while encouraging users to get the most out of their communication devices. Increased device usage can help mobile operators drive additional revenues and lead to improved customer retention.

Zi products are featured on more than 1000 handset models and implemented across most technology platforms in the market today.

Zi is a software company committed exclusively to evolving its innovative product family in support of its licensees worldwide. A publicly traded company, Zi Corporation is currently listed on NASDAQ (ZICA) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (ZIC). For more information, please visit zicorp.com.

This release may be deemed to contain forward-looking statements under applicable securities laws. These forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements regarding future events and the future financial performance of Zi Corporation, such as future deployments of Qix-embedded handsets and other opportunities related to Qix, that involve risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned that these forward-looking statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results due to a variety of factors, including: future deployments of Qix-embedded handsets on the TELUS network; future mass-market deployments of Qix; the growth trends in the input technology industry; new product development; global economic conditions and uncertainties in the geopolitical environment; financial and operating performance of Zi OEM customers and variations in their customer demand for products and services; the ability to successfully acquire businesses and technologies and to successfully integrate and operate these acquired businesses and technologies; dependence on the introduction and market acceptance of new product offerings and standards; rapid technological and market change; matters affecting Zi Corporation's significant shareholder; litigation involving patents, intellectual property, and other matters; the ability to recruit and retain key personnel; Zi Corporation's ability to manage financial risk; currency fluctuations and other international factors; potential volatility in operating results and other factors listed in Zi Corporation's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Any projections in this release are based on limited information currently available to Zi Corporation, which is subject to change. Although any such projections and the factors influencing them will likely change, except to the extent required by law, Zi Corporation will not necessarily update the information. Such information speaks only as of the date of this release.

Zi(TM), eZiType(TM), eZiText(TM), Decuma(TM) and Qix(TM) are trademarks of Zi and/or its subsidiaries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.