Smith Micro Software Unveils 'QuickLink Music' Dramatically Improving the Mobile Music Management Experience

Smith Micro Software Unveils 'QuickLink Music' Dramatically Improving the Mobile Music Management Experience

Intuitive Multimedia Management Application Allows Wireless Carriers to Brand Their Multimedia Service Offerings From Online Stores to Mobile Handsets

LOS ANGELES, CTIA Wirelees IT & Entertainment 2006, Sept. 12
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smith Micro Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:SMSI), a developer of a wide range of software products and services for the wireless market, announces QuickLink(C) Music, an intuitive, PC-based multimedia manager for mobile phones. QuickLink Music has been designed around the needs of both wireless carriers and their customers. The application provides end-users with the ability to easily download music files from a carrier's music store(s), to organize their music library, and to upload songs to a broad range of mobile devices. QuickLink Music also offers the carrier the opportunity to custom-brand the entire multimedia experience.

QuickLink Music is a highly-intuitive application making it quick and easy for end-users to install the application and drivers needed to synchronize music between their PC and mobile devices. QuickLink Music also facilitates managing the mobile phone's available memory -- the "at a glance" feature tells the user how many songs can fit in the mobile device at any time.

"We are very excited to be offering wireless carriers such an innovative solution that takes the guess work out of mobile music and promotes the carrier's brand throughout the entire multimedia management experience. This is a testament to our ability to develop unique solutions that benefit our wireless customers' service offerings," said William W. Smith, Jr., President and CEO of SMSI. "Just as camera phones gained consumer acceptance over traditional cellular phones, we believe that market indicators now show that music-capable mobile phones are fast becoming the "must have" device for music lovers on the go."

End-user benefits to QuickLink Music include:
* A streamlined application installation routine
* Integrated support for connecting to the most popular music-capable
mobile phones
* The ability to navigate to online multimedia stores from your PC
* An easy process for purchasing songs for download to the PC
* The ability to organize your music library directly from the PC,
including the abilities to create playlists, view by genre/artist, etc.
* The ability to monitor the phone's internal and removable memory
resources

Key benefits for wireless carriers include the abilities to:
* Customize and brand the entire multimedia management experience from
start to finish
* Drive customers directly to preferred online music stores
* Increase subscriber data usage and ARPU
* Offer through their retail stores, music accessory kits compatible with
their broad range of multimedia handsets
* Support industry-standard digital rights management, OMA and OMA 2.0

Smith Micro develops innovative communications software for the wireless industry. Its leading-edge products simplify communications access over both Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWANs) and Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), and its compression technology, StuffIt, has been established as an industry standard. Over 5 million licenses of Smith Micro's QuickLink Mobile technology have been shipped in just the last several years, making QuickLink Mobile the preferred choice of carriers and end-users alike.

About Smith Micro Software:

Smith Micro develops communications and entertainment software solutions for the wireless industry. Its leading-edge products simplify communications access over both Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWANs) and Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), our media management solutions are quickly being adopted and distributed by carriers throughout the world and our compression technology, StuffIt Wireless, is on its way to establishing a new industry standard.

Smith Micro Software, Inc., headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA, is a developer and marketer of wireless communication, broadband and utility software products for multiple OS platforms. The company designs integrated cross platform, easy-to-use software for personal computing and business solutions around the world. With a focus on Wireless and Broadband technologies and the Internet, the company's products and services enable wireless communications, file and image compression, media management, Internet communications (voice-over-IP), and video conferencing. The Consumer division develops and publishes award-winning software solutions for Windows and Macintosh, empowering users in the areas of information access, removal, recovery, security, and Internet distribution. Smith Micro's leading brands are QuickLink(R), StuffIt(R), Internet Cleanup(TM) and Spring Cleaning(R). Smith Micro's complete line of products is available through Smith Micro's Enterprise Group, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), the company website at www.smithmicro.com, retail stores, and through value-added resellers (VARs). Smith Micro's common stock trades on The Nasdaq Stock Market(R) under the symbol SMSI.

This release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including without limitation risks and uncertainties relating to the company's financial prospects and projections, the company's plans for returning to sustained profitability and the company's ability to increase its business in segments of the company. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are new and changing technologies, customer acceptance of those technologies, fluctuations or cancellations in orders from distribution customers, new and continuing adverse economic conditions, and the company's ability to compete effectively with other software companies. These and other factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those presented in any forward-looking statement and are discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its recent filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q.

Smith Micro, the Smith Micro logo, QuickLink are trademarks or registered trademarks of Smith Micro Software, Inc. StuffIt and StuffIt Image, Internet Cleanup and Spring Cleaning are trademarks or registered trademarks of Allume Systems, Inc., a division of Smith Micro Software. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective companies.

Source: Smith Micro Software, Inc.

CONTACT: INVESTOR RELATIONS, Bruce T. Quigley, Vice President of
Business Development and Investor Relations of Smith Micro Software, Inc.,
+1-949-362-5800, bquigley@smithmicro.com; or Charles Messman, Todd Kehrli,
both of MKR Group, +1-818-556-3700, ir@mkr-group.com, for Smith Micro
Software, Inc.; or Nisha Kapoor of Smith Micro Software, Inc.,
+1-949-362-8500, nkapoor@smithmicro.com; or MEDIA INQUIRIES, Bruce Freeman of
ProLine Communications, +1-973-716-9457, bfreeman@proline-com.com, for Smith
Micro Software, Inc.

Web site: http://www.smithmicro.com/

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