The TrueNTRY X125 platform comprises system chips, software and a product development kit.

"Music phones are becoming a very important segment and growing at a tremendous pace. This platform , the first to offer entry level prices yet very high quality music, will help increase these trends," Simon Cosgrove, senior marketing manager for Ageres Mobility Division, told EE Times Europe .

He said the platform, housed together with storage technology, is targeted at OEMs and ODMs developing mobile phones for the Chinese and Indian markets and as a replacement model for mature markets where CD-quality music is a selling point.

Volume production of the platform is scheduled for next month, and Cosgrove said he anticipates the first products using the platform to be shipping by the end of the year.

The 125 is part of Ageres TrueNTRY range of products designed specifically for entry level basic and voice centric phones, and compliments the companys Vision X115 range targeted at smartphones and feature rich models.

The platform incorporates an ARM9 based applications processor and integrates a speaker amplifier, CD quality stereo, polyphonic sound synthesizer, battery charging circuits with over-voltage protection, and power management circuits to support all the phone peripherals.

As with the Vision architecture, the applications processor is decoupled from the communications engine and manages both such that the protocol stack is never compromised by an applications processing operation.

The platform uses Ageres EDGE protocol stack that is already used in over 11 million phones, spread amongst about 50 different models.

It also uses the OptiVerse software architecture.