50 Cent's SMS Audio commits to wireless audio quality with aptX®

50 Cent's SMS Audio commits to wireless audio quality with aptX®

Rapper's cutting-edge audio line joins the aptX ecosystem so music lovers can lose the wires without losing audio quality

CAMBRIDGE, England & SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- In a move that proves American rapper and entrepreneur 50 Cent's dedication to improving the way people experience music, CSR plc (LSE: CSR; NASDAQ: CSRE) today announces that SMS Audio, LLC has licensed its aptX® audio codec to ensure music lovers get to experience music delivered wirelessly via Bluetooth® at the same quality as it was created in the studio.

SMS Audio will integrate the aptX audio codec, which ensures sound quality is maintained over a Bluetooth connection, in a new range of high-end wireless speakers and headsets giving users the clearest and cleanest sound wirelessly.

The first products to be launched as part of the new range will be the SYNC by 50™ On-Ear Wireless Headphones and SYNC by 50™ portable Bluetooth speaker and will arrive in retail stores globally in late summer 2013.

"50 Cent created SMS Audio to deliver products that bring not only comfort and fashion but the highest calibre sound quality," says Brian M. Nohe, President, at SMS Audio. "We know that our customers crave high-fidelity audio and that many of them want the convenience of wireless products. aptX is proven to deliver on this, which is why we decided to collaborate with CSR. Now our customers can roam wherever the music takes them without compromising on sound quality."

By joining the ever-expanding aptX ecosystem, SMS Audio will be part of a community of 156 high-profile manufacturers including Samsung and Sony, that all use aptX across a range of audio devices including smartphones, wireless speakers and headsets, to enhance the wireless audio experience.

"SMS Audio is an exciting new audio manufacturer and we are looking forward to complementing their popular style and functionality with our technology," says Anthony Murray, Senior Vice President, Business Group at CSR.

"We are working with manufacturers on a daily basis to meet growing consumer expectations to be able to listen to their music wirelessly while maintaining audio quality. Music lovers can be assured that where they see the aptX logo, they can lose the wires without compromising on audio quality," concludes Murray.

In order to fit within the Bluetooth 'pipe' and be transmitted wirelessly, audio needs to use a bit rate reduction technique. aptX audio technology uses a non-destructive solution to ensure the audio is transmitted over Bluetooth's available bandwidth. It replicates the entire frequency of the audio, maintaining CD-quality audio over the Bluetooth connection and ensuring that users can hear everything as the artist originally intended.

About SMS Audio, LLC

A premier audio headphone and accessories brand, SMS Audio, LLC is dedicated to improving the way people experience music. SMS Audio combines technology, function and style to bring the highest caliber of sound, comfort and fashion to every product. For more information on SMS Audio please contact smsinfo@smsaudio.com or visit www.SMSAudio.com.

About CSR

CSR is a global provider of innovative silicon and software solutions for the location-aware, media-rich, cloud-connected world. Our platforms are optimised for the automotive navigation and infotainment, digital cameras and imaging, connected home infotainment and wireless audio markets. We provide solutions to complex problems in the audio-visual, connectivity and location technology domains across a broad range of markets, with a technology portfolio that includes GPS/GNSS systems, Bluetooth®, Wi-Fi®, FM, NFC, aptX® and CVC™ audio codecs, JPEG, MPEG, H.264 imaging, PDL printing, microcontrollers, DSPs and broadband receivers. CSR's technology solutions and market platforms enable its customers to deliver a superior user experience and are adopted by leaders in the auto, computer, home and mobile markets. More information can be found at www.csr.com. Keep up to date with CSR on our technical blog or CSR people blog, YouTube, Facebook or follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/CSR_plc.

CAUTIONARY NOTE ON FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

This press release contains certain statements (including statements concerning plans and objectives of management for future operations or performance, or assumptions related thereto) that are not historical facts and constitute 'forward looking statements' within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 in relation to CSR's aptX audio codec technology, and their performance characteristics in SMS Audio's headsets, wireless speakers and other consumer electronic products, and other future events and their potential effects on CSR. These forward-looking statements can be identified by words such as 'will,' 'can deliver,' offers', 'allows', 'to enhance,' 'enables,' 'designed to' and other similar expressions regarding the performance characteristics of CSR's aptX audio codec technology, and their performance characteristics in consumer electronics products, and their potential effects on CSR. Any future release of CSR's aptX audio codec technology or consumer electronics products containing such technology, related products or modifications to such products' capability, functionality or features are subject to ongoing evaluation by CSR and its customers, and may or may not be implemented and should not be considered firm commitments by CSR or its customers and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. Such forward-looking statements represent the current expectations and beliefs of management of CSR, and are based upon numerous assumptions regarding CSR's business strategies and the environment in which CSR will operate and therefore involve a number of known and unknown risks, contingencies, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond the control of CSR, including, but not limited to, those detailed from time to time in CSR's periodic reports (whether under the caption Risk Factors or Forward Looking Statements or elsewhere), which are available at the SEC's web site http://www.sec.gov. Each forward looking statement speaks only as of the date hereof. CSR does not undertake to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward looking statements contained herein, otherwise than required by law.

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