Purple™ Announces a Faster, Easier Way to Make Calls with Anywhere Contact List

May 18, 2011 - PRLog -- ROCKLIN, CALIF., MAY 17, 2011 – Purple Communications™, Inc.  (“Purple”), a leading provider of innovative communications solutions and services for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, has created a faster, easier way to make calls with Purple‟s Anywhere Contact List.

“At Purple, we are all about „easy‟ and choice, and understand many of our customers use several different VRS options in addition to Purple VRS products and services,” said Norman Chan, director of outreach. “Our Anywhere Contact List eliminates click, click, clicking the remote down to find a phone number for people who still use a VP-200®.”

By using Purple.tv through a VP-200, callers just need to give the name of the person they want to call to the video interpreter (VI) instead of using their remote control to scroll through an often long list of contacts – a considerably faster and easy way to make a call.

“Just the other day, a VP-200 user told me he had to call somebody but he couldn‟t remember the person‟s number,” said Vice President of Outreach Mark Bella. “I asked him if he knew the person‟s name, and he said, „Of course,‟ so I told him about our Anywhere Contact List. He tried it and told me he was amazed at how fast and easy it was. He loves it and I know other VRS users will, too.”

For more information, visit http://purple.us/anywhere/, or call Purple Customer Care at 877-885-3172.

Purple’s Anywhere Contact List Additional Benefits Include
Privacy: VI‟s do not have access to your Anywhere Contact List and only see matches to the name you give them when making a call.
Make Calls with Names NOT Numbers: Users only provide the name of the person he/she wants to call instead of click, click, clicking down the remote control to find the person.
Never lose your information: If your VP-200 breaks or is not working, your contacts will not be lost.

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Purple VRS works on the following smartphones and computers:
Android™
Dell™ Streak™ 5
Dell™ Streak™ 7
HTC EVO™
HTC ThunderBolt™
Motorola Xoom™
Motorola Atrix™ 4G
Nexus S from Google
Samsung™ Epic 4G
Samsung Galaxy Tab™
Samsung Galaxy S™ 4G
T-Mobile® myTouch® 4G
Apple®
Mac®
iPhone 4®
iPod touch® (fourth generation)
iPad 2®

Windows-based PCs

Price and Availability
All Purple apps are free and available now at www.purple.us/trynow.

About Purple
Purple Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of on-site interpreting services, video relay and text relay services, and video remote interpreting, offering a wide array of options designed to meet the varied communication needs of its customers. Purple‟s vision is to enable fast and easy communication between people, inclusive of differences in abilities, languages or locations. For more information on the company or its services, visit www.purple.us. Purple, P3 and the Purple logo are registered trademarks of Purple Communications, Inc. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Safe Harbor
The statements contained in this news release that are not based on historical fact – including statements regarding the anticipated results of the transactions described in this press release – constitute “forward-looking statements” that are made in reliance upon the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “continue,” or similar terms, variations of such terms or the negative of those terms. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to: (i) our ability to integrate the businesses and technologies we have acquired; (ii) our ability to respond to the rapid technological change of the wireless data industry and offer new services; (iii) our dependence on wireless carrier networks; (iv) our ability to respond to increased competition in the wireless data industry; (v) our ability to generate revenue growth; (vi) our ability to increase or maintain gross margins, profitability, liquidity and capital resources; and (vii) difficulties inherent in predicting the outcome of regulatory processes. Such risks and others are more fully described in the Risk Factors set forth in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Our actual results could differ materially from the results expressed in, or implied by, such forward-looking statements. Purple Communications™ is not obligated to update and does not undertake to update any of its forward-looking statements made in this press release. Each reference in this news release to “Purple,” the “Company,” or “We,” or any variation thereof, is a reference to Purple Communications™, Inc. and its subsidiaries.

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Purple Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of on-site interpreting services, video relay and text relay services, and video remote interpreting, offering a wide array of options designed to meet the varied communication needs of its customers. Purple‟s vision is to enable fast and easy communication between people, inclusive of differences in abilities, languages or locations. For more information on the company or its services, visit www.purple.us.