T-Mobile and Nokia Collaborate to Open up an Integrated Marketplace for Mobile Content and Internet Services
BARCELONA, Spain (Mobile World Congress 2009) and ESPOO, Finland,
February 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and T-Mobile today
announced plans to promote together their respective offering for widgets,
applications and other content to provide customers with easy access to a
vast range of Internet services. The customer can browse and download widgets
from both the T-Mobile widget gallery and Nokia's Ovi Store using T-Mobile's
web'n'walk widget platform. The integrated marketplace will be available
during the second half 2009 on mass market Nokia Series 40 platform based
phones.
T-Mobile's web'n'walk widget platform will be supported on Series 40
based feature phones, the highest selling devices in Europe to date. A Java
based widget client makes it possible for both offerings to co-exist.
This co-operation takes the new web'n'walk widget platform into the mass
market and opens up the long tail of applications and services from Nokia's
Ovi Store and T-Mobile's widget gallery.
"T-Mobile and Nokia share a joint vision of offering an unparalleled
mobile Internet experience to its customers. The co-existence of our widget
gallery with Nokia's Ovi Store ensures customers have access to an extensive
range of interesting and relevant Internet services that they can customize
according to their personal preferences," said Rainer Deutschmann, Senior
Vice President, Mobile Internet at T-Mobile International.
"Nokia Series 40 devices offer a great platform to deliver the Ovi Store
experience and once the Ovi Store is available, you'll be able to enjoy the
most relevant content from the people and places that matter to you," said
Urpo Karjalainen, Senior Vice President, Operator Channels, at Nokia. "We are
excited to be partnering with T-Mobile on the most compelling mobile Internet
experience for mass market yet."
T-Mobile's next release of web'n'walk featuring the new widget platform,
announced today, brings customers even closer to their Internet. Launching in
spring it will provide customers with fast access to their favourite Internet
services through widgets and applications directly from their idle screen.
Nokia's Ovi Store, announced yesterday, will offer consumers relevant,
targeted media through their social connections and their physical location
information. Content providers, developers and the existing Forum Nokia
developer ecosystem can sign up at publish.ovi.com to be the first to
distribute their media through the Ovi Store. The generic Ovi Store service
will be available in early May for consumers. The integrated marketplace with
T-Mobile will be available during the second half of 2009.
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and
growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. Nokia makes
a wide range of mobile devices and provides people with experiences in music,
navigation, video, television, imaging, games and business mobility through
these devices. Nokia also provides equipment, solutions and services for
communications networks. http://www.nokia.com
T-Mobile International - The future of mobile communications
T-Mobile International is a global leader in mobile communications
offering wireless voice, messaging and data services capable of reaching 128
million people, as at 31st December 2008, where they live, work and play.
T-Mobile International operates in 12 countries world-wide.
The company provides its customers with the latest technologies and
innovative multimedia services, and is a global pioneer of the mobile
Internet. T-Mobile is a founding member of FreeMove, one of the world's
leading business alliances delivering simple, cost-effective roaming services
to over 230 million customers around the world.
T-Mobile International is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom
AG, one of the fore-most integrated telecommunications companies worldwide.
With its three product brands,
T-Home, T-Mobile and T-Systems, the company offers its customers around
the world modern telecommunications products and services from fixed-network
telephony, broad-band Internet, mobile communications and ICT solutions.
