SUNNYVALE, California, December 17 /PRNewswire/ --
mywaves, the fastest-growing mobile video destination for consumers, today announced that mywaves will be available in Download!, the Nokia content catalog available on a variety of Nokia handsets shipping this year and next. With the mywaves application, Nokia phone owners will be able to easily find and watch their favorite videos from around the globe, set up their own channels and be entertained on the go with the latest videos on the web.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071217/AQM025 )
"We are thrilled to extend our distribution partnership with Download!, to introduce mywaves to consumers-on-the-go from all around the globe," said Rajeev Raman, CEO of mywaves. "Industry experts expect there to be around 200 million Download!-enabled devices worldwide over the next 12 months -- and all of those phone owners will have seamless mywaves access directly from their multimedia Symbian phones."
The inclusion of mywaves in Download! follows the recent addition of the mywaves channel in the Nokia Video Center, a promotional area featuring top videos from the Web.
Multimedia handsets will be a popular gift idea for the holiday season as consumers are eager to have an array of multimedia features and Internet video capabilities at their fingertips. Worldwide consumer adoption of mobile video continues to grow, with my mywaves' free service attracting more than 4.5 million unique visitors per month. Nokia handsets with access to mywaves deliver the best of both worlds to mobile consumers: best of breed multimedia phones with the broadest array of free videos to watch on the go.
Nokia offers a range of high performance multimedia mobile phones that combine the latest technologies with stylish design and ease of use. With Nokia products, consumers can use a single device to enjoy entertainment, access information and to capture and share pictures and videos, on the go at any time.
About mywaves Inc.
mywaves is the fastest-growing mobile video destination for consumers, attracting over 4.5 million unique visitors monthly to its free mobile video service. Consumers can browse through nearly 400,000 channels of premium, private and user-generated videos and have their favorites automatically updated and delivered to their phones. Most users tune in to watch mywaves video weekly with average viewing times of 24 minutes per session. The service works globally across all 3G, EDGE, BREW and EV-DO carriers as well as most video-capable mobile phones, including Palm, Windows Mobile, Symbian and RIM based phones. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, mywaves is led by a team from Yahoo!, Napster, Danger, Palm and TiVo. The company is funded by venture capital firm, Menlo Ventures. For more information or to sign up for mywaves, go to http://www.mywaves.com or from a mobile browser: http://www.mywaves.com/m.
Web site: http://www.mywaves.com http://www.mywaves.com/m
Erica Jostedt of SutherlandGold Group, +1-415-934-9600, mywaves@sutherlandgold.com, for mywaves. Photo: NewsCom: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071217/AQM025 , PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.com
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