Wednesday, April 29, 2009

NOKIA - New Nokia and América Móvil offer revolutionizes Mexico's music world

NOKIA PRESS RELEASE April 30, 2009

New Nokia and América Móvil offer revolutionizes Mexico's music world

Nokia 5800 Comes With Music exclusively with América Móvil to hit the Mexican market on May 1st
 
Telcel's users will be able to download their favorite tracks to the phone for a full year
 
Well-known independent record labels, editors and other music agents have joined the project
 
Mexico, D.F. - Nokia and América Móvil, through its Telcel subsidiary, today announced they will be offering the breakthrough 5800 Comes With Music concept to the Mexican market. The 5800 Comes With Music is the industry's most comprehensive, powerful and exciting digital music offer, combining the Comes With Music service and the highly innovative Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia's first touch-screen device.
 
5800 Comes With Music will be commercially available on May 1st through Telcel, the leading wireless services provider in México. Consumers getting the solution either through Telcel's Authorized Customer Centers or through its Authorized Distributors, will be able to take advantage of the largest voice and data network coverage in the country, plus best prices and value added services in the market.  It will also be available at Nokia's flagship store located at the Antara Shopping Mall and Nokia's Online Store www.nokia.com.mx/shop.
 
The 5800 Comes With Music service offers consumers a new way of discovering and enjoying music from the mobile device or PC. Consumers accessing Comes with Music through their Nokia 5800 XpressMusic device will be able to navigate and enjoy a wide-ranging music catalog of tracks from local and international artists for a year without worrying about track cost and without experiencing access restrictions to millions of tracks available from Nokia Music Store, the new digital music store in Mexico. In addition, they will be able to keep their music on the mobile device or PC once the subscription is over. This service revolutionizes the digital music experience known thus far.
 
"The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic has already sold 3 million devices worldwide, now Mexican consumers will be able to get hold of the 5800 Comes With Music," said Francisco Lorenzo, Nokia Mexico Director. "Users can simply find and discover all the music they want, without worrying about the price of each album or track. Simplicity and freedom of use are two of the leading features of this service, but most revolutionary of all is that users get to keep all their favorite music in their PC or Nokia device without worrying about the cost of each track," he said.
 
This breakthrough concept succeeded in uniting all known music labels, including EMI, Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, among others, in addition to independent music companies and other music agents.
 
"Today's needs for communication are greater, that's why Telcel is always looking at offering the best devices like the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, a phone that will provide our users with a new way of experiencing the music in a mobile phone", said Patricia Hevia, Operations Director of Telcel's Region 9. "The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic takes advantage of Telcel's 3G network, which today covers 149 cities and thousands of villages", she continued.
 
Telcel, aiming to foster the use of mobile Internet, and with the introduction of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic to the Mexican market, offers competitive rates, appropriate to its users. This way, it promotes and facilitates the mobile experience, while users can rely on access to affordable prices and services, and benefit to the max from 3G technology applications through Telcel's Unlimited Data Plan backing up the great features that 5800 XpressMusic offers to consumers.
 
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
 
On music-focused devices, consumers demand a high-quality music experience, more memory, powerful speakers, simple synchronization, and mobile functionality with direct access to key content and contacts. The new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic provides all these features, plus simple access to content, regardless of user location.
 
The new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic features a touch-screen technology introducing the "Multimedia Bar," a simple pop-up menu providing direct access to music and entertainment, including songs, videos and pictures. The "Multimedia Bar" also provides a direct link to the Web, as well as to various online information-sharing applications. With the new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic supporting flash content, users will be able to navigate across the Web. Additionally, the new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic delivers basic music essentials, including a graphic equalizer, 8 GB of memory for up to 6,000 tracks, support for all digital music formats and a 3.5 mm jack. The built-in stereo speakers' surround-sound experience makes them the most powerful in the market.
 
With the new "Contacts Bar," users are able to highlight four of their favorite contacts on the home screen. And with a single touch, they can track a recent history of text messages, e-mail, call log, pictures and blog updates.
 
Pictures of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic are available at: http://www.nokia.com/press.
 
About América Móvil (AMX)
AMX is the leading provider of wireless services in Latin America. As of February, 2009, it had over 186.6 million wireless subscribers.
 
About Telcel
Telcel (Radiomóvil Dipsa) operating since 1989, is the leading mobile telephony company in Mexico with more than 56.4 million customers, with the largest service and coverage nation-wide, covering more than 200 thousand locations in the 9 regions of the country, which represent more than 90% of the populated areas in Mexico.  Always ahead, it offers the fastest wireless connectivity nation-wide on data and voice in GSM/GPRS/EDGE and UMTS/HSDPA technologies.
 
About Nokia
Nokia is the world's number one manufacturer of mobile devices by market share and a leader in the converging Internet and communications industries. We make a wide range of devices for all major consumer segments and offer Internet services that enable people to experience music, maps, media, messaging and games. We also provide comprehensive digital map information through NAVTEQ and equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks.
 
 
Media Enquiries:
 
Laura Larrondo
Larrondo DICE
Tel. (52) 55 57 81 13 43
Mobile: (52 1) 55 54 38 98 48
E-mail: larrondl@prodigy.net.mx
 
 
 




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NOKIA N97

New SoLo app Rockets to victory: Nokia N97 widget competition winner announced

April 29, 2009



Monte Carlo, Monaco - David Emmanuel Castro Guerrero from Mexico and Plusmo from the United States were today named one of the hottest software designers and developers in the world having beaten strong competition to win the Nokia N97 Widget Competition. Created to celebrate the much anticipated launch of the Nokia N97, Guerrero's winning application, was Rocket, a social location widget (SoLo) which shows the nearest three friends in any given place was built on-site by the application developer.
Guerrero's victory was announced after a 24-hour Nokia Hackathon event where an elite group of world-class developers raced to build the shortlisted apps live and against the clock. The contest held in association with Forum Nokia's Calling All Innovators competition took place between 28-29 April in Monaco at the Nokia Developer Summit.
Not only does Guerrero win a brand new Nokia N97 pre-loaded with his widget on the home screen, the application will also have prime status on the homepage of the new Ovi Store, which launches soon, and will be free to download for Nokia N97 owners in all Ovi Store launch countries. These include Australia, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Russia, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States.
The Nokia N97, which will begin shipping in June, defines mobile internet personalization. The 3.5 inch touch display with full QWERTY keyboard means friends, social networks and news can be fully customized with frequently updated widgets of favorite web services and social networking sites.
The competition's runners up - Marco Lobb from Italy, who designed the widget, Shoppy, a shopping list application and built on-site by Inova IT from Slovenia and Bruce Hopkins, who designed Travel Planner and built by PavingWays from Germany, will also be featured on the homepage of store.ovi.mobi.
"It's mind-blowing to think that my application could potentially be used by millions of people on their Nokia handsets," commented David Emmanuel Castro Guerrero. "It's been such a great experience to watch these masters at work and see how an app is build from start to finish."
"We received over 1,300 submissions, many of which were exceptional. Pitting the best Forum Nokia developers in the business against each other and watching the apps being built in front of summit delegates was so exciting," said Pekka Pohjakallio, Vice President, Services. "By distributing through Ovi Store by Nokia, developers benefit from Nokia's global scale to provide a potentially lucrative and unrivalled opportunity at reaching a global audience of consumers."
To view all of the submissions and for more information visit www.forum.nokia.com
Notes to editors:
The full list of the ten shortlisted widgets and designers is:
- David Emmanuel Castro Guerrero (Mexico) - Social Location Widget
- Marco Lobb (Italy) - Shopping List Widget
- Bruce Hopkins (USA) - Travel Planner
- Eric Liu (Canada) - Location Based Sightseeing/Events
- Andrew Clarke (UK) - Price Comparison Widget
- Gabriel Hall (Canada) - The World Around Me
- Daniel Kleine-Albers (Germany) - Location Based Public Transport
- Porfirio Busto BenÃtez (Paraguay) - Now On TV!
- Dmytriy Kovbasyuk (Canada) - Fuel-Up!
- Tuba Tig (Turkey) - What Is Your Favourite Food?
About Calling All Innovators
A global developer competition that challenges developers to create applications that will help to better society. There are three categories developers can participate in:
- Internet Innovation - Encouraging web developers to transform consumer-focused ideas into real applications on Nokia devices
- Flash - Expanding the capabilities and user benefits of Flash Lite on Nokia S60 devices
- Emerging Markets - Urging developers to create innovative applications across mobile technology platforms that meet the needs and improve the daily lives of millions living in rural and semi-urban areas worldwide
The total cash and prizes for the 2009 Calling All Innovators contest are worth more than $250,000, in addition to helping the winning developers distribute their mobile applications.
About Forum Nokia
Nokia's global developer program, Forum Nokia connects developers to tools, technical information, support, and distribution channels they can use to build and market applications around the globe. From offices in the U.S., Europe, India, Japan, China, and Singapore, Forum Nokia provides technical and business development support to developers and operators to assist them in achieving their goal of successfully launching applications and services to consumers and enterprises.
About Nokia
Nokia is the world's number one manufacturer of mobile devices by market share and a leader in the converging Internet and communications industries. We make a wide range of devices for all major consumer segments and offer Internet services that enable people to experience music, maps, media, messaging and games. We also provide comprehensive digital map information through NAVTEQ and equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks.

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