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Mobile World Congress 2009, Barcelona, Spain and Espoo, Finland -
Nokia 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.
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.
For more information about T-Mobile International, please visit
www.telekom.com
Media Enquiries:
Nokia
Communications
Tel. +358 7180 34900
Email: press.services@nokia.com
www.nokia.com
Deutsche Telekom AG
Corporate Communications
T-Mobile
Tel.: +49 (0) 228 / 9 36-3 17 17
Fax: +49 (0) 228 / 9 36-3 17 19
E-Mail: presse.t-mobile@telekom.de
www.telekom.com/presse
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