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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Cingular Expands Multimedia Messaging (MMS) Offering with Kodak
ATLANTA and ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov. 12 -- Cingular Wireless, the second largest wireless carrier in the nation, and Eastman Kodak Company, today announced that Kodak will make the new Kodak Mobile Service available to Cingular customers. Kodak Mobile Service gives Cingular customers the ability to store, organize and share their digital pictures and mobile-captured video on the go.
"As the popularity of photo messaging, MMS and camera phones continues to grow, wireless customers will look for services such as Kodak Mobile to store unlimited mobile photos, create photo albums and share their life in pictures on the go," said Jim Ryan, Vice President Marketing, Cingular Wireless. "We are very excited to offer our customers the new Kodak Mobile Service, giving them yet another way to enhance the capabilities of their camera phones and MMS service."
Early last month, Cingular launched its MMS service, which allows customers to create "living" messages on their phones by combining a series of photos, video, graphics, voice, sounds and text. Customers can then send their personalized messages to virtually any e-mail address or mobile phone. Similar to digital cameras, camera-phones have limited storage capacity, requiring users to delete or move photos in order to make room for more. Now with Kodak Mobile Service, Cingular MMS subscribers can transfer these photos directly from their phone to their Kodak Mobile Service account by sending a MMS message to save@kmobile.com. Once images are saved online, consumers can use the Kodak Mobile Service to view, organize, and share all of their digital photos or mobile-captured video via their handset or PC. Customers also can order prints of any of their digital pictures directly from their Kodak Mobile Service-enabled handset and have their pictures delivered directly to their door.
"Kodak is pleased to help Cingular customers easily enhance the value and convenience of photo messaging and MMS services," said Lisa Gansky, president of Ofoto, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Eastman Kodak Company. "Kodak has led innovation in the imaging industry for more than a century and we intend to be at the forefront of the mobile imaging market thanks to agreements like the one announced today with Cingular."
Kodak Mobile Service is available to Cingular Wireless customers who have a camera-phone and MMS service. To celebrate the launch, Cingular customers will receive 90 days of Kodak Mobile Service free if they sign up before January 31, 2004. The regular monthly charge is just $2.99, which is added directly to a customer's wireless bill.
To sign up for Kodak Mobile Service or to learn more about Cingular's other MMS-related services, visit www.cingular.com/mms .
About Eastman Kodak Company and infoimaging
Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, print and view images - for memories, for information, for entertainment. The company is a major participant in info-imaging, a $385 billion industry composed of devices (digital cameras and flat-panel displays), infrastructure (online networks and delivery systems for images) and services & media (software, film and paper enabling people to access, analyze and print images). With sales of $12.8 billion in 2002, the company comprises several businesses: Health, supplying the healthcare industry with traditional and digital image capture and output products and services; Commercial Printing, offering on-demand color printing and networking publishing systems; Commercial Imaging, offering image capture, output and storage products and services to businesses and government; Display & Components, which designs and manufactures state-of-the- art organic light-emitting diode displays as well as other specialty materials, and delivers optics and imaging sensors to original equipment manufacturers; and Digital & Film Imaging Systems, providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services.
About Cingular Wireless
Cingular Wireless, a joint venture between SBC Communications (NYSE: SBC - News) and BellSouth (NYSE: BLS - News), serves more than 24 million voice and data customers across the United States. A leader in mobile voice and data communications, Cingular is the only U.S. wireless carrier to offer Rollover, the wireless plan that lets customers keep their unused monthly minutes. Cingular provides cellular/PCS service in 43 of the top 50 markets nationwide, and provides corporate e-mail and other advanced data services through its GPRS and Mobitex packet data networks. Details of the company are available at www.cingular.com .
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