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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Nokia Leads Mobile Internet Innovation
Beijing, China - Nokia introduced two mobile Internet services serving
Chinese consumers -WidSets, China's first mobile Internet service to
empower mobile phones with Web 2.0 services; and Mobiledu, China's first
interative mobile learning service. Both services will greatly enhance
consumers' mobile Internet experience, by providing users with rich,
versertile, and personalized content for their mobile devices.
"The rapid development of mobile Internet has made possible new
applications and services, and has created unprecedented market
opportunities. By integrating Internet capabilities into mobile handsets,
Nokia has created new business models with partners. The newly launched
services allow users to efficiently manage, organize, and utilize
Internet content and services in their daily lives," said Mr. Dieter
May, Vice President and Head of Nokia Emerging Business Unit.
WidSets - Bringing online communities and personalized Internet to
mobile phones
The WidSets was identified and nurtured by the Nokia Emerging Business
Unit. Launched last October, the WidSets is an innovative mobile Internet
service platform and represents the first step in Nokia's vision to
mobilize the Internet. It reached one million registered users
worldwide in May 25 2007.
Now, Chinese consumers can also enjoy the WidSets, and experience the Web
2.0 services on their mobile phones.
Customers can easily download the WidSets software to their mobile phones
for free. The software uses mini-applications called widgets to deliver
real-time Internet content to mobile phones, that enables users to read
news, blogs, e-mails, browse photos, and play games. The comprehensive
library currently offers more than 1500 widgets, making the mobile
Internet experience more organized, personalized, and exciting.
WidSets is a handset manufacturer-independent service that brings the
best bits of the Internet, such as communities, news, blogs, reviews,
and weather reports straight to the mobile phone. It uses widgets to
deliver up to date Internet content to mobile phones and enables the
user to create their own widgets.
"WidSets service is free, and the easiest and most enjoyable way for
mobile phone users to keep in touch with the content, blogs and
communities they love because the service is constantly updated with
feedback from the users," said Mr. Ding Gang, Director, WidSets China
team, Nokia Emerging Business Unit. "Nokia, by driving WidSets, wants to
offer people a growing variety of ways to access and interact with the
web from mobile devices."
Please visit http://cn.widsets.com for more.
Mobiledu - Learning English on the go
The Mobiledu is China's first interactive mobile learning service,
integrating teaching material from a variety of educational
organizations. The Mobiledu fully leverages the capabilities of mobile
Internet, as the program makes interactive learning available anywhere
and anytime with mobile phones.
"As the world leader in mobile communications, Nokia's goal is to
continuously bring new innovative applications to the market," said
Mr. Marko Vänskä, Director of Nokia Emerging Business Unit, China, "We
have seen a big growth potential for mobile learning market in China. By
working together with local partners along the ecosystem, Nokia strives
to enrich the consumers' learning experiences any time any where in a
most convenient way with their mobile phones."
Mobiledu advocates the concept of "Studying Together", and provides rich
text, graphics, and audio content. The new service creates a unique real
time, interactive platform for studying.It enables users to lead more
efficient and fulfilling lives, as users can study at any time or any
place. Furthermore, users can access the online Mobiledu Community to
obtain the latest learning content updates and, enjoy the mobile learning
experiences out of the classroom from renowned teachers in China.
Mobiledu is courseware-based learning service which better caters to the
learning habits of consumers. The program is supported and endorsed by
various reputable education providers, including Foreign Language
Teaching and Research Press, New Oriental Education, Dell English, 21st
Century, and Trends Group. The Mobiledu program covers the highly
demanded TOEFL and GRE vocabulary, provides practice exams, and includes
trendy cultural content on subjects such as fashion, cosmetics, sports,
and health.
Mobiledu targets to support most Nokia Series 40 and S60 platform based
mobile phones and all other branded mobile phones that support KJava
applications.
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.
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