Mobile Services Showcased by Nokia and Symbian Developers at the 2003 Forum Nokia Media & Music Market
Last week in Paris, France more than 2 dozen Symbian developers showed off some exciting and compelling new applications to carrier representatives and industry executives. (By Glenn Letham, Nov. 24, 2003)
The 60 second developer pitch!
A highlight of the one-day event was the "60 second developer pitch". A great idea, designed to give each developer an equal opportunity to sell his/her application or service. The objective was to make an interesting pitch and stimulate enough interest that would result in one-on-one meetings and networking.
SymbianOne heard all the presentations and even met one-on-one with every developer to get a first-hand look at the latest multi-media apps that are coming to market.123MULTIMEDIA – a leading European mobile content provider, the company develops, integrates, and hosts mobile services. The company is making available a number of multi-media products and data services including ring tones, logos, chat, games, catalogs, and e-cards… the company’s latest product launch is “The Magic Clock” - See www.123multimedia.com
Acotel, founded in 1992, provides multimedia platforms and applications to network operators. The group combines their own and third-party content to a variety of messaging platforms including MMSC, SMSC, and WAP gateway. The company was pitching compelling, themed product suites and MMS content services. Themed content bundles offer news, clips, multi-media, and wallpaper as an example. The company also promotes the offering of real-time alerts, pay-per-view content, and album reviews to mobile device users. See www.acotel.com
Arcsoft Europe, developer of Arcsoft’s PhotoBase Mobile Edition, was there promoting a couple of new, compelling features now available. The application which brings photo enhancement, file management, and sharing now is even more “slick” with the introduction of a red eye removal capability, and a very cool image stitching app. Think of this… users of camera-enabled mobile devices can now click off several images to create a panoramic mosaic. Use this application to stitch the scenes together and create a 360 degree scene! See www.arcsoft.com
Colibria AS has been a provider of instant messaging and chat solutions since 2001. The company is offering users an OMA IMPS compliant server solutions useful for innovative and interactive activities like mobile voting, mobile chat sessions, and even a friend finder service (with a map interface) See www.colibria.com
Chaoticom reps were showing off the Chaoticom mobile music solution – music content licensed for mobile operators. MicroKOZm music player functions on Symbian OS- based devices enabling users to search a DB of hits while securely streaming music to the mobile device over a gSM/GPRS network. See www.chaoticom.com
conVISUAL AG… aka the MMS Company was announcing their visual text services which enable users to add pictures, video enhancements to their multi-media apps. Under the category of “new” , the company announced they now are capable of sending MMS to TV format. Of particular interest is MMS TV Chat, each user of an MMS device can become a TV-star! See www.convisual.com
Eurofun offers mobile entertainment to users around the Globe. Representatives were boasting about the extensive portfolio of music products, “super” ringtones, downloadable video clips, and even karaoke. See www.eurofun.co.il
Kamera is involved in image production, syndication, and the distribution of video content for the wired and wireless web. The company offers access to content like news, fashion, entertainment updates, sports scores, music, etc… Custom feeds are always time sensitive. The company has 25 employees in Sweden and UK. See www.kamera.com
IMAGEFUN reps were having fun announcing fotoTXT. This application enables users to send a fun message via email or to a mobile. Using any mobile phone, just create an ordinary text message (SMS) with your own words and they'll add them to a bubble. What do users pay for such a service? Cost: £1.50 plus SMS charges - See www.fototxt.com
Minick Group has one of my personal favorite applications… MMS Postcard. Imagine using your camera-enabled mobile device to capture a scene. The company’s service then processes the MMS delivered scene and delivers it to the requested recipient as a traditional postcard. The company currently handles about 5-6000 requests per day for 4 major operators at an Avg price of 2-3 euro. The MINICK Mobile Application Suite consists of a complete set of powerful and proven mobile application modules, covering a wide range of entertainment and direct marketing needs with powerful info services, voting, chat, mobile commerce and games See www.minick.net/mms2postcard.html
Mobicus Ltd. Is targeting the mobile marketing crowd by offering marketing people a chance to build comprehensive mobile user profiles. According to company reps, the advanced personalization features of Mobicus give marketers the benefit of tailoring their message according to the user and usage situation (time, place, history of usage, or any other variable). This solution is ideal for companies seeking a solution to develop a mobile “loyalty” card solution. See www.mobicus.com
Musicbrigade is a digital content distributor and aggregator of music videos… think of them as a “digital music distributor”. Their “jukebox” contains more than 5000 music videos. The company’s solution offers downloadable, compressed, digitized music for streaming and download. The company prides itself as being “the home of music videos”. See www.musicbrigade.com
Net-mobile AG, another mobile entertainment company provides integrated Multi- Channel-Communication made up of added value data services such as SMS, WAP, MMS and i -mode, speech applications, Internet and a multitude of micropayment solutions. Services include LiveChat and Televoting. The company’s Mobile Karaoke is a very cool app that offers users a chance to sing along with their favorite tune while the lyrics are boldly displayed. Full length MIDI downloads are offered with an integrated automated payment system. See www.net-m.de
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