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Written by PseudoFinn

Monday, 22 October 2007 14:23

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Mywaves, based in Sunnyvale, California announced the availibility of their video content in the Nokia Video Center today. They join with global content brands such as Reuters, CNN and Sony Pictures to deliver free high-quality mobile videos to Nseries devices owners around the world.

Millions of consumers across the planet will now have access to a selection of over 200,000 channels via the Video Center application. Through the Video Center, mywaves will provide personalized access to TV and video-on-demand services on Nseries devices via cellular and WiFi connections.

"Our addition to the Nokia Video Center lineup provides streamlined distribution into Nokia's strong global market share, giving mobile consumers yet another way to access our compelling video entertainment while delivering even higher visibility and reach to our advertisers," said Rajeev Raman, CEO, mywaves.

The Nokia Video Center offers Nokia Nseries users one simple place to discover and access the best choice of mobile video content via 3G, WiFi or PC. Users can switch easily between a range of different video services choosing from branded on-demand video, internet video podcasts and their own favorite videos. The Nokia Video Center is available on the Nokia N95 and Nokia N95 8GB.

Other partners recently announced this month and their services:

CNN - Provides comprehensive international news coverage, as well as business, sports and entertainment updates from around the world.*

IBN News - Download the latest news and features to your phone from the leading English news channel in India.**

Jamba - offers free videos from three categories, music videos, cartoons and fun.

Sony Pictures - Inside Sony Pictures is your free all-access pass to trailers and added value content for current and upcoming movies, TV, games and more from Sony Pictures Entertainment.

RooftopComedy - Stand-up and sketch comedy clips from around the world.

ROK, FreeBeTV - Celebrity TV, Sports, Classic Commercials and Fun Little Movies.

Versaly Entertainment, FAST LANE - The premier mobile video channel for the male lifestyle: through its video business unit Vmbc.tv, programming includes intense action sports, hilarious comedy, full contact fighting, the best mobile user-generated content, and much more!

"The new partnerships expand the scope of quality mobile videos available to Nseries device owners. The new content ranges from movies, trailers and comedy to more informative videos such as international news." said Harri Männistö, Director, Multimedia, Nokia. "Consumer desire to watch internet videos on mobile devices is growing all the time and we want to help users discover and access the best content in the simplest way possible."

Sounds like Nokia is starting to make a go at the Video Center application- which is nice, and lends even more credence to the enlarged screen of the N95 8GB- now if only AT&T would get on the ball and get to rolling out that 3G network in my neck of the woods. Of course, I'd still have to debate between the bigger screen of the N95 8GB and the US 3G frequency of the N95-3... Nah! It's no debate- I want 3G to take advantage of all the additions to the Video Center and the newly minted Slingplayer for S60 when I'm on the go.

...Or maybe Nokia can just get on with it and release a 4+ inch VGA screen device with global 3G frequencies...? Hey- I can dream, right? By the way, that dream includes 720p video recording and a mini HDMI output!

About mywaves Inc.
    mywaves is the fastest-growing mobile video destination for consumers,
attracting millions of daily mobile page views for its free mobile video
service. Consumers can browse through nearly 200,000 channels of premium,
private and user-generated videos and have their favorites automatically
updated and delivered to their phones. The service works globally across
all 3G, EDGE, BREW and EV-DO carriers as well as most video-capable mobile
phones. mywaves provides advertisers and content owners an entirely new
level of reach and engagement with the mobile consumer. Most users tune in
to watch mywaves video weekly with average viewing times of 20 minutes per
session. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, mywaves is led by a team from
Yahoo, Napster, Danger, Palm and TiVo. The company is funded by venture
capital firm, Menlo Ventures. For more information or to sign up for
mywaves, go to http://www.mywaves.com or from a mobile browser:
http://www.mywaves.com/m.

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written by Anthony, October 30, 2007

mywaves is great - I wouldn't have known about TED Talks if it wasn't for it. The only trouble is the 3gp encoding doesn't do justice to Nseries phones.

Shameless plug: http://freshplastic.vox.com/ I haven't done a review of mywaves yet, but will soon. One other thing, N73 doesn't have Video Center which is a shame - I'm sure the phone is capable of it.

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written by PseudoFinn, October 30, 2007

Right- definitely looking forward to all the content this is going to bring to the Video Center. And I don't really see why the N73 shouldn't have the Video Center- it's gotta be capable of it, right??

I'll agree that the compression of the videos don't do the device justice- must be because of bandwidth concerns. Just imagine what these apps will be like when we're blanketed in 3G here in the US, and the UK finally offers real data plans! It's a bright future, we just have to wait it out and think about what can/will be.

I dig the blog by the way- nice work on it over there.

Cheers

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