Live audio broadcasts, real time scoring and streaming video highlights now available for select Nokia devices
NEW YORK and IRVING, Texas - While the smell of hot dogs and fresh-cut grass may be absent, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) wireless phone users can now experience all of the excitement of Major League Baseball right from their mobile phone. With the signing of an agreement with MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM), the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball, baseball is the most recent content added to the Nokia Sports application, which delivers the US's widest selection of mobile multimedia sports information to date. Along with real-time scoring and statistics, subscribers to the service can receive from MLB.com, the official league website, live audio broadcasts of every game - with the choice of the home or away team's broadcast - daily video highlight packages, game images, league news, current standings and more.
Now available for owners of the Nokia 6600 imaging and soon to be available for the Nokia 6620 imaging phone and a compatible data plan, the Nokia Sports application can be downloaded over the air for free from www.nokiausa.com. Once downloaded, users can enjoy a free trial (data charges still apply) that includes full access to all available Major League Baseball content. After the trial period has expired, users can subscribe to the service for $7.99 per month which appears on the subscribers' wireless statement.
"By working with Nokia to make Major League Baseball content available to more wireless customers, we are renewing our commitment to using the best available technology to deliver great baseball content to fans everywhere," said George Kliavkoff, senior vice president of business development for MLBAM "Nokia's baseball application is a breakthrough, because it represents the first time that the video highlights, live audiocasts, updated league standings, statistics, news stories, game photos, and real-time scoring currently being enjoyed by tens of millions of customers at mlb.com will be available on a wireless phone. This means that today's busy fans can stay in touch with the game they love - no matter where their schedules take them."
The Nokia Sports application is enabled by new high-speed wireless networks and increasingly sophisticated mobile devices. In this case, packet-data enabled GPRS or EDGE networks and the Symbian OS-based Nokia 6600 and Nokia 6620 imaging phones.
"By helping to bring Major League Baseball content to mobile users, Nokia is continuing to build on the promise of today's wireless technology. Sports represent an important part of many people's lives, and the Nokia Sports application is a perfect example of how Nokia is taking life mobile," said Nigel Rundstrom, vice president of Multimedia sales and channel development for Nokia. "Wireless technology is already allowing people to instantly send pictures across the country, play games with friends between continents and stay connected to the office around the world. This application is yet another demonstration of how mobility is changing the manner in which people work and play."
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