The mobile gaming market is going strong, and the new 3rd Edition devices bring added media capabilities to the mix. Here are examples of how Forum Nokia PRO has helped developers to bring their products to this global market.
From the leading Flash games developer in India:
"Forum Nokia PRO has helped us to secure many distribution relationships with carrier and independent software channels. Networking at Nokia events has proved to be extremely valuable to us."
- Vishal Gondal, CEO, Indiagames
From the leading media services developer in Latin America:
"Nokia has given us the holy grail for emerging developers—the ability to talk to carriers one-on-one. Nokia’s help has been essential in closing a number of deals for us."
- Policarpo Guerrero, President and CEO, Mobile Services Corporation.
| Beijing Genesis Interactive Technologies, Co. Ltd (Mogenesis) |
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|  | Mogenesis CaraOK turns an S60 3rd Edition device into a full-fledged karaoke machine. It allows the user to download audio tracks and sing along while the words appear on the S60 device display. Beijing Genesis Interactive Technologies, Co. Ltd (Mogenesis) (PDF file, 416 KB) |
| SHAPE Services, GmbH |
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|  | The Mobiola product line of SHAPE Services GmbH, with its Mobiola Web Camera 3 and its Mobiola Video Studio, has helped to transform S60 devices from the video platform of the future to the video platform of today. SHAPE Services, GmbH (PDF file, 540 KB) |
| mywaves, inc. |
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|  | By combining premium branded content with outreach to the under-25 year old market segment, mywaves has become one of the largest mobile entertainment destinations in the world. mywaves, inc. (PDF file, 325 KB) |
| Ten23 Software, Inc. |
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|  | SpotJots was the Grand Prize winner of the Navteq Global LBS Challenge—Americas in April 2008. The application combines LBS and multimedia services, allowing users to post and exchange geo-tagged photos, videos, and text on S60 3rd Edition devices. Ten23 Software, Inc. (PDF file, 241 KB) |
| Lancaster University |
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|  | Lancaster University has been pushing the envelope of mobile application development. With the help of Forum Nokia’s University program, a research group that calls itself the Mobile Radicals have been finding new ways to combine location-based services (LBS) and social networking. Lancaster University (PDF file, 321 KB) |
| Nokia MOSH |
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|  | Nokia MOSH is a user-driven distribution channel for mobile content and applications. It allows users to create, upload, and share images, audio, video, applications and games with the whole world. It also allows specialized searches to help users to quickly find the types of content they seek. This article profiles four of the top MOSH contributors that have achieved the designation of MOSH Heroes. Nokia MOSH (HTML) |
| i2 tecnologia |
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|  | Supermodel Anina and Brazil’s i2 tecnologia teamed up to create Anina Dress Up, a fashion-memory game created using Flash Lite from Adobe. It is available for S60 3rd Edition and S40 devices. i2 tecnologia (PDF file, 271 KB) |
| Sling Media, Inc. |
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|  | SlingPlayer Mobile brings the consumer’s home TV onto the S60 3rd Edition device screen. Users can now location-shift as well as time-shift their TV viewing experience. Sling Media, Inc. (PDF file, 563 KB) |
| Moket |
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|  | Moket has created a wide variety of applications using Flash Lite technology from Adobe, including an interactive application that uses screen savers to help users to save energy and battery life on S60 3rd Edition devices. Moket (PDF file, 426 KB) |
| CELL Co Ltd. |
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|  | CELL Co Ltd delivers to S60 consumers a catalog of more than 600 games based upon Flash Lite technology from Adobe. More than 1 million games per day are currently downloaded from its site. CELL Co Ltd. (PDF file, 276 KB) |
| Nanyang Polytechnic |
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|  | Nanyang Polytechnic participated in the Nokia Mobile Widgets Challenge 2007, and produced four of the top widgets for S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 devices with Web Run Time. This case details the widgets and the student developers’ experience in creating the widgets for the S60 platform. Nanyang Polytechnic (PDF file, 595 KB) |
| Plusmo, Inc. |
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|  | Plusmo offers an extensive gallery of widgets that run on S60 3rd Edition devices with Web Run Time (WRT) capabilities. These include widgets for tailored information on many sports as well as many utility widgets. The gallery also includes widgets that developers can set into their web page blogs to make them accessible to S60 devices. Plusmo, Inc. (PDF file, 378 KB) |
| mBit Pte Ltd |
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|  | The mBit network enables peer-to-peer sharing of multimedia files among users in the Asia-Pacific region. Intellectual property rights of branded content are preserved, and users can choose to send their own content to individuals, selected groups, or the social network at large. mBit Pte Ltd (PDF file, 559 KB) |
| Juice Wireless, Inc. |
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|  | JuiceCaster enables consumers to send videos, pictures and other media to friends in near real time, using popular destinations like Facebook, MySpace, Blogger, Google Pages, Flickr and other channels. The social networking site has undergone pilot project testing in the U.S., and is now rolling out in Europe and other regions. Juice Wireless, Inc. (PDF file, 639 KB) |
| Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. |
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|  | Spider-Man™ 3, the movie, has crawled onto your Nokia N95 8GB device! The ultimate convergence of content and mobility has arrived. Movies--full length movies, not just trailers or spots--can now be made resident on the new Nokia 95 8GB multimedia computer. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. (PDF file, 853 KB) |
| Digital Chocolate, Inc. |
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|  | Digital Chocolate creates original mobile games geared around themes of social interaction. Its DChoc Café series, now available for S60 3rd Edition devices, lets users create their own avatar-based personae which they can use to participate in the games. Digital Chocolate, Inc. (PDF file, 655 KB) |
| Wipro Ltd. |
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|  | Wipro Ltd., one of the largest independent R&D services providers, ported a Universal Plug N Play stack to the S60 3rd Edition platform using the Open C plug-in. This enabled the company’s multimedia slide show application to control a variety of playback devices from the S60 device. Wipro Ltd. (PDF file, 451 KB) |
| Sam Click Ltd. |
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|  | Sam Click Ltd. has used the Nokia Content Discoverer to deploy its Magik Mobil catalog in Thailand. The Magik Mobil catalog now provides a one-stop shopping experience for all of the mobile consumer’s needs for branded content, games, music, videos, wallpapers, and more. Sam Click Ltd. Success Case (PDF file, 465KB) |  |  | |
| iGuanaMobile Sdn Bhd |
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|  | iGuanaMobile has implemented its entire catalog on Nokia Content Discoverer. iGuanaMobile is one of the largest content aggregators in the southeast Asia region, serving localized in Indonesia, Singapore, and Malayasia. There are different catalogs for each country, each with localized content. iGuanaMobile Sdn Bhd (PDF file, 440KB) |  |  | |
| Zing Magic Ltd. |
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|  | Zing Magic’s AI applications like Chess Professional are supercharged with the new processors now available on S60 3rd Edition devices. This article gives the developer’s perspective of the effect of the new processors on application performance. Zing Magic Ltd. Success Case (PDF file, 676KB) |  |  | |
| AWS Convergence Technologies' WeatherBug |
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|  | Thanks to Nokia's new Web Run-Time application development environment, the developers of WeatherBug ported the widget to the S60 platform in just five days, with few code changes. Find out how they did it. AWS Convergence Technologies' WeatherBug Success Case (PDF file, 48KB) |  |  | |
| Reuters, Ltd. |
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|  | Reuters brings a world of news and pictures to Nokia Eseries devices through a robust client application that uses Flash Lite technology from Adobe. Reuters, Ltd. Success Case (PDF file, 1,8MB) |  |  | |
| SonyNetServices GmbH |
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|  | Sony NetServices StreamMan audio streaming service has emerged in Europe as the Vodafone Radio DJ. This innovative music service allows users with S60 3rd Edition device and a 3G network connection to hear music from predefined channels, music collection channels, and their own personalized channels. Personalized music can be selected via a unique “like/dislike” choice mechanism. Sony NetServices Success Case (PDF file, 5,64Kb) |  |  | |
| Tencent Corp. |
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|  | Instant messaging company Tencent Corp. now hosts more than 200 million active users in China every month. The company is expanding to mobile blogging and 3G, paying particular attention to S60 3rd Edition devices. Tencent Corp. Success Case (PDF file, 464 Kb) |  |  | |
| ASGATech |
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|  | ASGATech is expanding the field for mobile applications in the Islamic world. The company has created products tailored to Muslim needs, including an Islamic Organizer for personal productivity, and games of an educational variety that are based upon one’s knowledge of Islamic information. ASGATech Success Case (PDF file, 683 KB) |  |  | |