New partner apps available first and exclusively on Nokia Lumia smartphones

jasonblack | 10 January, 2012 18:15

At the 2012 International CES, in Las Vegas, Nokia announced new mobile applications from CNN, Univision, ESPN, and Sesame Workshop that will be available first and exclusively on Nokia Lumia smartphones. The partnerships with these companies will bring new apps from some of the world’s biggest brands exclusively to Nokia consumers before the apps are made available to other Microsoft Windows Phone consumers through Microsoft Windows Phone Marketplace.  

Here are just a few details about the apps from the four content partners:

  • ESPN Sports Hub will be preloaded on Nokia Lumia smartphones and will serve as a one-stop app for sports news, videos, and scores.  
  • The CNN app will provide the latest news and video from CNN’s reporting around the globe plus direct access to iReport, CNN’s participatory news community. The app, which will launch globally for free in the next month, will be exclusive to Nokia users for 90 days.
  • The Univision App will be exclusive to Nokia Lumia users in the U.S. and Puerto Rico for 18 months, delivering unique and exclusive Spanish-language content experiences, including Univision entertainment; soccer and other sports coverage; and news, cooking, and local content for various U.S. markets. 
  • The exclusive Sesame Workshop app, 100th Day of School, builds on a three-year collaboration between Nokia, Sesame Workshop, and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. There are also three additional titles: Big Block Party, Color Carnival and Abby in Wonderland. Each title has familiar Sesame Street characters including Elmo and Grover, and these titles will be exclusive to Nokia consumers globally for a minimum of six months.

Additionally, a partnership with Electronic Arts (EA) to bring more than 25 of the world’s most popular mobile games to Windows Phone Marketplace will come first to Nokia Lumia phones.

‘With exclusive apps from some of the world’s leading global and most locally relevant brands, we are focused on making Nokia Lumia an outstanding smartphone experience for consumers’, says Marco Argenti, senior vice president of Developer Experience and Marketplace at Nokia. ‘We are collaborating with our partners to build and deliver first and exclusively on Nokia app experiences across key categories including news, sports, games, multicultural, and kids and family, all of which are unique, fresh and fun.’

Univision’s latest mobile-app-development success story, in partnership with Nokia and Microsoft Windows Phone

As the Nokia Lumia market-share footprint increases globally, Nokia is proud to deliver unique and exclusive app experiences via applications developed by Nokia and as a result of agreements with some of the world’s biggest names in consumer content. In addition to the Nokia Lumia phones’ iconic hardware design, this exclusive content and other Nokia-only content — such as Nokia Drive — provide users with an enhanced smartphone experience.

The Nokia-exclusivity periods will vary by content provider.

Windows Phone ecosystem growing rapidly

In addition to the forthcoming exclusive content for Nokia Lumia smartphones, the momentum behind the Windows Phone ecosystem continues to grow rapidly. Windows Phone Marketplace now has 50,000 apps and more than 80,000 developers have now registered with the Microsoft App Hub. More than 3 million developer tools have now been downloaded.

The number of apps submitted each day to Marketplace (currently 300 new titles a day) is about three times greater than it was before the Nokia-Microsoft partnership announcement last year.

In other Nokia Lumia news, Nokia confirmed today that the Nokia Lumia 710 smartphone, announced for T-Mobile’s network in December 2011, will become available tomorrow for order on the T-Mobile website; at the U.S. T-Mobile retail stores and authorised retail stores; and at U.S. Costco, Target, and Walmart locations.

As for the Nokia Lumia 800 phone, it will be made available online, including Microsoft Stores, in three striking colours (cyan, magenta, and matte black) as a bundle with the Nokia Play 360° speaker and a Nokia Purity by Monster headset. This unique bundle will become available online in early February.

Learn more about developing for Nokia Lumia smartphones.

(Update: 10 January 2012): If you are attending CES this week, make time to drop by the Nokia booth (#31409, South Hall) and have a look at app demos from the following partners:

  • CNN
  • ESPN
  • Groupon
  • Weather Channel
  • Univision 
  • LYNC
  • Evernote
  • Spotify
  • Facebook
  • Slacker
  • Netflix
  • Plants vs. Zombies (PopCap)

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New Nokia Lumia 900 smartphone is designed with U.S. in mind

jasonblack | 10 January, 2012 01:45

Nokia's newest smartphone, running Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5, is the biggest and fastest yet and it will be available exclusively through AT&T in the coming months.

With support of AT&T's 4G LTE (Long-Term Evolution) network, the Nokia Lumia 900 smartphone will offer high-performance web browsing with Microsoft Internet Explorer Mobile, as well as video and audio streaming. The phone has a long-lasting (1830 mAh) battery for enjoying content all day long. At the same time, with Nokia’s App Highlights to recommend key applications to Nokia Lumia 900 users, content discovery on this smartphone will be easier than ever before.

The Nokia Lumia 900 smartphone features a large, 4.3-inch AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) ClearBlack Display that provides a superior viewing and touch experience on a phone that still fits easily in your hand. It also includes the exclusive Nokia Maps and Nokia Drive applications with free, voice-guided, turn-by-turn navigation and a dedicated in-car user interface.

The phone’s main camera includes exclusive Carl Zeiss optics, with a large aperture (f/2.2) and a 28mm wide-angle focal length for high-quality, uncropped images even in low-light conditions. The Nokia Lumia 900 smartphone also includes a front-facing camera with a large aperture and a wide-angle focal length that ensure sharp, bright images for high-quality video calling, right out of the box.

With thousands of additional apps arriving every week, Microsoft Windows Marketplace has grown to more than 50,000 apps in less than 15 months. Windows Phone apps are safe, reliable, and — thanks to unique platform features and Metro UI design — behave smarter than similar apps on other platforms … all on great Nokia smartphones.  

Like the other Nokia Lumia phones, the Nokia Lumia 900 smartphone includes a head-turning design in bright cyan and stealthy matte black. This phone also includes Live Tiles, delivering real-time updates straight to the Home screen, and the People hub, making it easy to keep in touch with the people that matter most.

In other Nokia Lumia news, the launches of the Nokia Lumia 710 phone with Rogers Communications and the Nokia Lumia 800 phone with TELUS Communications Company will bring the Nokia Lumia experience to Canada.

Check out the complete specifications for the Nokia Lumia 900 smartphone.

Update (10 Jan. 2012): Watch Nokia's press conference held at CES 2012 in Las Vegas, where Nokia CEO Stephen Elop introduced the Nokia Lumia 900 smartphone:

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