Nokia To Ship RealPlayer With New Phones

Nokia will ship RealAudio, RealVideo and the Helix DNA powered RealPlayer on a wide variety of Nokia mobile devices.

The agreement will help both companies to achieve their mutual goal of enabling robust media functionality on mass-market mobile devices. In addition, the two companies today announced that Nokia has joined the Helix Community (www.helixcommunity.org).

“The new licensing and development model with Real fully supports Nokia’s multi-format strategy and our commitment to respond to our customers’ needs with best-in-breed solutions, such as RealAudio and RealVideo,” said Antti Vasara, Vice President, Mobile Software Sales and Marketing, Nokia. “Today, the successful collaboration between Nokia and Real has resulted in the delivery of over 20 unique handset models based on Series 60 and Symbian operating system with RealPlayer capability, to millions of consumers worldwide”.