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T-Mobile and Nokia unveiled a new partnership last week,
when they announced their plans to enhance European customers’ mobile Internet
experience by bringing T-Mobile’s web’n’walk Internet services and Nokia’s Ovi
Internet services on a wide range of mobile phones, the two companies said in
an official statement.
As everything seems to be “on the go” these days, T-Mobile
and Nokia come to support this trend by providing a richer user experience on
mobile devices, including access to music, games or personal social community
services. The deal will include T-Mobile’s MyFaves service, launched in October
2007 across Europe.
Nokia promised to customize its devices in order to maximize
the services provided by T-Mobile. A first step of such a collaboration was
first taken in March this year, when the two companies unveiled the exclusive
Nokia 6650 device for T-Mobile which will become available across Europe
starting this July.
“We are excited about further extending our good cooperation
with T-Mobile by supporting them in their key propositions like MyFaves and web’n’walk,
and we see this as a perfect match with our Ovi services,” said Anssi Vanjoki,
Executive Vice President Nokia. “We believe in providing consumers with choice
regarding which Internet services they want to access from their mobile device.”
Nokia introduced Ovi in August last year, as a “door” (the
translation of Ovi in Finnish) to offering customers easy access to their
social network, communities and content, as well as other Nokia services. Ovi
includes Nokia Music Store and N-Gage, as well as Nokia Maps and other
services.
"High-performance devices and our broadband mobile
phone network are ideally suited for granting easy access to our T-Mobile
Services like MyFaves, web'n'walk or Nokia-complementary service offerings
(e.g. Maps or Games), providing our customers with an even wider range of
mobile communication, information and entertainment services," said
Christopher Schläffer, Group Product and innovation Officer at Deutsche Telekom.
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