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Kinoma Play, the Best Way to Find, Play, and Share Media, Now Available for Nokia S60

The “social media browser” that connects people to their favorite media is now available for the largest installed base of smartphones in the world

PALO ALTO, Calif. – September 15, 2009 – Today Kinoma announced that its flagship product, Kinoma Play, is now available for Nokia S60, the world’s dominant smartphone platform. Nokia S60 users can now enjoy the best way to find, play, and share media in a beautiful, fast, easy-to-use application.

Kinoma Play lets users find media fast by browsing the extensive built-in Kinoma Guide app or searching leading media sites including YouTube, Flickr, and SHOUTcast. It allows them to play media in all popular formats including Windows Media, MPEG-4/H.264, and iTunes AAC. Finally, Kinoma Play users can easily share what they’re enjoying using Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm, and more.

“Kinoma Play connects your media and your social networks with a power and simplicity unavailable in any other S60 application,” said Peter Hoddie, CEO of Kinoma, “It’s not just that Kinoma Play does more — it’s how naturally and intuitively everything works together. Nokia users have been asking us for Kinoma Play since its release on Windows Mobile, and today we’re proud to announce that their ‘killer app’ has arrived.”

“Nokia’s goal is to provide the best media experience possible on mobile, so we’re thrilled that Kinoma Play is now available for Nokia S60 phones,” said Purnima Kochikar, VP, Forum Nokia and Developer Communities, at Nokia. “It’s exciting and fun for consumers who want to play and share the world’s best entertainment content, and indispensible for business users who need constant access to the latest business and financial news. Innovators like Kinoma show that the only limit to Nokia platforms is their imagination.”

Setting a New Standard for S60 Applications, and for Mobile Media

As a next-generation media player, Kinoma Play is peerless. It makes standalone single-media players obsolete, enabling effortless command over music, video, podcasts, audiobooks, Internet radio, and photos. Whether playing media from the phone, web sites or social networks, Kinoma Play makes the experience fast, fun, and easy.

In addition to playing personal media, Kinoma Play puts the “best of the web” in the palm of your hand with quick, easy access to content including millions of hours of on-demand and live video, more than 30,000 radio stations, tens of thousands of audio and video podcasts, and millions of photo albums.

Connecting Content and People Like Nothing Else Can

With deep support for major social networks including Twitter and Facebook, Kinoma Play makes sharing media as natural as playing it. Share photos and links to your favorite music and YouTube videos in seconds. Use the built-in Last.fm app to “scrobble” your personal playlist and learn more about favorite artists, then use Kinoma Play’s unmatched YouTube app to watch their music videos.

Exclusive cross-social sharing allows users to share everything with everybody in a way that would be clumsy or impossible with other applications — for example, users can share YouTube videos on Facebook, share Facebook photos on Twitter, share podcast episodes via SMS, and more.

Pricing and Availability

Kinoma Play for Nokia Symbian/S60 devices (S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 or Feature Pack 2) is available immediately at kinoma.com for $29.99 U.S. Kinoma Play supports Dutch, English, French, French Canadian, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish.

About Kinoma Play

Kinoma Play is the best way to play and share video, music, podcasts, radio, photos, panoramas, and audiobooks on your phone. As the first social media browser, Kinoma Play has changed the mobile media landscape and quickly established a reputation as a must-have application for Windows Mobile.

About Kinoma

Kinoma makes software with a focus on design, simplicity, and fun. Its software powers the media experience on millions of devices on 14 carrier networks for customers including NTT DoCoMo, Palm, SoftBank Mobile, Sony, and more. Kinoma’s latest innovation is Kinoma Play, the world’s first social media browser.

Kinoma is a registered trademark of Kinoma, Inc. For further information, visit kinoma.com. Follow @Kinoma on Twitter (twitter.com/Kinoma) for the latest news, and subscribe Kinoma’s blog at blog.kinoma.com via email or RSS.

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Kinoma Introduces World’s First Mobile
“Social Media Browser”

New Kinoma Play brings together leading media services and social networks like Twitter and Facebook for the first time on a mobile phone

PALO ALTO, Calif. – May 28, 2009 – With today’s release of Kinoma Play, the best way to find, play and share media on a mobile phone is now also the best way to find, play and share media across social networks and media services like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and Picasa.

The new release of Kinoma Play for Windows Mobile builds on its leading, touch-optimized media experience to provide a social media experience that’s faster, more fun and more connected.

“The new Kinoma Play connects your media and your social networks with power and simplicity unavailable anywhere else,’ said Peter Hoddie, CEO of Kinoma, “It’s not just that we’ve added hundreds of new features — it’s how naturally they work together, and how easily they work together on the new Kinoma Play home screen.”

This new Kinoma Play release includes:

• Cross-social sharing – Kinoma Play’s unique approach to supporting social media services and social networks breaks down the barriers between them and is key to its “share everything with everybody” approach. Users can share YouTube videos on Facebook, share Facebook photos on Twitter, share tunes via SMS, and more — because everything’s a first-class citizen, they can do it in a way that would otherwise be clumsy or impossible.
• Your mobile media home – Users can now create personal Home screens for fast access to their favorite stuff. Exclusive ZoomLinks let users jump instantly to almost anything — individual items, entire albums, even to specific features of any Kinoma Play application. They can make pages that collect friends’ Flickr photostreams, YouTube favorites and Twitter tweets, pages of “presets” to live radio streams and podcasts — the possibilities are infinite.
• Twitter – Allows users to tweet about the music, videos and podcasts they love on the world’s largest microblogging site. They can update their status, and photo-blog their day for friends, family and followers all around the world with built-in TwitPic integration. There’s even built-in search so users can see what the world’s saying about breaking news, or about themselves.
• Facebook – The world’s largest social network is also the world’s largest photo sharing site, and Kinoma Play is now the easiest, most convenient way for users to update their status and instantly share the pictures that tell the story of their life.
• App stores — Kinoma Play’s built-in store allows users to download and update their Kinoma Play apps. With two clicks they can install the Mobihand Store app to buy Windows Mobile apps for their phone, check out screenshots and YouTube video demos before they buy, and even download free trials.
• YouTube — Kinoma Play is now the world’s most comprehensive mobile application for YouTube, the world’s largest social video site. There’s an all-new user interface and tons of features — upload, browse, search, play, favorite, rate, comment, share and lots more.
• Last.fm — It’s the music service that “learns what you love” and now Kinoma Play lets users share their love of music with the world. Users can automatically “scrobble” while they listen, see and read about favorite bands and artists, find more artists like the ones they love and connect with what their friends are listening to as well.
• News Reader — Kinoma Play’s new built-in news reader application lets users read their favorite blogs and other news right within Kinoma Play, and play associated video, music, podcasts and pictures as well. By subscribing, they’ll automatically be notified about new posts as they become available.
• Cloud media playback and management — Kinoma Play users get 1GB of free space from cloud storage and sharing pioneer Box.net when they sign up within Kinoma Play — that’s enough space for over 250 songs. That lets users easily move media between their phone and PC, stream their own music, pictures and video without using valuable space on their phone, and share files and folders with friends.
• Flickr and Picasa — They’re two of the world’s largest photo-sharing sites, and they’re built right in. With Kinoma Play, the phone is an “infinite photo album” of personal photos, photos from friends and family and the most interesting photos taken by people around the world. Even upload new photos on the fly in just seconds.

Pricing and availability

This new release of Kinoma Play is available immediately for Windows Mobile users (Q3 for Symbian S60). The retail price remains just $29.99, and this update is free for all Kinoma Play customers.

About Kinoma Play

Since its acclaimed debut as the first mobile media browser, Kinoma Play has changed the mobile media landscape. Lauded as “the cure for iPhone envy”, Kinoma Play is considered a must-have for Windows Mobile phones, and delivers the primary media experience on flagship phones from leading mobile operators including Sprint, SOFTBANK MOBILE and NTT DOCOMO.

About Kinoma

Kinoma is a privately-held company formed in May 2002 to design and build mobile media products. Kinoma creates innovative, leading-edge products that are fun and easy to use while providing rich functionality.

Kinoma is a registered trademark of Kinoma, Inc. For further information, visit kinoma.com. Follow @Kinoma on Twitter (twitter.com/Kinoma) to get the latest news first. Kinoma will be posting “feature focus” articles with more detail to blog.kinoma.com, and posting daily tips for the new features to @KinomaTips on Twitter.

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Kinoma Play Debuts with World’s First “Snapdragon” Phone on NTT DOCOMO, Japan’s Largest Mobile Operator

Kinoma Play picked to power the mobile media experience

PALO ALTO, Calif. – May 20, 2009 – NTT DOCOMO has chosen Kinoma Play as the preferred media player for its flagship Windows Mobile phone by Toshiba — the docomo PRO series™ T-01A, the first phone based on Qualcomm’s 1 GHz “Snapdragon” platform.

Kinoma Play for NTT DOCOMO fulfills the “revolutionary convergence” promise of the phone and its underlying platform, delivering a mobile media experience that amplifies the amazing hardware and sleek design of the Toshiba T-01A. Kinoma’s ground-breaking media browser takes full advantage of the T-01A’s 4.1" WVGA widescreen cinematic display and 1 GHz of processing power to provide a next-generation media experience that’s faster, more fun, and more connected than anything the world has seen before.

Kinoma Play for NTT DOCOMO builds on the leading, touch-optimized media experience as Kinoma Play, with exclusive features not yet available anywhere else — on-demand downloads for new Kinoma Play apps, a super-customizable Home screen, a built-in news reader and podcatcher and more. It also includes all the features Kinoma Play is already known for, including local music, podcast and video playback, and support for media services like YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, SHOUTcast, and Live365.

“Sorry iPhone fans,” said Peter Hoddie, CEO of Kinoma. “The unbelievable combination of NTT DOCOMO’s network, Toshiba’s stunning T-01A, and our own Kinoma Play set a new bar for how cool a phone can be.”

About Kinoma

Kinoma is a privately-held company formed in May 2002 to design and build mobile media products. Kinoma creates innovative, leading-edge products that are fun and easy to use while providing rich functionality.

Kinoma is a registered trademark of Kinoma, Inc. For further information, visit www.Kinoma.com.

docomo PRO series is a trademark or registered trademark of NTT DOCOMO, INC. in Japan and other countries. Windows Mobile is a registered trademark of Microsoft, Inc. Snapdragon is a trademark of Qualcomm. All other brands, product names, company names, trademarks and service marks are the properties of their respective owners. All rights reserved.

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Kinoma Play Debuts in Japan on SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp.

SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. chooses Kinoma Play to enhance Windows Mobile media experience

PALO ALTO, Calif. – March 31, 2009 – Following the critically-acclaimed launch of Kinoma Play for Windows Mobile, SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. has released an enhanced edition of Kinoma Play in Japan for its Windows Mobile users.

Kinoma Play for SoftBank delivers a touch-optimized media experience for the same leading sites as Kinoma Play, including YouTube, Yahoo! Image Search, Flickr, Picasa, SHOUTcast, and Live365. The software also includes midomi music recognition as a SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. exclusive, and introduces a new home screen with big, touch-friendly icons that make it faster than ever to get started.

Kinoma Play for SoftBank is available immediately for users of the advanced SoftBank X04HT and SoftBank X05HT handsets by HTC. Demonstrating SoftBank’s commitment to getting unique innovations into customers’ hands, SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. will use various channels to notify its users of Kinoma Play for SoftBank.

“We are excited by the innovative design and user experience offered by Kinoma Play,” said Masanobu Yoshida, Senior VP of SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. “They underscore our leadership position in mobile innovation and web media.”

“SoftBank Mobile’s adoption of Kinoma Play attests to the value of Kinoma’s pioneering media browser concept to network operators,” said Peter Hoddie, CEO of Kinoma. “The combination of SoftBank Mobile’s 3G network and powerful handsets is a great way to experience the richness of Kinoma Play.”

About Kinoma

Kinoma is a privately-held company formed in May 2002 to design and build mobile media products. Kinoma creates innovative, leading-edge products that are fun and easy to use while providing rich functionality.

Kinoma is a registered trademark of Kinoma, Inc. For further information, visit www.Kinoma.com.

SOFTBANK, SOFTBANK’s equivalent in Japanese and the SOFTBANK logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of SOFTBANK CORP. in Japan and other countries. All other brands, product names, company names, trademarks and service marks are the properties of their respective owners. All rights reserved.

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Kinoma Introduces Kinoma Play —
the world’s first mobile media browser

Connects users to the most mobile media ever

PALO ALTO, Calif. – August 25, 2008 – Kinoma, a visionary creator of mobile media software, launches Kinoma Play to unify media browsing, search and playback, making it the first true mobile media browser. Featuring a user interface inspired by the simplicity and beauty of a digital television, Kinoma Play turns any Windows Mobile smartphone into a digital media powerhouse.

With Kinoma Play, smartphones now have digital media capabilities that meet, and sometimes even exceed, what users can do on their personal computers. Kinoma Play goes beyond organizing and playing a user’s video, audio and picture files, by bringing in media from around the Internet through the built-in Kinoma Guide, the most comprehensive catalog of the freshest, most diverse mobile media available.

Kinoma Play provides on-demand access from your phone to an unparalleled range of content:

• Media files – Play the music, video, pictures, panoramas and audio books on your phone
• Media services – Share your Audible.com, Flickr, iDisk, Live365, and YouTube accounts between your phone and computer
• Internet – Explore a terabyte of constantly updated, free streaming podcasts, music, radio stations, web-cams and audio books from thousands of providers including ClearChannel, CNN, NPR, Reuters, SHOUTcast, TUNED.mobi, and SomaFM
• Home PC – Access the gigabytes of music, video and pictures on your home PC from your phone – both on-demand streaming and download

“We created Kinoma Play to make it fun and easy for people to discover all the great media their phones can play,” said Peter Hoddie, co-founder and CEO of Kinoma. “By combining media playback and browsing, Kinoma Play frees users to explore an unprecedented range of media content.”

Among the key innovations in Kinoma Play:

• Streaming podcasts – Instead of tediously downloading and syncing, podcasts stream on-demand, so users are always up to date
• “Media First” user interface – User interface elements all-but-disappear when viewing photos, listening to music, or watching video to keep the focus on the media
• High quality YouTube – Kinoma Play provides high quality YouTube video by playing the same feeds delivered to your PC, when bandwidth permits
• Integrated search – Search your phone, your home PC and the Internet to find what you want
• Menu Pod – A beautifully animated dynamic menu providing fast access to many powerful features

“Kinoma Play offers the first streaming mobile access to your Audible.com account, so whether you want to listen to books you already purchased or are buying new ones, you get instant gratification — they are available immediately on your phone without connecting to your PC,” said Will Lopes, VP, Business Development, Audible.com.

“Kinoma Play connects smartphones to Live365, the world's largest Internet radio network, bringing thousands of great commercial-free stations to listeners on the go,” said Mark Lam, CEO, Live365. “Every type of music and talk radio you can imagine…and your presets are always in sync between your phone and the Live365 website making it easy to listen to the Live365.com website at work AND in your car on the way home!”

“Kinoma Play is fast, intuitive, and shows how a kick-ass player can deliver a great media experience on smartphones,” said Joe Costello, CEO of Orb Networks. “Orb adds a whole new dimension. Now my media experience isn't limited to what I can download and carry with me. With Orb you get anytime access to all your media – movies, music, and photos – from your home PC. Kinoma Play really makes the smartphone media experience as good – or better – than what you get on today's most expensive ’media’ phones.”

“With Kinoma Play, Kinoma continues a tradition of developing great software for Palm® products,” said Jonathan Wall, director of developer relations, Palm, Inc. “Kinoma Play takes advantage of our unique touch screen device capabilities and 3G connection speeds to offer the best way to enjoy services like Orb and YouTube on your Palm Treo™ smartphone.”

“This is a dynamite mobile media player! I love the way Kinoma Play integrates everything beautifully - my music, photos and video easily connects with content directly from the web," said Jamie Odell, Director, Product Management for Jaman.com, the world-wide distributor of online movie entertainment and Kinoma Play user. “I can view my local photos or play my own Flickr Photos and YouTube videos, and even listen to my favorite podcasts in the Kinoma Guide.”

Pricing & Availability

Kinoma Play is available at the Kinoma web site (www.kinoma.com) for a one-time payment of $29.99. The software is compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0 and higher.

Kinoma is also introducing Kinoma FreePlay as a free download. Kinoma FreePlay shares the same gorgeous user interface and simplicity of use with Kinoma Play. It is a great MP3 player and photo viewer and provides access to much of the Kinoma Guide including Audible.com, Flickr, Live365, Reuters, SHOUTcast, YouTube, and thousands of streaming podcasts.

Kinoma Play customers and Kinoma FreePlay users receive these special offers from Kinoma’s partners:

• Audible.com – Sign up for a new Audible.com account in the US and receive the complete audio book of the best-seller “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” for free.
• Live365 – Free 5-day trial of thousands of commercial-free radio stations. No sign-up required.
• Orb – Free PC software to access the media on your home PC from your phone.
• Kinoma FreePlay customers receive a 14 day free trial of aacPlus v2 audio for playback of unprotected music from their iTunes library. (Unlimited use of aacPlus v2 is included with Kinoma Play).

About Kinoma

Kinoma is a privately-held company formed in May 2002 to design and build mobile media products. Kinoma creates innovative, leading-edge products that are fun and easy to use while providing rich functionality.

Kinoma is a registered trademark of Kinoma, Inc.

Palm and Treo are among the trademarks or registered trademarks owned by or licensed to Palm, Inc. All other brands, product names, company names, trademarks and service marks are the properties of their respective owners. All rights reserved.

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