Kinoma Notes

Today we’re excited to announce that Kinoma Play will soon debut in Japan on Soft­Bank Mobile handsets.

We had a great expe­ri­ence work­ing closely with Soft­Bank on this release. “Kinoma Play for Soft­Bank” includes a re-designed home screen and SoftBank-exclusive ser­vices that make this the best edi­tion of Kinoma Play yet.

In addi­tion to the link to the full release at the bot­tom of this post, here are the impor­tant details:

Kinoma Play Debuts in Japan on SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp.

SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. Chooses Kinoma Play to Enhance Win­dows Mobile Media Experience

PALO ALTO, CA – 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.”

As part of this announce­ment, we’ve also released the first phase of our Japan­ese site. As I write this the sup­port area is fully trans­lated, and we’ll grad­u­ally local­ize other impor­tant parts of the site dur­ing future updates.

• Kinoma Play Debuts in Japan on SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. [Mar­ketwire]

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