Kinoma Notes

Today we have some incred­i­ble news — the first mobile oper­a­tor to ship the world’s first phone built on Qualcomm’s new Snap­dragon plat­form has cho­sen Kinoma Play to power the device’s media experience.

The mobile oper­a­tor is NTT DOCOMO. They’re Japan’s largest mobile oper­a­tor, and they’re known for pro­vid­ing the lat­est in cutting-edge tech­nol­ogy to its customers.

The phone is the amaz­ing Toshiba TG01. It’s thin — under 10mm! — beau­ti­ful, and wicked fast (1 GHz vs. the iPhone 3G’s 620 MHz).

And yes, Kinoma Play runs like an absolute dream on it!

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.”

Tip: You might see some screen­shots of video of Kinoma Play run­ning on the T-01A soon. If you do, keep your eyes open for fea­tures that haven’t made it into the retail ver­sion of Kinoma Play…yet!

• Kinoma Play Debuts With World’s First “Snap­dragon” Phone on NTT DOCOMO, Japan’s Largest Mobile Oper­a­tor [Mar­ketwire]

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