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Nokia and RealNetworks Extend Collaboration to Bring Audio and Video to The Mobile Masses Worldwide

Espoo, Finland and London (ots/PRNewswire)

  • Expansion of Relationship Will Bring RealAudio and RealVideo to Millions of Additional Consumers Globally
  • Nokia Joins Helix Community to Develop and Build on Helix DNA Architecture
Nokia (NYSE: NOK), the world leader in mobile communications, and
RealNetworks(R), Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK), the leading creator of digital
media services and software, today announced that the companies are
expanding their long-term relationship to enable Nokia to ship
RealAudio(R), RealVideo(R) and the Helix(TM) DNA powered
RealPlayer(R) 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 Helix agreement builds on the existing collaboration between
Nokia and Real that began in 2002 and made RealPlayer the standard
media player of the Series 60 Platform, providing Nokia and other
Series 60 licensees with the flexibility to deliver media
functionality to smart phones.
"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".
"Our momentous relationship represents a major milestone for
digital mobile media services. The Nokia-Real relationship is
enabling consumers around the globe to enjoy digital media wherever
and whenever they want," said Aref Matin, Vice President, Carrier and
System Software, RealNetworks, Inc. "Working with Nokia we will
leverage more powerful and flexible technologies to deliver
compelling mobile content experiences to an even broader range of
Nokia devices, which will enable content owners, operators and
consumers to reap the rewards of the promise of 3G".
As a member of the Helix Community, (www.helixcommunity.org),
Nokia will work with engineers in the community to develop and port
Helix-based media applications including the Helix DNA client media
engine, along with RealAudio and RealVideo, to a broad range of Nokia
devices and the Series 60 Platform.
About Nokia
Nokia is a world leader in mobile communications, driving the
growth and sustainability of the broader mobility industry. Nokia
connects people to each other and the information that matters to
them with easy-to-use and innovative products like mobile phones,
devices and solutions for imaging, games, media and businesses. Nokia
provides equipment, solutions and services for network operators and
corporations. www.nokia.com.
About RealNetworks, Inc.
RealNetworks, Inc. is the leading creator of digital media
services and software including the award-winning Rhapsody(R)
Internet jukebox service and RealPlayer(R) 10, the first digital
media player to integrate finding, organizing, buying, playing and
managing digital audio and video in a single product. Consumers can
access and experience audio/video programming and download
RealNetworks' consumer software at http://www.real.com .
Broadcasters, network operators, media companies and enterprises use
RealNetworks' products and services to create and deliver digital
media to PCs, mobile phones and consumer electronics devices.
RealNetworks' systems and corporate information is located at
http://www.realnetworks.com .
NOTE: RealNetworks, Rhapsody, RealPlayer, RealAudio, RealVideo and
Helix are trademarks or registered trademarks of RealNetworks, Inc.
All other companies or products listed herein are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective owners.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that
involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially
from the results predicted. Factors that could cause actual results
to differ from the results predicted include risks associated with
Nokia's and RealNetworks' ability to develop and market new mobile
technologies and services; risks associated with the ability of Nokia
and RealNetworks to complete the technical integration of
RealNetworks' technologies with Nokia's technologies; risks
associated with the sustained adoption and use of Nokia's and
RealNetworks' services and technologies by customers, including the
uncertainty of whether consumers will pay for subscription content
over mobile networks, which is a relatively new and unproven business
model; factors impacting Nokia's and RealNetworks' partners'
businesses that may impact the timing of such partners' adoption of
or use of Nokia's and RealNetworks' technologies; and competitive
risks, including competing technologies, products and services. More
information about potential risk factors that could affect
RealNetworks' business and financial results is included in
RealNetworks' annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December
31, 2001, and from time to time in other reports filed by
RealNetworks with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Web site: http://www.nokia.com
Web site: http://www.realnetworks.com

Contact:

Nokia, Technology Communications, +35-8718028244, or
press.office@nokia.com, or Nokia, Americas, Media Relations,
+1-914-368-0423, or communications.corp@nokia.com; or North America,
Lisa Strong of RealNetworks, +1-206-892-6585, or lstrong@real.com, or
Europe, Edward Howson of Axicom, +44-7740-173-051, or
edward.howson@axicom.com, for RealNetworks, Inc.