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.

Today I received an email from my friends over at Kinoma, they have released a new version of their mobile media browser — Kinoma Play — that I reviewed last year and this update is smoking!

Toshiba TG01 (docomo PRO series T-01A) + Kinoma Play walkthrough from KinomaTV on Vimeo.

This video is a 20 minute walkthrough that shows off all the new updates to Kinoma Play, it’s a bit long but it shows all the new stuff that you can do with the newest version of this great mobile app.

So you have your Windows Mobile phone in one pocket, ready to take calls, and in the other pocket is… what, your MP3 player of choice, perhaps one that even streams YouTube videos and plays synced podcasts or records audio? Why do you carry a phone capable of playing music already and an MP3 player? Because your phone doesn’t specialize in music or video playback. Well now it can, and BETTER and FASTER than the iPhone, all because of Kinoma Play!

Kinoma Play is the product of 3 years of hard work and that hard work shows, it’s a clean app and the first time I used it I knew that it was made by professionals. I had the privilege of speaking with Charles Wiltgen, Kinoma’s Director of Social Marketing, and he gave me insight into the wonderful application that is Kinoma Play.

At its most basic function Kinoma Play is a media player. The first time you run Play it scans your device and puts all your media into order in the app itself so you can easily find what you are looking for and open it directly from Play, be it music, pictures, movies, playlists, or documents. The interface is very “Apple-esque” and reminds me a lot of my iPod Touch; it’s very simple and easy to find things. You can also search through your media directly from the “My Media Files” menu, a great touch to the interface. But there are hundreds of media players for Windows Mobile, and they all play movies, music, and some even show your pictures. So what makes Kinoma Play different? The Guide.

The Kinoma Guide is a powerful aggregator that goes out to all kinds of sites and feeds and pulls them all together for you to listen and watch. Want to hear an audiobook? Well just go to the Audiobooks and Literature channel in the guide where you can sign into Audible.com and listen to books you’ve already bought, streamed directly to your device, or listen to one of the hundreds of free books on LibriVox. Perhaps live radio is more of your thing, then check out the Radio channel. You can listen to one of the thousands of channels on the Clear Channel network, Fox News, Radio Disney, NPR Stations, and many more. What’s that, you like Sports? Got it. Technophile? Yup, plenty of podcasts to take care of your techno-lust. Weather? Uh huh. Religion? There’s even a Religious channel on here. There is half a terabyte of content on the Guide at any one time and it’s ALWAYS changing!

You want more? Okay, here’s what Kinoma did — they threw in syncing with services. Yes, you can send the pictures you take on your device to Flickr, the videos you record to YouTube, or if you have a MobileMe account with Apple you can even sync with that. As soon as you send that picture or movie it’s on the web. Yes, as soon as the progress bar fills up you can email your buddy and show him that picture you took last night.

If you are interested in trying Kinoma Play before parting with $20 for a license, there is a free version on the site as well, which has everything that the normal one but is more focused on YouTube, podcasts and photos. Charles assured me that Kinoma works with most Windows Mobile phones, but if you do have problems you can reach him on their forums or on Twitter.

Here’s a few videos on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/kinomaplay