RealNetworks & Nokia Partner Up
Author: Jeremy C. Wright, Staff Writer
Wednesday, 09 February 2005, 21:36 GMT
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RealNetworks has announced that it will be broadening its existing relationship with Nokia today. The deal will see Nokia devices enabled to play music and video from RealNetworks’ services.
The original deal, brokered in 2002, put RealPlayer – RealNetworks’ audio and video player – on the Series 60 phone platform used by more than a dozen phones. The newest agreement will see that software distributed on any Nokia device, though no specific devices were named in the announcement.
Nokia said that it has also joined the Helix Community, and will work with engineers to develop and port Helix-based media technology including the Helix DNA client media engine, along with RealAudio and RealVideo, to a range of Nokia devices and the Series 60 platform.
RealNetworks also unveiled a licensing option that allows manufacturers to integrate RealAudio and RealVideo with the multi-format Helix DNA client media engine, or a different media player of their choice, with no "differential" in cost.
The new deal should save Nokia millions in licensing fees and will allow Real to provide handset makers with a kit to ensure their products are Helix-compatible and ready for consumer use.
Called the Technology Compatibility Kit, it includes dozens of tests that handset makers can run to make sure that a device's hardware and software work together.
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