Nokia: your lifeline to the net

Yahoo! data communications services such as email, entertainment services such as ring tones, wallpapers and downloadable games and Yahoo! Search for Mobile, will be the first set of services available through Nokia devices based on Series 60, the smartphone platform.

Harry Santamäki, vice president, strategy and business development, Nokia Multimedia, says: "Access to information, entertainment and the ability to stay in touch when and where you want is at the heart of our vision of a mobile connected life.

"Our agreement with Yahoo! is a progressive step in facilitating the adoption of an online lifestyle: we are providing consumers with a familiar way of accessing the internet and Yahoo! email through their mobile devices, with the added convenience of content downloads on the go."

Juha Varelius, vice president and managing director of Yahoo! Mobile, says: "With consumers' lives across the world becoming increasingly centered around mobile communications, this new international relationship between Yahoo! and Nokia is a great way for people to have the Yahoo! internet experience on their Nokia phone and benefit from a range of essential services on the go."

Nokia is the first handset manufacturer with Symbian-based products to distribute Yahoo! services for consumers. The first Nokia devices with Yahoo! internet services are the Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681 and the Nokia 6630. The existing Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681 and Nokia 6630 owners will be able to download similar applications over-the-air in the same markets starting from the second half of 2005.