The software, RealPlayer Mobile, is already included on top-of-the-line phone models from Nokia, which allows users to download video/audio data for use on the handset.
We’re taking what we’ve done with Nokia and generalizing it so anyone developing a Symbian (operating system) product can take advantage of the RealPlayer, Pete Zaballos, director of mobile marketing for Real, said in an interview with Reuters.
This alliance is a unity of two companies with an aim of preserving their presence in the future wireless market.Real has already 200 million users of its RealPlayer program for playing audio and video on PCs.
RealNetworks is fighting against its bitter rival Microsoft for the supply of digital media technology, but Microsoft has not decided to collaborate with a mobile phone manufacturer; instead it is to release its own handset later this year, called the Stinger.
