ESPOO, FINLAND--(Marketwire - Aug 17, 2012) - Draw Something and Zynga Poker coming to
over 100 million Nokia consumers during
Fall 2012
Nokia today announced they will bring Zynga's global hit games,
Draw Something and Zynga Poker, to Nokia Asha Touch devices in Q3 2012 as
part
of their partnership announced earlier this summer. Nokia Asha Touch users
can
soon challenge their friends to a round of the popular social drawing and
guessing game, or enjoy their own virtual poker match. Zynga's Draw
Something
and Zynga Poker will both be free to download from Nokia Store
The announcement reinforces Nokia's commitment to delivering must-have app
and
gaming experiences to consumers of Nokia Series 40 devices, including the
Nokia
Asha Touch range. Nokia Asha Touch users already enjoy a variety of mobile
gaming experiences enabled by global partners such as EA, Gameloft, Rovio,
NAMCO
BANDAI and now, Zynga.
"It's great to expand our offering of Zynga games to deliver more
blockbuster
titles across our portfolio of mobile devices, giving consumers great
choice and
tremendous value," said Bryan Biniak, VP & GM, Global Partnering &
Application
Development, Nokia. "With premium design, powerful hardware and outstanding
gaming capabilities, we're redefining what consumers expect from today's
feature
phone experience."
Nokia Asha Touch devices have been designed to provide an incredibly rich,
fast
and engaging experience to consumers:
- The beautifully crafted Nokia Asha 311 is a fast and fluid 3.5G
capacitive
touchscreen device, powered by a 1GHz processor to provide a great internet
experience.
- The bright and edgy Nokia Asha 305 is a fun and affordable phone,
featuring
the exclusive Easy Swap dual SIM.
- Its sister, the Nokia Asha 306, is a single SIM model, and becomes
Nokia's
most affordable Wi-Fi handset to date.
The devices feature the new, fully re-designed Asha Touch user interface,
which
combines proven ease-of-use from Nokia's heritage with new, digital design
innovations. The cloud-accelerated Nokia Browser 2.0 makes Internet surfing
up
to three times faster and 85% cheaper than comparable browsers, and is
available
to download for free from Nokia Store.
Recently, Nokia Store broke the five billion downloads landmark. From
January to
April 2012, 42% of all content downloaded from Nokia Store was delivered to
Series 40 devices, including the Asha Touch range. To-date, more than 500
Nokia
developers have apps which have achieved more than one million downloads,
while
India Games, Pico Brothers and Inode have all achieved more than 100
million
downloads.
About Nokia
Nokia is a global leader in mobile communications whose products have
become an
integral part of the lives of people around the world. Every day, more than
1.3
billion people use their Nokia to capture and share experiences, access
information, find their way or simply to speak to one another. Nokia's
technological and design innovations have made its brand one of the most
recognized in the world. For more information, visit
http://www.nokia.com/about-
nokia.
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