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23rd March 2004 - Nokia and Sun Microsystems today
announced the upcoming release of SNAP Mobile, an online
multiplayer gaming solution for Java games. The SNAP
Mobile solution will bring Nokia's advanced mobile online
multiplayer and community technology to a broad range
of mobile handsets using Sun's widely adopted Java language.
SNAP Mobile is expected to be available as part of a
tools environment based on Sun's Wireless Toolkit in
the third quarter of 2004.
With this solution, game developers can easily create
Java games with a mobile online multiplayer gaming component
that will allow consumers to play online connected games
with other people around the world. Network operators
can now rapidly and cost-effectively deploy a mobile
online gaming community for their Java game subscribers,
helping to drive additional data revenue from online
gaming sessions.
"Nokia sees that mobile online multiplayer games
and mobility go hand in hand, which is why we want to
work with Sun to complement our N-Gage offering and
expand the mobile online multiplayer experience to the
wider Java gaming market," said Ilkka Raiskinen,
Nokia's Senior Vice President, Games Business Unit.
"SNAP Mobile aims to provide the tools for developers
to easily create mobile online multiplayer games and
a straight forward way for network operators to launch
mobile online gaming communities."
"As the market for Java-based services in the mobile
market matures, the level of sophistication for services
has increased tremendously," said Chris Mellisinos,
chief gaming officer for Sun Microsystems. "Bringing
mobile games online is one of the most important steps
the industry needs to take. Java has proven itself to
be the right technology for building a better user experience
to mobile games; this effort now takes our joint customers'
experience to yet a higher level."
SNAP Mobile is based on Nokia's Scalable Network Application
Package (SNAP) middleware technology and Sun's widely
adopted Java language for mobile devices. The SNAP Mobile
middleware will be made available on the Sun Solaris
operating environment to provide the high availability
and performance required for multi-player sessions.
As a proven and tested middleware technology utilized
in the N-Gage Arena to enable mobile online multiplayer
gaming, SNAP enables a cross-platform approach to mobile
multiplayer gaming.
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