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Finnish mobile phone giant, Nokia, the world's largest producer of mobile phone handsets, has signed new video deals with seven companies including CNN and Sony Pictures. The deal has been made to bring video content to Nokia's top-of-the-range multimedia phone models. The company has previously signed deals with Google Inc.'s YouTube video sharing giant and Reuters news agency.

"Consumer desire to watch Internet videos on mobile devices is growing all the time and we want to help users discover and access the best content in the simplest way possible," Harri Mannisto, director at Nokia's multimedia unit, said on Tuesday.



The company has also struck deals to bring video content from India's IBN news channel, Jamba, RooftopComedy, ROK and Versaly Entertainment to its N95 models.

Source:
Reuters

Written by: James Delahunty @ 27 Sep 2007 5:13