Vringo and Marvel announced a partnership to create and distribute mobile videos and video ringtones based on Marvel’s superheroes. As a result, a new storefront and web-based editing platform has been created, allowing fans to purchase ready-made mobile clips and/or create their own from the Marvel archives.

Initially, the store features footage and pre-cut video ringtones from newer Marvel properties like the animated Wolverine & The X-Men, theme songs from the animated 1966 Marvel Super Heroes series, and the new content will be added every month. Of course, you will be able to turn and use all this content into video ringtones via Vringo’s application, which BTW works on BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Bold, Java2ME-compatible phones, as well as devices running Symbian or Windows Mobile. The first mobile video is available for free, while additional clips could be yours for $2 each. A dedicated website is there providing more information…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG)’s native YouTube client for S60 has been updated — it’s now in the version 2.2.17 — to work with Symbian S60 5th edition smartphones such as the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N97, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Samsung i8910 OmniaHD. As a result, now you can watch videos in full-screen mode. Moreover, the new version of the app also adds more languages and countries to the mix: Brazil, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia and Sweden.

But, and there’s always some “but”, the YouTube client still doesn’t allow users to log in and access their favorites and comment on clips. Hopefully, we’ll see this included in the next release.

In the meantime, if you own some of the devices mentioned above, point a web browser on your mobile phone to m.google.com and take it from there…

[Via: AllAboutSymbian]

America Movil announced that it will use Qualcomm’s Plaza Mobile Internet offering to power its Ideas Widget service across all of its 18 subsidiaries in Latin America, reaching around 190 million wireless subscribers on the continent.

From the press release:

Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM)’s Plaza Mobile Internet is an end-to-end widget platform that will allow America Movil to provide its end users with immediate and convenient access to customizable Internet content from mobile devices across their device portfolio. In addition, users can quickly and easily download and manage an array of rich, customizable content, either from their device or online.

Plaza Mobile Internet enables publishers to develop widgets quickly and easily using open Web standards and tools. Through this solution, publishers and content providers will be able to develop and submit their creations to America Movil’s widget catalog.

And I thought Qualcomm’s solution will remain unused. Kudos to their sales team — hopefully, America Movil’s users will jump on board and actually use some of the widgets offered, or who knows, develop their own small apps. We’ll see…

We’ve almost missed this one. It’s important so we’re going with it nonetheless.

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has recently opened its online music store in Poland. Like they do in other markets, Polish store too combines music from local artists with major labels. As a result, more than 4.5 million songs are available for download.

Price wise, individual songs cost PLN 3.49 (0.78 EUR) whereas full albums are PLN 34.9 (7.8 EUR)… The store could be reached from music.nokia.pl.

[Via: Unwired View]

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has quietly launched its music store in India. Still in beta, the store allows users with a special PIN code to listen 30-second previews of songs, only, but I guess it will be fully operational in the near future.

Nokia’s head of marketing for India, Vineet Taneja, told to MediaNama that “the pricing mechanisms for India are currently being worked out.” What this seems to mean is that they are negotiation with labels to drive the song price down and make it affordable for Indian consumers.

In the meantime, you can try it out for yourself by pointing your browser to music.nokia.co.in and take it from there…

[Via: Symbian-Freak]

If you’re a hard-core fan of Tolkien’s work, you certainly have some kind of related mobile content on your mobile. If you’re an iPhone user, unfortunately you can’t have your device branded with the Lord of the Rings content. Actually, you can, but your device needs to be jailbroken.

That said, we’ve spotted a new theme for the iPhone and iPod Touch called One Ring. As you can see from the screenshot above, the main idea of the theme is Sauron’s ring, which is made to “rule them all.” Icons are shield-shaped, which I don’t like that much, but then again, I’m sure Tolkien fans won’t mind it at all…

More information is available from here, and the theme should be available for download through Cydia.

[Via: JustAnotherIphoneBlog]

SIRIUS XM Radio has recently announced that it can compete with the likes of FlyCast, Radiolicious and Pandora on the iPhone. Actually, they said their iPhone app has been downloaded over 1 million times from the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) AppStore, and that milestone was achieved within 2 weeks of availability.

The application was originally introduced on June 18th and quickly became the top free app in the Music category. Those who still haven’t downloaded it should know that it allows users to access 120 channels of popular talk, sports and entertainment shows, as well as commercial-free music.

Among the programming that’s available on SIRIUS XM are Oprah Radio, MLB Home Plate, Martha Stewart Living Radio, SIRIUS NFL Radio, NHL Home Ice, PGA TOUR, Opie & Anthony, Mad Dog Radio with Chris Russo, Playboy Radio, The Foxxhole comedy channel presented by Jamie Foxx, Blue Collar Comedy Radio, CNN, Fox News Talk and NPR…

Convinced? AppStore link is here!

Ok, we get it. Every media outlet wants to have its own iPhone app. Latest company to join the trend is Arabic TV news station – Al Jazeera. They’ve launched a dedicated application in English, “covering the world, bridging cultures and setting the news agenda.”

To use the app, all you have to do is press the button “Watch live now” at the bottom of the screen, and that’s about it. The streaming video will start with the latest news from The Middle East. They say both 3G and WiFi connection will work, though some people have complained video quality on 3G can’t come close to the one on WiFi. Guess, they haven’t tried it with the faster iPhone 3GS.

Anyway, Al Jazeera English app costs 3 bucks ($2.99) and you can grab it from here. (iTunes link)

[Via: textually.org]

Wikipedia has officially launched the mobile version of their site with support for the iPhone, Android devices, the Kindle, and the Palm Pre. This news was a long time coming, as the ‘alpha-beta-development-maybe-kind-live mode’ (as Wikimedia puts it) site was up for around 6 months already. If you own one of the devices mentioned above, simply hit up mobile.wikipedia.org and you should be instantly redirected to the new-and-improved mobile-licious version of the site.

For full details check out the official post from Wikimedia… And be sure to check it out on your iPhone, Android device, Kindle or Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre… Let us know if this is a thumbs up or a thumbs down for you. I’m checking it out on my iPhone right now… she’s pretty easy to use. So far so good.

[Via: Lifehacker]

China Mobile’s app store looks almost live now. Although they said the official opening of the store is set for September of this year, a dedicated site is/was accessible for few days now. From there, we could see the main categories include games, themes, software, music, reading (ebooks?) and videos. The site looks nicely designed and I guess it’s now in the fine-tuning and mobile content submission phase. We’ve heard the world’s largest mobile operator in terms of number of subscribers will ask for 50% cut of all sales, but I doubt that will stop content developers in submitting their apps. The potential is too huge to be missed…

[Via: Engadget Mobile]