Released by Kodak:
KODAK Mobile Service features a premium sport wallpaper service
Mobile Phones can be personalised with exclusive sport images
United Kingdom, 23 August 2004 – Starting today, as part of KODAK Mobile Service, Kodak offers easy access to premium-content sport images that can be downloaded and saved as wallpaper on mobile phones. Taken by high profile photographers, these images capture the most intense moments of past and current sport events, conveying emotions and memories to share with friends, family and fellow sport-aficionados.
“KODAK Mobile Service makes it simple for digital camera and camera-enabled phone owners to easily make the most of their pictures and videos on the go,” explains Philippe Kalmbach, general manager of Digital Imaging Services, (EMEA), Eastman Kodak Company. “From now on, they can also access exclusive, high-quality image libraries to download their favourite sport pictures and save them as customized wallpaper.”
Easy access to premium-content sport images
The library includes artistic sport images, illustrating popular sport categories such as football, rugby and tennis. In line with the growing enthusiasm for outdoor and extreme sports, the library also features surfing and skateboarding pictures.
The French photo agency AFP will regularly supply the library with outstanding pictures from international competitions in a large number of sport categories, ensuring wide coverage of the European sport scene and the opportunity for people to find recent and premium images for download.
By sending to 87050 a premium rate SMS with the message KODAK OG (Web) or KODAK OG1 (WAP), customers simply receive a WAP link that lead them into the KODAK image library. Once in that library, they can select their favourite sport images and download as many images as they want on their mobile phone.
This wallpaper premium service is available in the UK at a premium SMS rate of £3.
KODAK Mobile Service: a Comprehensive Platform
The KODAK Mobile Service is an easy-to-use, comprehensive service available for the growing number of consumers using camera-enabled mobile phones. With KODAK Mobile Service, consumers can view, share, organise, store and print their pictures and videos on the go. This mobile imaging service is accessible online at www.kodakmobile.co.uk and on mobile phones supporting WAP 2.0.
Kodak has also created a handset application designed to upload pictures from camera phones to private albums even more quickly and easily. Users of NOKIA 7610 phones are the first to be offered this latest application in imaging technology. Once uploaded, pictures can be stored on the website with free unlimited storage capacities.
Members are then offered :
•• Intuitive Organisation: online albums can be arranged into folders for greater organisation and easier sharing with friends and family
•• Automatic Group Sharing: shared folders automatically email to friends when updated.
•• Quality Print Service: KODAK prints can be ordered and delivered to any address around the world.
In addition, pictures can be consulted at any time on any compatible mobile phone, providing a genuine mobile photo album service.
KODAK Mobile Service, together with the new KODAK EASYSHARE Printer Dock Plus and KODAK G3 Picture Maker, make up a key part of a complete digital imaging system which enables camera phone users to take advantage of wireless capabilities to share and print pictures more easily than ever – anytime, anywhere.
About Eastman Kodak Company and infoimaging
Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, print and view images – for memories, for information, for entertainment. The company is a major participant in infoimaging, a $385 billion industry composed of devices (digital cameras and flat-panel displays), infrastructure (online networks and delivery systems for images) and services & media (software, film and paper enabling people to access, analyze and print images). With sales of $13.3 billion in 2003, the company comprises several businesses: Health, supplying the healthcare industry with traditional and digital image capture and output products and services; Graphic Communications Group, offering on-demand colour printing and networking publishing systems consisting of three wholly owned subsidiaries: Encad, Inc., NexPress Solutions, and Kodak Versamark;; Commercial Imaging, offering image capture, output and storage products and services to businesses and government; Display & Components, which designs and manufactures state-of-the-art organic light-emitting diode displays as well as other specialty materials, and delivers optics and imaging sensors to original equipment manufacturers; and Digital & Film Imaging Systems, providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services.
Fact Sheet
KODAK Mobile Service
KODAK Mobile Service offers camera phone users anytime, anywhere access to their digital photos and phone-captured video. KODAK Mobile Service is an easy-to-use, comprehensive service for the growing number of camera phone users to access and interact with all of their digital pictures and mobile-captured video on the go.
With KODAK Mobile Service, users can:
•• Intuitively store and organise all their pictures and phone-captured video in one location;
•• Share all their digital and mobile pictures and stories with friends and family right from their camera phone;
•• View and organize images, including photos from family and friends, on a computer or phone;
•• Get real KODAK prints of their images delivered right to their door.
Highlights of KODAK Mobile Service
•• Intuitive Organisation: Online albums can be arranged into folders for greater organisation and easier sharing with friends and family
•• Automatic Group Sharing: Establish shared folders that automatically email your friends when updated.
•• Share With Anyone: With KODAK Mobile Service you can share with any image-ready phone or computer – You don’t need to have the same carrier to share photos with family and friends.
•• Order Prints: As a KODAK Mobile Service member, photos will also be stored, so users can edit their images and order prints.
•• Customise mobile phone : Mobile phones can easily be personalised by saving images as wallpaper
KODAK Mobile Service Membership
Price Free
Wallpaper 1 € / £ 1 per image downloaded
Storage Unlimited uploads
Upload From PC or MMS/email enabled phone
Share From PC or mobile phone
View On PC or mobile phone
Buy Prints From PC - for 10x15 cm unit : £ 0,24 (UK), 0,24 € (Germany), 0,29 € (France)
How To Get KODAK Mobile Service
•• Anyone with a camera or multimedia/photo ready phone that supports WAP 2.0 can begin using KODAK Mobile Service, which can be accessed by computer or handset browser at www.kodakmobile.co.uk in UK;
•• Kodak has worked with Nokia, the leading handset maker, to create seamless links from NOKIA 7610 camera phones to the KODAK Mobile Service. Nokia phone users can sign up for the service at www.nokia.kodakmobile.co.uk.
Getting Started With KODAK Mobile Service
Each KODAK Mobile Service user will have functionality particular to their service provider and mobile handset. Therefore, the steps outlined below provide a broad tutorial, and are not detailed to the level of “click by click” instruction for your individual service.
1. Signing Up
1. Through a computer connection go to www.kodakmobile.co.uk and click the “Get Started” button
2. Provide an email address at which you would like to receive service messages. It will become your username each time you return
3. Create a personal password
4. Have your mobile phone turned on. You will be sent an SMS message to the mobile phone number you provide with a personal identification number (PIN) included – to ensure that you are indeed the owner of the phone
5. Enter the PIN contained in the SMS message and press the “Verify Phone Number” button
Your account is set up!
Note: KODAK Mobile Service is provided by Ofoto, Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eastman Kodak Company. Existing Ofoto members should “Sign In” at the welcome screen, rather than start a new membership. This way, the members will be able to see all the existing pictures saved at Ofoto using KODAK Mobile Service as well.
2. Uploading
1. Send pictures using MMS from your camera phone to [email protected]
We suggest users add an entry to the address book on their mobile phone called “KODAK Mobile” and give it the email address: save@kodakmobile. co.uk , to avoid having to type the email address using the mobile phone keypad.
3. Viewing
1. Go to KODAK Mobile Service at www.kodakmobile. co.uk using either the computer or a mobile phone that supports WAP 2.0
2. Sign in
3. You will see all your albums
4. Click on an album to see thumbnails of the pictures saved in that album
5. Click on a thumbnail to see the enlarged picture
6. You can navigate to see “next” or “previous” pictures
4. Sharing
People you invite to see your album will see only the album you want shared
1. From KODAK Mobile Service on either the computer or the mobile phone, select an album to share
2. Choose “share album” from the menu
3. Enter the email addresses of the people with whom you want to share (if you entered these in the KODAK Mobile Service address book, you can select them directly from the address book)
4. Click on “Send”
(Kodak is a trademark of Eastman Kodak Company.) 2004