airG Extends Mobile Games Offering in Australia
airG Provides New JAVA Content to Virgin Mobile Australia
VANCOUVER, CANADA - March 31, 2005 - airG , the most innovative supplier of advanced multiplayer mobile entertainment solutions announced today that it has been chosen by Virgin Mobile Australia (VMA), Australia's leading consumer focused and youth oriented mobile network, to further expand its JAVA content service. airG will supply a comprehensive catalogue of over sixty JAVA games and manage all provisioning for future content releases, including testing and quality assurance.
"We are pleased to be working with VMA in bringing cutting edge mobile entertainment products to Australian consumers, " says Frederick Ghahramani, Director, airG . " VMA customers can now enjoy a huge selection of today's best JAVA games spanning popular genres including RPG (role-playing games), sports, arcade, racing, puzzle, action/adventure and casino/cards, and with extended device support that meets the anytime, anyplace accessibility needs of all Virgin Mobilers."
Through partnerships with leading content developers worldwide airG has amassed a catalogue of high quality and highly sought after JAVA content. Some of the popular titles included in the new JAVA games offering on Virgin Mobile Australia are:
Tamzin Taylor, Product Manager at Virgin Mobile Australia commented "airG has consistently demonstrated their commitment to the Virgin Mobile Australia brand. Whether it be updating their portfolio of games to accommodate our requests or tweaking to ensure the games are handset capable, airG delivers. airG is currently Virgin Mobile's largest JAVA games supplier, and we look forward to developing that relationship in the future."
JAVA refers to enhanced games that can be updated frequently, downloaded over the air and stored locally in the handset to use wherever, whenever. It brings true gaming look and feel to the mobile phone, with full colour, motion and rich story lines, and is the first true representation of popular console style gaming on the mobile handset.
Virgin Mobile Australia customers can access the JAVA games through their wireless web or JAVA enabled handsets.
About airG
airG powers mobile communities and wireless social networking. The company’s products and services have a proven track record of increasing customer affinity for leading mobile operators and media companies globally including Sprint Nextel, Cingular, Virgin Mobile, Orange and MTV Asia. airG ’s mobile community has more than seven million registered users worldwide and is available on more than 85 mobile operators. Based in Vancouver, Canada, the company also has offices in the UK and Australia. www.airg.com
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