Groove Mobile Powers Music on 8 of World's Top 10 Selling Mobile Phones

Groove Mobile Powers Music on 8 of World's Top 10 Selling Mobile Phones

Mobile phone makers to sell 960 million handsets in 2006, and over 1 billion mobile phones in 2007

BEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Groove Mobile, the leading mobile music commerce platform, announced today that it powers music on 8 of the world's top 10 selling mobile phones during the month of September. Figures for September reflect sales on six continents and over 50 countries according to a survey for Krusell, a Swedish manufacturer of mobile device cases exported around the world. Combined with today's announcement from IMS Research that mobile phone sales will top 960 million units in 2006 and over 1 billion in 2007, Groove Mobile now powers the world's largest deployment of mobile music devices on handsets manufactured by Motorola, Samsung, Sanyo, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and LG among others.

Today's statistics confirm that the world's top mobile phone manufacturers are now competing with devices such as the iPod to become the preferred mobile music device. Millions of handsets operating on the world's most robust 3G networks are supporting the Grove Mobile music player in order to take advantage of innovative features including Groove Mobile's WAP Music Store. In addition, mobile phones operating on 2.5G and GPRS networks are expanding their potential mobile music customer base by supporting Groove Mobile's award winning music player and taking advantage of increased efficiency in compression and transmission.

"By playing music on 8 of the world's top 10 selling handsets, Groove Mobile is leading the worldwide expansion of today's mobile music market," stated Adam Sexton, Vice President, Marketing and Product Management, Groove Mobile. "No other music device can rival the mobile phone for its dominant presence in hands of consumers around the world and Groove Mobile's ability to bring music to them."

The Groove Mobile music player currently runs on the following handsets:

Motorola: RAZR V3m, KRZR K1m, SLVR L7c, E1070, V3x, E1000, A1000,
Samsung: D600, Z400, A900, A920, A940
Sanyo: MM-9000, MM-7500
Nokia: N70, N73, 6630, 6680, 6280, 3230, 7610
Sony Ericsson: K600, W850, W950i, K750, W600, W800, W810i,
LG: U400, Fusic

The popularity of the Groove Mobile player comes in part from its flexibility and compatibility as well as its innovation. The Groove Mobile music player comes pre-installed on many popular handsets, can easily be downloaded over the air, and runs seamlessly on JAVA, Symbian and Microsoft operating systems. In addition, Groove Mobile powers music stores for wireless carriers in the United States, Canada, the UK, European Union and Australasia.

Since debuting its first music platform in 2004, Groove Mobile has received awards and top ratings for ease of use and innovation from consumers, trade associations, industry analysts, magazines and Internet publications. Groove Mobile is also recognized for its industry leadership including powering the first US mobile music service, providing the first US dual download feature, creating the first music discovery recommendations based on purchase history, and the launching the first peer to peer sharing of music clips via text messaging.

ABOUT GROOVE MOBILE

Groove Mobile is the world's leading mobile music service. Groove Mobile's Complete Music Gateway includes Full Track Mobile Downloads, Peer-to- Peer Sharing and Personalized Music Recommendations, in addition to providing Personalized and Programmed Streaming Radio, Music Subscriptions, and more. Last year, Groove Mobile powered the #1 rated mobile music service in the UK, and the first mobile music service in the US, Sprint's Music Store. Groove Mobile launched the world's first secure peer-to-peer distribution in the mobile space, with its pioneering TELL-A-FRIEND feature. Groove Mobile's direct download service is available in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australasia and provides access to music from EMI, Warner Music International, V2, and Beggars Group, Digital Rights Management and the Orchard libraries. www.groovemobile.com.

Source: Groove Mobile

CONTACT: US - Bennet Ratcliff, bennet@ratcliffstrategies.com,
+1-310-261-0408, UK - Adam Sexton, +44-786-694-7019, both for Groove Mobile

Web site: http://www.groovemobile.com/

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