New app partnerships announced at CTIA Wireless

Published by Ian Delaney on May 8, 2012

NEW ORLEANS, United States – At CTIA Wireless – the show for “all things mobile” – Nokia has announced a host of new and extended app partnerships to bring leading, exclusive titles to the Lumia smartphone family.

These newly announced apps join more than 80,000 available through the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Marco Argenti, SVP, Nokia Developer said: “With Nokia Lumia smartphones now available in 48 markets, developers are rapidly recognizing the business opportunities and creating their best work for our consumers.”

The new app updates fall across a variety of categories and encompass a host of well-known brands:

PGA-Tour-and-ESPN-Sports-Hub

SPORT

PGA TOUR – The PGA TOUR app will be available exclusively to Nokia Lumia owners from June 2012. Developed in partnership with Nokia, the app provides scores and player information and also interactive, augmented coverage of the action from the events on a hole-by-hole basis.

ESPN – The exclusive ESPN Sports Hub will receive a number of updates over current months, bringing greater personalisation options, such as panoramas dedicated to your favourite teams. A Windows Phone version of the ESPN Fantasy Football app will launch exclusively on Lumia this autumn.

EAi-and-Rovio

GAMES

Electronic Arts (EA) – EA’s family of games on Windows Phone is to be increased with a bevy of new titles including FIFA, Madden, NBA Jam, Tiger Woods, Mirror’s Edge and Yahtzee.

Rovio – The company is building a dedicated development team to create titles for Nokia Lumia and the wider Windows Phone ecosystem, with the goal of publishing all future Rovio titles – including Angry Birds Space – on the platform as quickly as possible.

GroupOn-TripDots-and-Paypal

LIFESTYLE

Groupon – Groupon is working on an extensive upgrade of its Windows Phone app, bringing a new augmented reality deal-finder function. It will be exclusive to Lumia owners for six months following its launch in Summer 2012.

TripDots – This is a an app that helps motorists optimise their fuel efficiency, awarding achievements as well as cost-savings in a wider social game while maintaining people’s privacy.

PayPal – Nokia and PayPal are working together to create a Windows Phone app to allow secure, fast and easy payments through PayPal wherever you may be.

AOL-Entertainment-Hub

ENTERTAINMENT

AOL Entertainment Hub – Exclusive to Nokia Lumia owners for six months from launch, this AOL app brings the cream of AOL’s content to Nokia Lumia owners. That includes the ability to play any of its 55,000 SHOUTcast radio stations, streaming albums with Listening Party. movie trailers and more.

Time-and-Newsweek

NEWS

TIME – the world’s largest weekly circulation magazine comes to Windows Phone. The app will deliver content from Time.com to mobile making full use of the UI’s possibilities, such as alerts for breaking news, the ability to share news items with your contacts in the People Hub and Live Tiles.

NewsWeek – NewsWeek is creating a Windows Phone version of The Daily Beast, its digital content partner. Designed for consuming the latest news while you’re on the move, the app allows you to access the latest stories in seconds. It also includes access to The Cheat Sheet – a one-stop shop for leading stories across the globe.

PRODUCTIVITY

Box app for Windows Phone – Box provides simple, secure sharing from anywhere in nine languages. The app will allow Windows Phone owners across the globe the ability to browse, search and share files right from their mobile phone.

Industry analyst firm IDC said that developers are moving away from simply porting existing apps to creating new offerings that take advantage of the unique features of the Windows Phone user interface. Crawford Del Prete, EVP, Chief Research Officer, IDC said that:

“With new and exclusive apps launching on a regular basis, and Nokia Lumia rapidly expanding into new markets, Nokia and Microsoft are demonstrating meaningful differentiation for consumers, developers, operators and retailers.”

Which are you looking forward to the most?

Comments

http://nokia-news.com/ Joao Luis

Sadly ESPN still not available in Spain and Portugal and not to mention no reply from yourselves as to why?? The funny thing is that ESPN is available in Spanish too.
http://nokia-news.com/ Joao Luis

Sadly ESPN still not available in Spain and Portugal and not to mention no reply from yourselves as to why?? The funny thing is that ESPN is available in Spanish too.
- http://conversations.nokia.com Ian Delaney
  
  That is odd. I will try to find out.
  - http://nokia-news.com/ Joao Luis
    
    Hi Ian, any news yet??
  - http://nokia-news.com/ Joao Luis
    
    Hi Ian, any news yet??
- http://conversations.nokia.com Ian Delaney
  
  That is odd. I will try to find out.
http://twitter.com/Hdrules Hradayesh Nimavat

“With Nokia Lumia smartphones now available in 48 markets, developers are rapidly recognizing the business opportunities and “creating” their best work for our consumers.” replace “creating” with “Porting” please as most of apps/games already available on other platforms.
- http://conversations.nokia.com Ian Delaney
  
  That’s not what IDC are saying. And it’s not at all true. There are a ton of apps that have been specially written to take advantage of panoramas, pivots and live tiles.
Bradley Larcher

Don’t like the treatment the N9 is getting. Why don’t they bring these apps to it. That Windows Phone do or die strategy is not good. Come on Nokia, show some love for one of the most loved and cherished devices of all time.
- http://www.facebook.com/mark.moreira Mark Moreira
  
  I have the Lumia 800 and I understand what you mean. My phone is almost an exact copy of yours and it is truly a beautiful device.
  
  With respect to the apps, its unfortunate to hear, but maybe you can jump to WP with the Lumia 800?? (The 900 is not as nice – no curved glass).
  - Anonymous
    
    But in this case he would get Windows Phone on his device. Hence it is very limited in the functionallity it would be a big step backward for Bradley.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Williams/100003504371490 John Williams
  
  You bought bad dude. You knew the N9 was DOA and still went ahead and bought it. Its nothing more than a novelty item now. My suggestion would be to put it in the drawer and jump into Windows Phone. You are missing out…
  - Anonymous
    
    Not until Windows Phone works as decent as the DOA Nokia N9. Currently I’m unable to see a single device on the market which is able to beat the N9.
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Williams/100003504371490 John Williams
      
      You sir are delusional!
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Williams/100003504371490 John Williams
      
      You sir are delusional!
  - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WF5RDUGP22TCVJZLOWFIKFE3FQ Alin
    
    WP has no marketshare and is UGLY, will not sell well, so it is possible that NOKIA will reconsider their decision or die. As a N9 user I would not buy a WP device even if it has double the apps of iOS, if I would need apps, then I would have bought an iPhone!
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Williams/100003504371490 John Williams
      
      And you too!
      - Anonymous
        
        Facts are more convincing than insults!
        
        And since Windows Phone is unable to deliver facts compared to the N9 superphone I would say Alin won this small fight. ;-)
      - http://twitter.com/JayJayTG Jay Gilliham
        
        WP has a proper eco-system and a modern and unique UI that isnt a copy of anything else out there.
        
        With an eco-system joining all MS services such as Office, Xbox, Skydrive, Windows and so on it has pure power! With the addition of Nokia adding Mapping and other services it will have even broader appeal.
        
        The OS itself has such pure development that it is a smooth user experience no matter what app your in or what task you are carrying out. This is something that wows many people when comparing WP to a device with a quad core cpu for example.
        
        The N9 is great, beautiful in fact yet due to the lack of support it is not going to compare to WP with Nokia behind it all the way. Also the Meego OS as brilliant as it is hasnt been designed to near perfecting (regarding smooth experiences throughout the OS) compared to WP. I mention this as the N9 is running on old hardware like WP’s yet the hardware and the software hasnt “married” as well as WP has with its hardware.
      - Anonymous
        
        Perhaps you should test and use booth systems before you praise Windows Phone.
        
        Windows Phone is a great marketing platform for Microsoft services but a awful hell if you life outside of this ecosystem and try to use the device in the real world.
      - http://twitter.com/JayJayTG Jay Gilliham
        
        Ok explain how it is awful compared to the rest without an ecosystem?
        
        Whether iPhone or Android you have to be apart of an ecosystem to get the best out of them right?
      - Anonymous
        
        There is a reason why I don’tuse a iPhone or Android device. And at Windows Phone the situation is evenworse because thereis oftenno choice, no way to replace a service like skydrive with at exampledropbox and Microsofthas removed a lot of normal Smartphone services to forcethe user to use their cloud services.
        
        Or why are Bluetoothfiletransfer, USBmasstoragemode and TV Out not working at Windows Phone?
        
        To make it worse, eventhe built in microsoftservices are very limited, at example, I’m only able to stream a at skydrive stored mp3 file to my device. Store the file again is not possible.
        
        Simply not competitive if you usedreal Smartphones before.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Williams/100003504371490 John Williams
  
  You bought bad dude. You knew the N9 was DOA and still went ahead and bought it. Its nothing more than a novelty item now. My suggestion would be to put it in the drawer and jump into Windows Phone. You are missing out…
- http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Williams/100003504371490 John Williams
  
  You bought bad dude. You knew the N9 was DOA and still went ahead and bought it. Its nothing more than a novelty item now. My suggestion would be to put it in the drawer and jump into Windows Phone. You are missing out…
- http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Williams/100003504371490 John Williams
  
  You bought bad dude. You knew the N9 was DOA and still went ahead and bought it. Its nothing more than a novelty item now. My suggestion would be to put it in the drawer and jump into Windows Phone. You are missing out…
Anonymous

What about Symbian Belle?
Anonymous

What about Symbian Belle?
Anonymous

What about Symbian Belle?
Anonymous

What about Symbian Belle?
Anonymous

I am just wondering if such inputs or effort was put into Symbian and Meego. Why are you not doing the same for the other OS. If the products sell, who gets the profit. Guess who – Nokia. Stop carrying your eggs in one basket. when it breaks, it will be disastrous. Not every body likes the same thing. Variety is the spice of life. Think ahead. My last phone from nokia is the 808. Once symbian is gone, will smoothly switch to andriod. I left windows OS for Symbian and i am not going back. even if it is free.
- http://www.facebook.com/francis.thibault Francis Thibault
  
  Windows Phone is miles from Windows Mobile!
  - Anonymous
    
    No, IMHO Windows Mobile had support for USB Massstorage Mode, Applications from different Sources and Bluetooth File transfer.
    
    Correct me if I’m wrong.
  - Anonymous
    
    No, IMHO Windows Mobile had support for USB Massstorage Mode, Applications from different Sources and Bluetooth File transfer.
    
    Correct me if I’m wrong.
  - Anonymous
    
    No, IMHO Windows Mobile had support for USB Massstorage Mode, Applications from different Sources and Bluetooth File transfer.
    
    Correct me if I’m wrong.
  - Anonymous
    
    No, IMHO Windows Mobile had support for USB Massstorage Mode, Applications from different Sources and Bluetooth File transfer.
    
    Correct me if I’m wrong.
- Anonymous
  
  After a Month using Android I bet you money you will have a different view. Mark my words. My windows phone never crashes and was the best decision i ever made. I used Android for 2 years and I will never EVER buy another one. I’ll go without a phone before I do. The POS crashed at the very least once a week. And that was me using 2 different phones. HTC and Samsung. Android is garbage. Straight up.
  - Anonymous
    
    You should have tried also the Nokia N9.
    
    Strong and flexible like Android with a intuitive UI, multitasking, full USB and Bluetooth support and stable like the simple Windows Phone featurephones.
  - Anonymous
    
    You should have tried also the Nokia N9.
    
    Strong and flexible like Android with a intuitive UI, multitasking, full USB and Bluetooth support and stable like the simple Windows Phone featurephones.
  - Anonymous
    
    You should have tried also the Nokia N9.
    
    Strong and flexible like Android with a intuitive UI, multitasking, full USB and Bluetooth support and stable like the simple Windows Phone featurephones.
  - Anonymous
    
    You should have tried also the Nokia N9.
    
    Strong and flexible like Android with a intuitive UI, multitasking, full USB and Bluetooth support and stable like the simple Windows Phone featurephones.
Anonymous

nice!

It’s great to have OEMs (besides Apple) build an ecosystem and think long term for a change!
http://www.favbrowser.com FavBrowser.com

So you want HTC to get Draw Something exclusive, Words with Friends by Samsung and start war here or would you rather compete against Apple and Android?

You are hurting WP as a platform, that is all. 3-6 month exclusives? BS, should be no more than 1 month.

Stop cannibalizing other OEMs, it will cause confusion and do more harm than good in the long term.
- http://www.facebook.com/mark.moreira Mark Moreira
  
  Look up “spell it” in the Marketplace, its a free (ad-supported) game like WWF. The company that made it also made King of the Seas (Battleship), I really like both of them!
  
  On the exclusive part, I think its because Nokia is the only one to actually go balls deep with WP. HTC and Samsung are best known for their Android devices. Also, considering the fact that Nokia is doing a lot of the dirty work with/for WP, they deserve temporary exclusivity.
  - http://www.favbrowser.com FavBrowser.com
    
    So as a HTC WP user, why would I want to go with Windows Phone next time when iOS and Android users enjoy same apps across all devices?
    
    Furthermore, why wait 6 months for exclusives when I can buy the iPhone now and get same apps? Do they want all but current Nokia wp users to migrate to Android and Apple devices?
    
    What if I go with Lumia next round and then HTC does same thing with other apps? This is unacceptable, users want seamless experience, all it does is create fragmentation.
    
    They should bring exclusives for WP as a platform, not for one phone only. That’s like offering Modern Warfare 3 for all but 4 GB Xbox users. Absurd.
    - http://twitter.com/GearsofDuty3 david H
      
      “So as a HTC WP user, why would I want to go with Windows Phone next time
      when iOS and Android users enjoy same apps across all devices?”
      
      Android users dont enjoy the same apps across all devices….I cant tell you how many times I go to download something on my epic 4G and I get an i’m sorry this isnt available for device
      
      With android you may never get some apps on your phone even if it is available for other phones from the same manufacturer, at least with this nokia deal you know it will eventually come to your phone, or you can go to iOS and get all the apps that u want and be a part of the cool crowd
    - http://twitter.com/GearsofDuty3 david H
      
      “So as a HTC WP user, why would I want to go with Windows Phone next time
      when iOS and Android users enjoy same apps across all devices?”
      
      Android users dont enjoy the same apps across all devices….I cant tell you how many times I go to download something on my epic 4G and I get an i’m sorry this isnt available for device
      
      With android you may never get some apps on your phone even if it is available for other phones from the same manufacturer, at least with this nokia deal you know it will eventually come to your phone, or you can go to iOS and get all the apps that u want and be a part of the cool crowd
    - http://twitter.com/GearsofDuty3 david H
      
      “So as a HTC WP user, why would I want to go with Windows Phone next time
      when iOS and Android users enjoy same apps across all devices?”
      
      Android users dont enjoy the same apps across all devices….I cant tell you how many times I go to download something on my epic 4G and I get an i’m sorry this isnt available for device
      
      With android you may never get some apps on your phone even if it is available for other phones from the same manufacturer, at least with this nokia deal you know it will eventually come to your phone, or you can go to iOS and get all the apps that u want and be a part of the cool crowd
- http://www.facebook.com/mark.moreira Mark Moreira
  
  Look up “spell it” in the Marketplace, its a free (ad-supported) game like WWF. The company that made it also made King of the Seas (Battleship), I really like both of them!
  
  On the exclusive part, I think its because Nokia is the only one to actually go balls deep with WP. HTC and Samsung are best known for their Android devices. Also, considering the fact that Nokia is doing a lot of the dirty work with/for WP, they deserve temporary exclusivity.
Anonymous

Great news Ian, but I was hoping you could provide some clarification on these two items…?

1) It appears only some of the apps are exclusive to Nokia – Rovio and EA bringing apps over will benefit all WindowsPhone users, right?

2) We will see these apps – including Angry Birds and EA’s offerings – on WP7…? I’m just concerned as there has been much speculation about the upcoming release of WP8, and whether existing Lumia (and other manufacturers’) devices will be upgradable to WP8.

On the last note – I *really* hope we will be able to upgrade. Especially with BB7 users feeling abandoned by RIM with their devices not being upgradable to BB10… and Microsoft already making a tough jump between WM6.5 and WP7… it would look bad if these new Lumias couldn’t run WP8. Even the iPhone3GS – released in 2009 – can run the latest version of iOS.

Hopefully we’ll get some definitive statement on this soon.

Thanks.
- http://conversations.nokia.com Ian Delaney
  
  All these announcements are for the current Lumia family of phones.
  - Anonymous
    
    That’s good to hear, thank you for the reply. :)
    
    ‘guess we’ll have to wait for an answer about the upgradability of the current devices to WP8, eh? Ah well… still, at least for now, we’ll at least have the knowledge that more great apps are coming for WP7. :)
Anonymous

Great news Ian, but I was hoping you could provide some clarification on these two items…?

1) It appears only some of the apps are exclusive to Nokia – Rovio and EA bringing apps over will benefit all WindowsPhone users, right?

2) We will see these apps – including Angry Birds and EA’s offerings – on WP7…? I’m just concerned as there has been much speculation about the upcoming release of WP8, and whether existing Lumia (and other manufacturers’) devices will be upgradable to WP8.

On the last note – I *really* hope we will be able to upgrade. Especially with BB7 users feeling abandoned by RIM with their devices not being upgradable to BB10… and Microsoft already making a tough jump between WM6.5 and WP7… it would look bad if these new Lumias couldn’t run WP8. Even the iPhone3GS – released in 2009 – can run the latest version of iOS.

Hopefully we’ll get some definitive statement on this soon.

Thanks.
Anonymous

Great news Ian, but I was hoping you could provide some clarification on these two items…?

1) It appears only some of the apps are exclusive to Nokia – Rovio and EA bringing apps over will benefit all WindowsPhone users, right?

2) We will see these apps – including Angry Birds and EA’s offerings – on WP7…? I’m just concerned as there has been much speculation about the upcoming release of WP8, and whether existing Lumia (and other manufacturers’) devices will be upgradable to WP8.

On the last note – I *really* hope we will be able to upgrade. Especially with BB7 users feeling abandoned by RIM with their devices not being upgradable to BB10… and Microsoft already making a tough jump between WM6.5 and WP7… it would look bad if these new Lumias couldn’t run WP8. Even the iPhone3GS – released in 2009 – can run the latest version of iOS.

Hopefully we’ll get some definitive statement on this soon.

Thanks.
Anonymous

Great news Ian, but I was hoping you could provide some clarification on these two items…?

1) It appears only some of the apps are exclusive to Nokia – Rovio and EA bringing apps over will benefit all WindowsPhone users, right?

2) We will see these apps – including Angry Birds and EA’s offerings – on WP7…? I’m just concerned as there has been much speculation about the upcoming release of WP8, and whether existing Lumia (and other manufacturers’) devices will be upgradable to WP8.

On the last note – I *really* hope we will be able to upgrade. Especially with BB7 users feeling abandoned by RIM with their devices not being upgradable to BB10… and Microsoft already making a tough jump between WM6.5 and WP7… it would look bad if these new Lumias couldn’t run WP8. Even the iPhone3GS – released in 2009 – can run the latest version of iOS.

Hopefully we’ll get some definitive statement on this soon.

Thanks.
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Jimbo

Coming here from the Engadget link to the same story.

I’ll ask the same question I did there: so, for which OS will these apps be for?

Nobody seems to be reporting whether it’ll be for Windows Phone 8, or for the current Windows Phone 7 devices?

Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
- http://conversations.nokia.com Ian Delaney
  
  For the current Lumia family.
- http://www.facebook.com/gadzgamz Ryan Gadz
  
  These new exclusive apps will run on all current and future Lumia devices. All current apps and games will run on Windows Phone 8. What we don’t know is if current devices can run all new WP8 apps. My expectation is that developers will have a choice: new features or backward compatibility.
- http://www.facebook.com/gadzgamz Ryan Gadz
  
  These new exclusive apps will run on all current and future Lumia devices. All current apps and games will run on Windows Phone 8. What we don’t know is if current devices can run all new WP8 apps. My expectation is that developers will have a choice: new features or backward compatibility.
Anonymous

@Favbrowser….Please stop! HTC and Samsung have both been in the WP system since 2010, and they’ve done zilch of this caliber for the consumers who purchased their WP devices.

Nokia has been on the WP ship for 7 months, and have added more value for Nokia Lumia customers in this short period of time than both HTC and Samsung WP customers combined. And that is just with Nokia apps alone! These exclusive titles are just icing on the cake :)

Turn your bitterness, envy, jealousy, and dissatisfaction towards the oem of your WP device – i.e. HTC, Samsung, LG, Dell – where they share in the blame for your dissatisfaction.

Even if you chose to stay salty about Nokia taking care of Nokia Lumia customers, it’s not going stop Nokia from adding value for consumers who chose Nokia Lumia devices, and it certainly isn’t going to wipe the huge grin from Nokia Lumia users faces : )
Anonymous

@Favbrowser….Please stop! HTC and Samsung have both been in the WP system since 2010, and they’ve done zilch of this caliber for the consumers who purchased their WP devices.

Nokia has been on the WP ship for 7 months, and have added more value for Nokia Lumia customers in this short period of time than both HTC and Samsung WP customers combined. And that is just with Nokia apps alone! These exclusive titles are just icing on the cake :)

Turn your bitterness, envy, jealousy, and dissatisfaction towards the oem of your WP device – i.e. HTC, Samsung, LG, Dell – where they share in the blame for your dissatisfaction.

Even if you chose to stay salty about Nokia taking care of Nokia Lumia customers, it’s not going stop Nokia from adding value for consumers who chose Nokia Lumia devices, and it certainly isn’t going to wipe the huge grin from Nokia Lumia users faces : )
http://vikas-patidar.myopenid.com/ Vikas Patidar

Apps are good but when you will bring some of the most used features from the basic Nokia phones. file downloading in browser and file sharing etc.
http://vikas-patidar.myopenid.com/ Vikas Patidar

Apps are good but when you will bring some of the most used features from the basic Nokia phones. file downloading in browser and file sharing etc.
http://profile.yahoo.com/2NXNG5K33E5XT5XLVFYDIF4XOU adil

Hi,

am I right in thinking these apps will be free? like the exclusive Nokia apps made by Nokia? or will we have to pay for them?
http://profile.yahoo.com/2NXNG5K33E5XT5XLVFYDIF4XOU adil

Hi,

am I right in thinking these apps will be free? like the exclusive Nokia apps made by Nokia? or will we have to pay for them?
- http://conversations.nokia.com Ian Delaney
  
  I don’t have all the information, but I suspect there will be a mix. I am pretty sure the EA games will command a price, for example, but that (say) Groupon will be free.
- http://conversations.nokia.com Ian Delaney
  
  I don’t have all the information, but I suspect there will be a mix. I am pretty sure the EA games will command a price, for example, but that (say) Groupon will be free.
Shah Faisal

I need skype in background, Fring, SIP support, a file explorer with FTP, Box client, …… :(
Shah Faisal

I need skype in background, Fring, SIP support, a file explorer with FTP, Box client, …… :(