New Media Player for Windows Mobile by Kinoma
Kinoma has just released a new media player, Kinoma Play which they say promises to unify media on your smartphone and on the internet in a seamless whole, making it the first true mobile media browser.
Apparently the result of 3 years of effort, the software promises simplicity in media organization and playback, but the jewel of their creation is the built-in Kinoma Guide, the most comprehensive catalog of the freshest, most diverse mobile media available.
Kinoma Play provides on-demand access from your phone to an unparalleled range of content:
- Media files – Play the music, video, pictures, panoramas and audio books on your phone
- Media services – Share your Audible.com, Flickr, iDisk, Live365, and YouTube accounts between your phone and computer
- Internet – Explore a terabyte of constantly updated, free streaming podcasts, music, radio stations, web-cams and audio books from thousands of providers including ClearChannel, CNN, NPR, Reuters, SHOUTcast, TUNED.mobi, and SomaFM
- Home PC – Access the gigabytes of music, video and pictures on your home PC from your phone – both on-demand streaming and download, using the Orb service.
“We created Kinoma Play to make it fun and easy for people to discover all the great media their phones can play,” said Peter Hoddie, co-founder and CEO of Kinoma. “By combining media playback and browsing, Kinoma Play frees users to explore an unprecedented range of media content.”
Among the key innovations in Kinoma Play:
- Streaming podcasts – Instead of tediously downloading and syncing, podcasts stream on-demand, so users are always up to date
- “Media First” user interface – User interface elements all-but-disappear when viewing photos, listening to music, or watching video to keep the focus on the media
- High quality YouTube – Kinoma Play provides high quality YouTube video by playing the same feeds delivered to your PC, when bandwidth permits
- Integrated search – Search your phone, your home PC and the Internet to find what you want
- Menu Pod – A beautifully animated dynamic menu providing fast access to many powerful features
“Kinoma Play offers the first streaming mobile access to your Audible.com account, so whether you want to listen to books you already purchased or are buying new ones, you get instant gratification — they are available immediately on your phone without connecting to your PC,” said Will Lopes, VP, Business Development, Audible.com.
Pricing & Availability
Kinoma Play is available at the Kinoma web site (www.kinoma.com) for a one-time payment of $29.99. The software is compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0 and higher.
Kinoma is also introducing Kinoma FreePlay as a free download. Kinoma FreePlay shares the same gorgeous user interface and simplicity of use with Kinoma Play. It is a great MP3 player and photo viewer and provides access to much of the Kinoma Guide including Audible.com, Flickr, Live365, Reuters, SHOUTcast, YouTube, and thousands of streaming podcasts.
Kinoma has produced some slick videos that illustrate the features of the software. See them after the break.
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very good
I purchased Kinoma thinking that every service that is inside of it, will be unlimited indefinitely, but sooo not true.
Live 365 and Audible trials out after a while.
what a fucking rip.
I’m so pissed that I did not stay with the free version.
Here is another WM blog related to UK:
Windows Mobile Phones UK
The “Free” super limited version for my Kaiser worked fine for shoutcast radio talk, but it wouldn’t TURN OFF even with the ” X ” on Today screen.
Since I wasn’t using it, I really wanted it “OFF” and NOT sucking juice out of my battery, needlessly.
But like most so-call FREE versions…. rather than have a FULL version to TRY for 30 days or so…. that works….. to many software developers/ marketers give out a very Limited or malfunctioning version for the perspective customers to TRY, and most just move on to something else rather than BUY the maybe less malfunctioning “upgraded” version….. NOT real good marketing to state the least….
As most people are NOT going to BUY another version of the same software, if that freeware is not working…..
And IF it was FREE …BETA version, with some bugs, like not shutting OFF, the software provider should make it REAL easy to make a workaround, and or easy reporting of the “BUGS” in the “beta” version…
I’d give it a 5 on the scale of 10. And a whole lot more if it could shut OFF……
The experience with free stuff is that mostly it appears to be not so free after all. It’s a nice attempt to trigger people into bying stuff, but it doesn’t work all the time. Be carefull with those ‘free things’ guys!
Is it advisable to buy one used?? I see them on amazon??
@Tom: Exactly! More often people use false advertisements to have sales only to find out they are losing more customers than acquiring some. Nowadays, free things are really not free.
@debbiep: It depends. If you know exactly the current state of the refurbished item you are going to buy,then go for it.
Live 365 does not work that well for me, how were you runnin git?
I think you always have to be carefull purchasing used stuff. Sometimes it’s still in really good condition, but in my experience, mostly it isn’t. I’d prefer to spend some extra dollars (or euros, for that matter) and buy new. But sometimes you indeed can have a lucky day 😉
It’s difficult to find good, free stuff, if not impossible. Mostly it’s best you just pay for the stuff you need…