Nokia to bring Zynga games to Asha Touch phones

MANILA, Philippines - Nokia has announced it will bring Zynga’s global hit games Draw Something and Zynga Poker to Nokia Asha Touch devices in the third quarter as part of its partnership announced in summer.

Nokia Asha Touch users can soon challenge their friends to a round of the popular social drawing and guessing game or enjoy their own virtual poker match.

Zynga’s Draw Something and Zynga Poker will both be free to download from the Nokia Store.

The announcement reinforces Nokia’s commitment to delivering must-have app and gaming experiences to consumers of Nokia Series 40 devices, including the Nokia Asha Touch range.

Nokia Asha Touch users already enjoy a variety of mobile gaming experiences enabled by global partners such as EA, Gameloft, Rovio, Namco Bandai, and now, Zynga.

“It’s great to expand our offering of Zynga games to deliver more blockbuster titles across our portfolio of mobile devices, giving consumers great choice and tremendous value,” said Bryan Biniak, Nokia vice president and general manager for global partnering and application development.

“With premium design, powerful hardware and outstanding gaming capabilities, we are redefining what consumers expect from today’s feature phone experience,” Biniak said.

Nokia Asha Touch devices have been designed to provide a rich, fast and engaging experience to consumers:

• The Nokia Asha 311 is a fast and fluid 3.5G capacitive touch-screen device, powered by a 1GHz processor to provide a great Internet experience.

• The Nokia Asha 305 is a fun and affordable phone featuring the exclusive Easy Swap dual SIM.

• Its sister, the Nokia Asha 306, is a single SIM model, and becomes Nokia’s most affordable Wi-Fi handset to date.

The devices feature the new, fully redesigned Asha Touch user interface, which combines proven ease-of-use from Nokia’s heritage with new, digital design innovations.

The cloud-accelerated Nokia Browser 2.0 makes Internet surfing up to three times faster and 85 percent cheaper than comparable browsers, and is available to download for free from the Nokia Store.

Recently, the Nokia Store broke the five billion downloads landmark. From January to April this year, 42 percent of all content downloaded from the Nokia Store was delivered to Series 40 devices, including the Asha Touch range.

To date, more than 500 Nokia developers have apps which have achieved more than one million downloads, while India Games, Pico Brothers and Inode have all achieved more than 100 million downloads.