Mobile Vending Machines
..self-service content machines that download content into mobile phones..
Mobile Vending Machines
nSpace wants you to buy your games like you buy your Coke, from a vend.
March 25, 2004 - SmartServ Online, Inc. announced today that its subsidiary, nSpace, has reached an agreement with Merit Industries (a touch-screen device manufacturer) to develop and introduce self-service content machines that download content into mobile phones. That's right -- a vending machine for games and ringtones. The future is now, after all.
nSpace, a large mobile content provider, will place the vending machines in wireless retailers, airports and train stations, restaurants and mall, and electronics outlets. Expected content on the machines? Straight from nSpace: "American Idol," "The Matrix," Eminem, Britney Spears, 50 Cent, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, 2Pac, Snoop Dogg and Frank Sinatra; images from MAXIM and Corbis; and games, such as Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, NHL Power Shot Hockey, Spiderman, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, Charlie's Angels, Q*Bert, and Rayman.
"Personalizing mobile phones was previously only available through a
phone handset or the Web, which limited opportunities for consumers and
content owners," said Mike Stemple, nReach's President and Founder.
"nReach vending machines will create new revenue opportunities for
content owners -- movie distributors, record companies, and game
developers -- by reaching customers with ringtones, graphics and games
who would not otherwise be exposed to such content."
Wireless: Mobile Vending Machines
Posted by Craig at March 26, 2004 02:37 PM