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Foreca's FlashWeather Asia application launched in Singapore

Helsinki, Finland - FlashWeather Asia is the first Foreca weather application available for consumers in Singapore. FlashWeather Asia is one of the applications in the entertainment bundle pack for the Nokia 6131 in Singapore.

The entertainment pack contains exciting applications on a micro SD card and is one of innovative way of distributing mobile applications to consumers in Singapore. FlashWeather Asia will come pre-loaded on the Nokia 6131 MMC card, which will allow Singaporean Nokia 6131 users to check weather conditions any time, anywhere from their mobile phone.

Foreca FlashWeather Asia application combines the award-winning SpotWeather and WeatherMaps applications in a single interface. FlashWeather features the Foreca mobile weather products SpotWeather, Satellite Images, Current Conditions, WeatherMaps, Temperature and Precipitation maps.

Launched in Singapore on 27 May 2006, the Nokia 6131 infuses style with a good sense of functionality. A quadband phone, the Nokia 6131 is all about ease of use, with the innovative one-touch push-to-open design specially integrated to enhance one-hand messaging, dialling and answering calls. With a host of excellent multimedia capabilities like the brilliant 16.7 million "true colour" main display, 1.3 mega-pixel camera and video recorder, the Nokia 6131 captures comfort, convenience with a touch of sophistication.

"Using Foreca's latest weather applications is like surfing on the Internet. FlashWeather is easy to use and it can show the informative content with more entertaining way. In Foreca, we think that Flash Lite applications are here to stay. This technology brings mobile phones closer to Internet," says Tiina Asula, sales director Foreca Ltd. "It is great to be a Forum Nokia PRO developer to get these excellent opportunities to show our weather know-how to the world."

Foreca has provided mobile weather services since 1997. Its mobile weather services include sms, WAP, mms and 3G weather movies for its clients worldwide. Foreca started creating weather applications for mobile phones using Adobe's Flash Lite technology in spring 2005.

About Foreca
Foreca is a private weather service company based in Helsinki, Finland. Foreca provides weather services for Internet, mobile, industries and media worldwide.

About Nokia
A market leader in the cellular industry in Asia Pacific, Nokia provides innovative, industry leading and market-relevant technology and products to around 20 diverse markets in the region.

Nokia is a world leader in mobile communications, driving the growth and sustainability of the broader mobility industry. Nokia connects people to each other and the information that matters to them with easy-to-use and innovative products like mobile phones, devices and solutions for imaging, games, media and businesses. Nokia provides equipment, solutions and services for network operators and corporations.

You may visit the Nokia website at www.nokia.com.sg or the Nokia Group website at http://www.nokia.com.

About Forum Nokia
Nokia's global developer program, Forum Nokia connects developers to tools, technical information, support, and distribution channels they can use to build and market applications around the globe. From offices in the U.S, Europe, Japan, China and Singapore, Forum Nokia provides technical and business development support to developers and operators to assist them in achieving their goal of successfully launching applications and services to consumers and enterprises. More information is available at www.forum.nokia.com.

For more information:
Tiina Asula, Sales Director, Foreca Ltd
e-mail: tiina.asula@foreca.com, mobile +358 40 558 1368