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Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Bokilur, provider of audio books for phones
Located in the same "telecom valley" as Abiro, Bokilur is a provider of a service for listening to audio books and viewing comic strips via your mobile phone.The approach is interesting: Books are not downloaded, but rather streamed to the phone. This means the phone is not filled up with book files. Also, the consumer pays only for the book, not the data transfer (Telenor and Tele2Comviq only as of now). It's possible to listen to snippets of books for free, and there are also a few completely free books.
The service is currently provisioned via Telenor, Tele2Comviq, Telia and Halebop.
The user downloads a free Bokilur application (in Java) to the phone, and all interaction with the service is done via the application. Use is intuitive, and there's no risk of getting lost.
More details on Bokilur next week, so stay tuned.
P.S. Bokilur means "book in handset" D.S.
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