Smartphone and PocketPC users now can easily download and watch videos with HandHeld Entertainment’s new ZVUE.mobi. The micro Web site features 25 free user-generated videos that are available for downloading and playback onto a Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows 2003 device over a carrier network.




Furthermore, anyone with a Web-enabled smartphone or PocketPC running Windows Media Player 10 Mobile can now log onto ZVUE.mobi from their device and download or watch one of the thousands of videos they've already saved or purchased from ZVUE.com.

“We said we’d launch a Windows Mobile 5.0 micro site by the end of the year and we did it,” said Jeff Oscodar, president and chief executive officer of HandHeld Entertainment, in a press release. “The ZVUE.mobi site makes it possible for any registered user of ZVUE.com to buy a video on a PC and then download and watch that video on a Web-enabled smartphone or PocketPC. As a result, we now have thousands of premium videos available for millions of cell phone users.”

According to the release, HandHeld Entertainment now has nearly 12,000 videos available to its users through its network of Web sites. These include premium music videos, anime features, television shows, movies, cartoons, independent films, documentaries, news, entertainment and sports programs from companies ranging from Sony BMG to IMG Media and from Canadian Broadcast Corp. to Fun Little Movies. HandHeld Entertainment also features free user-generated and user-submitted video selections and other forms of media.

“Additionally, we’ve made 25 of our top user-generated videos immediately available for free download and playback on these same Web-enabled portable devices,” said Oscodar. “This list of free user-generated videos available for smartphones and PocketPCs will grow weekly as we add more free videos to ZVUE.mobi. Viewing great user-generated videos on-the-go on mobile devices is something that we believe our users want.”

HandHeld Entertainment is a digital-media-to-go company with its ZVUE family of mass-market portable media players priced at mass-market prices. The company owns a network of Web sites containing premium video selections and free downloadable media selections, including ZVUE.com, the Free STUFF! section of ZVUE.com.

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