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For Immediate Release
Firefly Mobile Chooses PassAlong Networks to Power Age Appropriate MP3 Store Easy-to-Use MP3 Store Targets Youth Market, Features Age Appropriate Catalog Franklin, Tenn. — November 5, 2007 — Firefly Mobile, the first pay-as-you-go service provider to design mobile phones especially for kids and tweens, announced a partnership with StoreBlocks™, the music distribution platform offered by music distribution developer PassAlong Networks. StoreBlocks powers an MP3 store for Firefly's flyPhone™ with an age-appropriate music catalog that targets tweens. The Firefly Mobile MP3 store will offer more than 2.1 million MP3s and will give buyers the most flexibility and interoperability available. "Everyone is trying to crack the code of supplying music to cell phone markets," said Dave Jaworski, co-founder and CEO of PassAlong Networks. "We agree with Firefly Mobile's approach to convenience and interoperability and we believe that the phone will be an important music discovery tool in the Connected Consumer™ experience." This model will emulate the most commonly used method for getting music onto cell phones today - side loading - a process that provides the most flexibility and interoperability. While a cell phone is a great tool to experience music, it is not the easiest place to store and manage a digital media library. Firefly and PassAlong want to provide an interconnected service between PC and mobile phone that makes it easy to connect the flyPhone™ with music. "The youth market is going to figure this out before anyone else does," said Patrick Marry, CEO of Firefly Mobile. "We are listening to our customers and letting them determine our direction because they are the ones dictating the needs of the mobile music experience. To tweens music is a must have and we are thrilled to be able to include music in our store."
About Firefly Mobile The original Firefly Blue phone is winner of the 2007 Red Herring 100 Award, 2006 Consumer Electronic Association "Best of Innovations" Award, 2006 Kid Power Breakout Award and 2005 CTIA Wireless Widget Award for Coolest New Wireless Device. The company's products are targeted to children from ages 5-12 and are available at major retailers in the U.S. including Toys R Us, Target, Kmart, BarnesandNoble.com, and Walmart.com. Firefly Mobile presently manufactures cell phones for the U.S., Latin America, Europe and Australia. For more information, please visit www.fireflymobile.com.
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