BBC World Service has announced the availability of new apps which will give consumers access to its range of multilingual radio news content via Nokia’s Series 40 devices, including the Nokia Asha smartphone range.
The apps offer up-to-date news content from the websites spanning 11 language services of BBC World Service: BBC Arabic, BBC Brasil (in Portuguese), BBC Chinese, BBC Hindi, BBC Indonesia, BBC Mundo (in Spanish), BBC Russian, BBC Turkce, BBC Ukrainian, BBC Urdu and BBC Vietnamese.
In addition to reading all the latest news updates via the app, users of the Chinese, Indonesian and Arabic apps can also listen to radio news bulletins in these languages.
The apps will be available on the installed base of existing Series 40 devices, in addition to the expanding Nokia Asha device rang, including the recently announced Nokia Asha 308 and Nokia Asha 309 smartphones.
