Hands-On Mobile is a wireless entertainment company, established in 2001. The company develops, publishes and distributes mobile content via network operators and portals. It offers its content in or via

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, BREW, SMS, MMS, and WAP in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Czech, Chinese and Korean. Hands-On Mobile is a private company headquartered in

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. It has further offices in

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and

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(UK),

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(Spain),

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(Germany),

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and

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(China), and

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(Brazil). Hands-On Mobile's investors include eFund,

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, Institutional Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners.

History

Hands-On Mobile was co-founded by Daniel Kranzler, Christophe Watkins, Eric Bilange, David Bluhm, wireless industry pioneers. Hands-On Mobile grew organically as well as through business combination when it acquired several leading mobile entertainment developer and technology companies: nGame Ltd and Blue Beck of the UK, Mobilemode Ltd European operations, FingerTwitch (a U.S. mobile technology company), and two mobile entertainment content development companies in China. In 2008, Hands On sold its Korean operations to EA, and sold its European operations to Connect 2 Media. Then in 2010 Hands On sold its US applications business to GoTV.

Senior officers

* Judy Wade, CEO

Partners

Notable customers

AT&T AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas. It is the world's largest telecommunications company by revenue and the third largest provider of mobile te ...

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, Bell Mobility,

Notable media partners

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, '' Billboard'',

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, NBA, and

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Published applications

*Acquaria *Alien Fish Exchange *Amazing Spider-Man: Webslinger *Barry Bonds Home run History *Baseball 2005 by CBS Sportsline *

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Beach Volleyball * Blade: Trinity *

California Games ''California Games'' is a 1987 sports video game originally released by Epyx for the Apple II and Commodore 64, and ported to other home computers and video game consoles. Branching from their '' Summer Games'' and '' Winter Games'' series, t ...

* Call of Duty * Call of Duty 2 * Call of Duty 3 * CBS Sportsline Track & Field * Chip's Challenge *

Connect 4 Connect may refer to: Music Albums * ''Connect'' (album), an album by Australian rock band Sick Puppies *''Connect'', album by Mark Farina *''Tha Connect'', a 2009 album by Willy Northpole *''Connect'', a 2009 album by Dave Schulz (musician) ...

*Darkest Fear: Grim Oak's Hospital (US) * Ducati Extreme *Duckshot * Elektra: Assassin *Face-Off

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Hockey * Fantastic Four *

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*Gold Mahjong * Guitar Hero III Mobile *Gumball 3000 *Heroes Lore * IHRA Drag Racing *Impossible Mission * Iron Man *IQ Academy *Largo Winch * LEGO Bricks *

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* LEGO World Soccer *

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Outlaws * Ludo *

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Board Games * Monopoly Tycoon *

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Football 1st down and 10 * Operation *

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*Santa Claus Revolution *Scratch City Pool *Sudoku Garden * Star Trek Nemesis *Summer Games *Super Putt *The Elder Scrolls Travels: Stormhold *

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: Rampage *

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* Top Gun * Top Gun 2 * Top Gun: Gulf Crisis *Tour Championship Tennis by

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*Treasure Chest Slots * True Crime: New York City * True Crime: Streets of LA *Ultimate Spider-Man *Universal Monsters: Dracula (a/k/a Vampire Bloodline) *Winter Games *

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: Wacky Challenge *

7-Card Stud *

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* X-Men 2: Battle *

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: Last Stand *

: Rise of Apocalypse * X-Men 3 Mindmaze

References

External links

* {{official website, http://www.handson.com/ Mobile software Mobile game companies Entertainment companies established in 2001 Software companies established in 2001 Telecommunications companies established in 2001