With an estimated 50 million capable handsets in use, Oplayo intend to bring Windows Media 9 streaming to existing 2.5 and 3G phones.
Oplayo currently offer the popular Oplayer application for Symbian mobile phones which offers MVQ compression and throughput from about 10kbs up.
The Java-based Oplayer will adopt WM9 and they will be releasing a number of tools to support content providers – including encoding software, server software and a playlist generator.