ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, October 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Spb Software, world's leading Windows Mobile applications developer, announces first commercial implementation of its Spb Online - a set of premium online services for 3G networks, designed to stimulate subscriber uptake of streaming content on handsets. In close cooperation with Sky Link - Russia's largest CDMA mobile operator - Spb Software delivered SkyTouch - a customized Spb Mobile Shell-based UI solution, integrated with Spb Online and tuned to local preferences of SkyLink subscribers. SkyTouch comes preinstalled on Sky Link's new 3G-smartphone AnyData ASP-505, and acts as a clear single entry point to device features and an array of advanced online services, ranging from Mobile TV, to online games, to local GPS-based navigation, to popular social networks.

The AnyData ASP-505 is expected to hit the vast Russian market in the beginning of November, taking advantage of the fast-paces roll-out of next-generation mobile networks by Sky Link. Today, 80% of our subscribers get access to mobile internet with USB-modems and only 20% of them browse the Internet from their handsets. Our new smartphone, fitted with SkyTouch by Spb Software, targets this growing segment of customers, by turning their handsets into very user-friendly, powerful, but compact mobile Internet-centers, - comments Albert Safiullin, Deputy Director in Commerce, CJSC Sky Link.

I believe that Sky Link, as one of the most innovative players on the Russian mobile communications market, is strategically right by offering subscribers not just devices equipped with fast Internet access, but devices with preinstalled online services, which facilitate the use of such fast access, - comments Vassili Philippov, Spb Software House COO.

In less than a month of open market presence, Spb Online supported over 1,000,000 of Mobile TV viewing sessions, over 160,000 Online Games sessions, in over 50 countries.

View screenshots and a video demonstration of SkyTouch interface and Spb Online package for SkyLink here: http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/enterprise/skylink_anydata_asp505.html

About Spb Software (http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com)

Spb Software is the global leader in the design of Windows Mobile applications, with RD and design centers in Russia and Thailand, and presence in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and USA. Spb combines a unique line of popular consumer products and cooperation with the world's leading OEMs and carriers, such as ASUSTeK, BenQ Siemens, E-TEN, Fly, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Gigabyte, HTC, O2, Optimus, Palm, Pharos, SingTel, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Swisscom Mobile, Toshiba, T-Mobile, and VimpelCom.

Media contact: Victoria Krasilshikova, email: victoria@softspb.com .

Media contact: Victoria Krasilshikova, email: victoria@softspb.com . Phone: +7-921-916-19-07.