Bangkok--1 Apr--AIS Thailand market leader in BlackBerry Pushmail services, today announces the availability of new applications to cater for the needs of consumer and business users. Popular applications such as: FaceBook, Yahoo Messenger, Google Map, Google Talk, WorldMate & Thai-G which it can be downloaded for FREE. To cater for the large Japanese community in Thailand, AIS is launching Namimail which allows BlackBerry users to read and write email in native Japanese language. Mr. Yip Hon Mun, Vice President - Enterprise Marketing & Solution AIS, disclosed “The phenomenon success of the BlackBerry for business users has spilled over to consumer world since beginning last year when we launch the popular Pearl 8100. Our customers have been asking for more applications besides email. We listened and are pleased to bring popular social networking services such as Facebook, Yahoo messenger and Google Talk to Thailand. We are also launching productivity tools such as WorldMate and Google Map. All these are available FREE from AIS.” In response to the feedback from our Thai speaking customers and expatriate communities, AIS announces the newly improved Thai language capability for AIS users and the Japanese language BlackBerry Pushmail. “We recognize that English is not the only language AIS customers communicate. We are please to announce the availability of a new Thai language application with improved capability for reading SMS text and schedule. We have also worked with NTT-Docomo to bring the popular Namimail for our Japanese customers to read and input Japanese text.” The enhancement for Thai language is offered FREE as part of AIS continued effort to provide better value and services to our customers. Namimail is available for a monthly subscription of 399 baht. Namimail works with popular models such as: 8707, 8100 and 8800 (All models are available from AIS). For customers traveling to Japan and Korea, Namimails works with the UMTS/3G 8707 BlackBerry Smartphone. For more information, please contact 1149 for more information. The following links 1. WorldMate: Open for the free download to view world time with 5 station setup, automatic daylight saving time adjustment, 5-day in advance global weather forecast and Currency Converter that converts all foreign currencies. If interested, visit http://www.wmlive.com for a free download. 2. Namimail: Available for the first time in Thailand, Japanese email users simply apply for AIS service and download software via the BlackBerry at http://www.namikiteru.com/namimailOTA/index.html 3. Thai-G: A Thai made software enabling you to read email, SMS, schedules in Thai. AIS customers can get free software to enhance functionalities. Visit www.thai-g.com for more information. 4. Yahoo Messenger: Enjoy chat, quick text and image message anywhere anytime. For a free download, visit http://blackberry.com/yahoodownload 5. Google Map: Help you find places and your positions from the map in the BlackBerry. Download at http://www.google.com/gmm for free of charge. 6. Google Talk: Log onto http://www.blackberry.com/googletalk for free download to send and receive instant text messages with others members of Google Talk community, while on the go. 7. Face Book: the popular Social Network that connects you and your friends at all time. Free download software at http://blackberry.com/facebook/mobiledownload The Applications are now available for downloads. Contact AIS Call Center 1149 for more information. Further information please contact AIS PR Waralee Jirachaisri, 0818112412 [email protected]