In a unique tie-up between Indiatimes and Mobio, consumers will get LIVE UPDATES on their mobile handsets FREE OF COST. Fading into history are the days of getting live scores by SMS, or even with a browser on a mobile phone. No long delays and anxious moments to find out if Dravid scored that century or Ashraf's wicket has fallen. You now have live, ball-by-ball scores streaming at you on your GPRS-enabled mobile.
Indiatimes.com and Mobio Networks of USA have partnered to bring cricket lovers a cool, completely free cricket portal that helps fans stay in touch with matches as they happen. With this portal, called Indiatimes Cricket Station, cricket lovers can use popular model mobile phones to get realtime score updates, worm-charts, wagon-wheels, match schedules, player statistics, standings, and scorecards for all matches - ODI or Test - team rosters, player profiles and statistics.
Indiatimes.com is making this available on most GSM carriers – Airtel, Vodafone, MTNL, BPL, Idea!, Spice and BSNL by a simple download when you SMS LIVE to 58888. The Cricket Portal is being offered free throughout the India-Bangladesh series (nominal data charges from your carrier do apply). The good news for Airtel customers is that if they use the app via Airtel Live, there are no data charges.
From the very first screen when the application starts, until you decide to exit, the experience is very rich and immersive. A snapshot and scorecard detail in the very first screen at start-up provides complete details of a match in progress.
This includes elegant and well-designed screens that provide the user with the current cricket score and the number of overs, run rate (run rate required, if applicable), batsmen at the crease and their scores, the partnership between the current batsmen, the gist of what is going in the current over as well as the bowling analysis of the bowlers. This is not easy to get through any other medium available today.
How to install - Free download
Subscribers send keyword LIVE to 58888 and receive a WAP link from which they can download the application the first time.
When a user accesses the WAP link, the site will determine the cellphone model that the user has and allow them to download the appropriate version of the application.
There is no charge for downloading this application except data charges applicable as per the operator tariff
How to Download - Free download
-SMS LIVE to 58888 and receive a WAP link to download the application
-Go to http://wap.indiatimes.com/ on the browser in your mobile phone to download the application
