social entertainment mobile app in India launched by RockeTalk
US based RockeTalk has launched it’s social entertainment mobile app in India.
RockeTalk is mobile based social entertainment application on Java and Symbian based phones and is supported on ~50 models. The application features include:
* Social networking
* Rich Multimedia Messaging
* Communities
* Social media (UGC sharing)
* IM aggregation and chat
* Content and premium services
* Music and video downloads
Essentially, RockeTalk lets you mashup your voice, videos, pictures and share with friends/communities etc.
RockeTalk is founded by Rajiv Kumar who earlier started Widcomm and sold it off to Broadcom. The startup has received $7.1mn funding from iSherpa Ventures, EDF Ventures and Mission Ventures.
RockeTalk needs to really go fast on signing deals with operators as well as media companies (their direct competitor is MobMe).
Source: Pluggd
[...] RockeTalk, a leading Mobile 2.0 provider of easy-to-use, mobile social applications, announced a key partnership with LG Electronics India in which the RockeTalk mobile social networking application will be pre-loaded on all new LG KT610 and KF750 (Secret) mobile phone models. These LG phones, pre-loaded with RockeTalk, are already available to consumers through LG retailers in India in November. [...]