Empire Awards clips available on Sony Ericsson phones

LONDON - Owners of Sony Ericsson P900 or P800 smart-phones will be able to stream and watch shortlisted clips for the Empire Film Awards on their phones for the first time this year.

Sony Ericsson will sponsor the Empire Film Awards for the second time this February and smart-phone owners will be able to watch the clips for the Sony Ericsson Best Scene award as MPEG4 clips on their phones. They will be available .

Contenders for the award include: '8 Mile' for the scene "the final battle"; 'Kill Bill Vol 1' for "the bride meets Vernita Green"; Brazilian hit 'City of God' for "the kid chooses between getting shot in the hand or the foot"; and 'Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King' for the scene "ride of the Rohirrim".

The free-to-view clips will be provided by .

The P900 was launched in November 2003 as the successor to the P800 and has video recording capability, a 65,000-colour screen, widescreen format, a camera phone and PDA.

Peter Marsden, marketing director at Sony Ericsson, said: "The marrying of film and the P900 brand is a perfect fit and we're proud to be sponsoring the Empire Awards again this year."

The awards take place on February 4 at The Dorchester, London. The awards ceremony claims to be the only one voted for by the cinema-going public.

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