Launch of Singapore’s First Mobile Phone Audio Guide

The National Museum of Singapore becomes the first cultural attraction to adopt Walk The Talk, a mobile phone audio guide for indoor and outdoor exhibits. Just dial 6622-6226 and you’re in!

Singapore (PRWEB) December 8, 2005 -- Mobile Adventures Limited has launched Walk the Talk™ in Singapore. The service will allow visitors to explore the National Museum of Singapore and its fascinating exhibits in an entirely new way by dialing into fun and entertaining narratives any time of day, 7 days a week. A temporary demonstration of the audio guide was launched to coincide with the completion of the exterior façade of the restored museum. The full audio guide will be launched in 2006.

The mobile phone museum guide offers all the benefits of a traditional museum audio guide plus several unique enhanced features. Walk the Talk™ will be the world’s first museum audio guide to feature indoor and outdoor exhibits, interaction allowing visitors to leave their own comments as well as listen to those of others, MMS postcards, SMS coupons and multiple languages.

A sample offering of the mobile phone audio guide is currently available by dialing +65 6622 6226. Dial in to hear stories about the new museum’s three primary architectural motifs: the beautifully restored colonial era dome, a glass drum that is the modern interpretation of the old dome and a magnificent glass connector that seamlessly links the old and new wings of the museum. The audio guide will seek to entertain and educate with a lively mix of popular and curatorial narratives, available via the audio guide’s hierarchical menu system. Co-founder Stefan White said: “We wanted to create an entertaining audio guide that would get everyone, residents and visitors, to share in a conversation about Singapore’s past and its heritage. The one device nearly all Singaporeans carry with them at all times is the mobile phone – what better way to share stories and invite listeners to participate with their own thoughts?”

Walk the Talk™ is available for free to anyone dialing from any phone. Until Decmber 12, you can simply dial 6622-6226; customers only have to pay for the cost of a standard local phone call. The full audio guide will be re-launched in the second quarter of 2006. Walk the Talk™ also operates cell phone walking tours in Hong Kong and Macau. The walks in Hong Kong are sold up-front for US$5.00 and the walks in Macau are free to anyone on the CTM network.

About Mobile Adventures

Mobile Adventures Ltd. is the creator of the Walk the Talk™ audio guides. The company was co-founded by Stefan White and David Wong in 2003 to provide an entertaining new way to explore and interpret the fascinating urban landscape of the world’s greatest cities. More information on the company or the service may be found at www.mobileadventures.com and www.walkthetalk.hk.

For further information, please contact:
Stefan White, Co-Founder and Director
Mobile Adventures
+852 8198-0096

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