The main features of the application include:
- Live games: users can track the main events of live games, in near real-time
- Statistics: current classification, top scorers, calendar and results from all matches
- Football news, organized by category
- Contest: users can register and place bets on the results for upcoming games, aiming for a weekly prize and later for a final grand prize
- Links to WAP sites from football partners
- Downloads: users may browse Optimus football mobile content catalog and purchase items (purchase options available to Optimus clients only)
- Alerts: users can browse and subscribe to Optimus football SMS/MMS Alerts (subscriptions available to Optimus clients only)
- Newsletter: subscribe to a newsletter with Football information
- Send to a Friend: the ability to directly recommend the application to a friend, conveying the application with a controlled viral effect
- Application-wide search: allows the user to browse through all the different content types offered
- Cross features
- Interactive advertisements, where users can receive additional information about a specific ad. This information is sent by SMS when the user exits the application
- Scrolling Ticker, with live game updates and other soccer related highlights
- Quick-jump menu, presenting users with an easy navigation between each area of the application.
The application can be accessed through the browser of the mobile phone (no need to install) or can be installed on Series 60 devices. FUTMOBILE is a networked application which can be accessed from the network of any mobile carrier or through Wi-Fi networks, via the following website http://futebolflash.optimus.pt/.
For more details visit the official FUTMOBILE web page and press release (in Portuguese only).
This application is a result from Present Technologies continuing strategy in research and development of innovative mobile solutions.