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Skype on your Nokia phone
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Skype and Nokia announced a partnership that will bring the Skype experience to your mobile phone. The integration is tight–super intuitive and simple. Your address book shows who is online at the moment, and through your menu you can send instant messages or initiate skype-skype voice calls. Sweet.
Only on the Nseries phones for now. Stay tuned on progress.
Google’s mobile location app ala Loopt, but better
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Google just released an application, Google Latitude, that lets cell phone users broadcast their location to their friends. Unlike Loopt and Dodgeball, they baked in much better privacy controls. Not only can you select exactly who gets to see your location, you can also customize which location they get to see. So it’s not as daunting.
Your location is tracked on a Google map and friends can follow it either on their phone or computer. Everyone predicted location-based software would explode in 2008. It didn’t really. But better, more customizable privacy controls will probably help. I think what would help more is giving people a reason or occasion to use the software. Maybe a function where you could send those people invites from the app to meet for a drink. Or photos if you are letting people know where you are on a tour. Just some thought-starters.
Location, location, location
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Thanks Mike for this awesome find:
PSFK highlighted a new iPhone app called Alocola that basically adds location awareness to websites (with your permission) as opposed to just the iPhone & its apps.
Must-have mobile apps
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Opera Mini.
Opera Mini is a free application that lets you bring the full web experience to your phone. The app uses a few tricks to overcome the shortcoming of your hardware. Instead of cramming a full-sized page on to your little screen, it presents an overview of a page and you can easily zoom in and out. This won it people’s choice award for best mobile browser.
Google Maps.
No real need to explain here. It is always useful to get directions, look at maps and have a GPS system you can carry with you.
Gmail Java.
Super intuitive and easy to use. Features IMAP sync (great for transfers between mailboxes) and attachment viewing.
Fring.
Fring is a free mobile VoIP software, that lets you connect to all your IM services and talk for free when connected to 3G or Wi-Fi.
Shozu.
This app lets you to send your videos and photos from your phone to the Web–Flickr, YouTube, Facebook. And you can do it with just one click.
Neoreader.
Neoreader allows you to unlock the content or information stored in QR codes.
Tags: mobile
The truth about SMS
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According to the CEO of HipCricket (pioneer mobile marketing agency), SMS is still the wave of the future–even among new mobile platforms such as QR codes and location based software. Here are some interesting, eye-opening statistics he provides about text messaging today:
- Text messaging is the fastest growing communications channel in history
- This year alone there will be more that 380 billion texts sent in the U.S and that number is growing exponentially
- Today, the average age of a texter is 38 years old
- Contrary to belief the most active text messaging demographic falls in the 35-54 year old group, not teenagers
- The 45-61 year old age group is the fastest growing segment
- last year, more than half of mobile users who received a mobile ad responded
The full interview is available here.
