Handmark unveils Pocket Express for the UK market
By Dusan Belic on Friday, February 15th, 2008 at 1:59 PM PST In Announcements, Content, Mobile World Congress 2008, Services
Handmark announced the new UK versions of its award-winning Pocket Express news and information service for Symbian S60 smartphone users.
Tailored specifically for the UK market, the new Pocket Express offers free access to essential BBC news, global weather and minute-by-minute score reports for UK and European footballer fans.
In addition, the premium service offering includes updates from global financial markets, flight status for more than 75,000 international destinations from over 3,500 airports, cinema show times throughout the UK, and fast access to the authoritative New Oxford Dictionary of English and companion Oxford Thesaurus. Pocket Express combines these services with the world’s first mobile live personal assistant, MobileCierge. With one tap, customers can speak to a live assistant who can help solve almost any personal, travel, medical, or emergency-related request anywhere in the world.
And in case you’re a BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) user, you’ll have to wait just a bit more, as Handmark said they’ll be rolling out the version for RIM-made devices in the near future.
In the meantime, even though Pocket Express sounds like a cool and time saving app/service, I’ll keep relying on Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for all my information needs…
UPDATE: Pocket Express is now available across Europe in 8 different languages. Here’s our post that talks about it.
Not Only for UK market. If you care just for world news ,you can install it easy . It works fine with my E90 . I’m from Poland. On the aplication website, just need put your cell phone number, and you all set !
Hello Dusan. Just saw this article and thought I’d write in. I work for Handmark, and I have a point of clarification for you. Your article is very accurate, except that it states that the release of Pocket Express targets the UK market. In fact, this version of Pocket Express is available in 8 languages–English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Finnish and Swedish–and has over 300 different news sources that are local to various European countries, not just the UK. For more details, please check our press release at http://www.handmark.com/company/press.php?id=196. Also, feel free to follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/handmark.
Thanks!
Yeah, but that came later. I updated the article to point users to our newer post, which talks about Pocket Express’ availability across Europe.
Thanks Dusan. I realized after I posted my first reply that I head misread the date on your initial post–it was 2008, not 2009! My bad. Thanks for updating it tho!