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Handmark unveils Pocket Express for the UK market

By: , IntoMobile
Friday, February 15th, 2008 at 1:59 PM

Handmark announced the new UK versions of its award-winning Pocket Express news and information service for Symbian S60 smartphone users.

Handmark unveils Pocket Express for the UK market

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 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 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.

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Dusan Belic

Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

  • khak

    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 ! :)

  • Dusan Belic

    Yeah, but that came later. I updated the article to point users to our newer post, which talks about Pocket Express’ availability across Europe.

  • Josh Sitzer

    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!