Yes folks, the iPhone like scrolling of your contacts is possible on Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE) Symbian UIQ3 based smartphones. As you can see from the image on the left and much better from the short demo video after the jump, the application is quite neat and easy to use. Best of all, it goes beyond scrolling, enabling you to quickly find the contact you’re looking for.
I still haven’t tried it, but I plan to. In the meantime, if you have any thoughts, please use our comments form.
One more (bad) thing about it — it’s not free (costs $14.95) and is not a native but a J2ME application. Still, you can try it for free from our application store and if you like it, buy the full version. Now, on with the demo video…
Back in July, we reported that Opera Software is partnering with KongZhong Corporation to push its mobile browser through the Chinese mobile content provider. At that time, the agreement involved distribution of Opera 3-based KongZhong Opera browser. Now, the Chinese company agreed to start promoting Opera’s latest Java-based browser, Opera Mini, as KongZhong Opera 2.0.
Just like the original Opera Mini 4, the KongZhong’s version can show full web pages optimized to be viewed on a mobile screen. In addition, the browser remains bandwidth-friendly and includes such goodies as RSS support and browsing in the landscape mode. Kong.net remain the homepage of KongZhong Opera 2.0, though… Full release after the jump.
Our friends from Mobispine have managed to get “inside” 3neXt portal. Run by Hutchinson Whampoa’s 3 network, 3neXt is an online community for customers of 3 that allows them to leave comments, rate software, write reviews and more. Plus, it’s also a catalog of useful and cool mobile apps.
Back to Mobispine… If you still haven’t download it, I really don’t know what you’re waiting for. It’s probably THE best Java-based mobile news reader which doesn’t just let you go through your favorite RSS feeds, but also optimizes images for faster download. At the moment, they have more than 250,000 feeds and 15 million international news articles and blogs in their database.
Finally, yes you can also subscribe to IntoMobile from Mobispine by following this link.
We at IntoMobile love Opera Mini. And no, we’re not surprised to see other people loving it as well.
As of November 7, when Opera Software officially launched the final version of Opera Mini 4, more than one million people downloaded the free Java-based mobile browser. Congratulations to Opera Software. We wish you all the best, and yes keep improving your mobile browser — even though I’m not sure what else can you add on top the existing functionality… Full release follows after the jump.
According to the technical evangelist for the Java mobile and embedded community at Sun, Terrence Barr, with the release of the so-much-needed SDK in February 2008, iPhone users may be able to play and use Java games and apps. Barr argues the open-source phoneME platform could be converted to run on the iPhone, hence opening the “Java world” to the iPhone community.
Of course, not many people know what Jobs&co are working on, but somehow this makes sense. After all, we already know iPhone’s CPU supports hardware Java acceleration. Hopefully, we’ll see it actually being used after the MacWorld. Stay tuned…
I’m sure you’ve already read the quotes (here and here), but it is a completely different experiance watching their facial expressions. Steve looked relaxed, calm and unnerved. Nigel on the other hand looked a little bit tense. Now admittingly it could have been an upset stomach, jetlag, a multitude of things, but a mans face says more to me than the words coming out of his mouth. He downright looks a little intimidated. Speaking of intimidation, it is almost 16:00 here in Finland and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has yet to dump the bits of their SDK on to the intertubes. What gives?
Mobispine, the company behind the popular Java ME-based mobile news reader, has just landed an important deal with Hutchinson’s 3 network in Denmark. Under the agreement, the carrier will include Mobispine’s free client on its Planet 3 mobile portal, allowing its customers to quickly get their daily dose of news directly from their handsets.
Commenting on the release, 3 Denmark’s Entertainment Manager, Christiane Vejlø said: “Adding Mobispine to our portfolio of innovative mobile web services allows us to differentiate the mobile experience our users get with 3. With Mobispine, you can redefine the way you use the mobile phone – bringing it closer to what you would expect from a PC Internet experience – wherever, whenever.”
And while we’re talking about Mobispine, you can grab our mobile-optimized feed via MobiSpine from here.
Opera Software, developer of the world’s most popular mobile browser – Opera Mini, has announced that the version 4 is finally ready for the prime time. The most important thing the new version brings — and which many users had a change to experience during threebetareleases — is that it brings the full web experience to any Java-enabled mobile phone. Available as a free download from OperaMini.com, the mobile browser also pack such features as RSS support, browsing in the landscape mode, Opera Link support and much more — all while reducing the cost of data traffic up to 10 times…
Comeks Shorts is a new service that wants to add a new element of coolness to SMS. It uses a free J2ME client that is used to visually display text messages. Using Comeks Shorts, users (mostly teenagers) will be able to send text messages using their own avatar — so called “Shortie” — which displays the message in a speech bubble.
Basically, the J2ME client contains the avatars along with all other graphics (backgrounds) and when the message arrives – it is formatted in a desired manner.
As for the monetization of the service, Comeks will be doing advertisement in co-operation with mobile ad-serving companies. The advertisements will be text-based and can include a WAP-link, which is displayed in the speech bubble before the user has typed text in it.
Use Opera on your desktop? Use Opera Mini on your cellphone? Well it looks like all 6 people who fit those 2 requirements are jumping for joy today. Opera has introduced a new feature called “Link,” no not Zelda. You are now able to keep your bookmarks in sync across yet another closed walled garden. Why they couldn’t use Delicious is beyond me, Yahoo already sponsors their default search engine on the home screen. Full changelog for Opera Mini Beta 4 version 3 below:
Added Link support
Added Speed Dials
Added RSS feed support
Added shortcut *+0 for feeds
Added shortcuts for speed dials (*+[speed dial number])
Added function to ask the transcoders for the title and favicon of a new bookmark or speed dial
Stylus devices can now scroll shortcut help overlays
Changed “Fit to width” to “Mobile view”
Changed “Autozoom” to “Show overview”
Low, medium and high image quality setting
Images fit better to the screen (no panning)
Improved BiDi support
Page position and scaling is now preserved after reload of page
Stylus devices without pointer motion events should be able to scroll anyway, just not in realtime
Yes folks, the iPhone like scrolling of your contacts is possible on Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE) Symbian UIQ3 based smartphones. As you can see from the image on the left and much better from the short demo video after the jump, the application is quite neat and easy to use. Best of all, it goes beyond scrolling, enabling you to quickly find the contact you’re looking for.
Back in July, we reported that 
According to the technical evangelist for the Java mobile and embedded community at Sun, Terrence Barr, with the release of the so-much-needed 
