Some information on an upcoming Rogers service called Social View has bubbled up, that will apparently offer a unified interface for social networking info on smartphones. Here’s a blurb from the supposed unreleased official description:
a built-in feature of these exclusive smartphones that brings together, in real-time, your contacts’ updates from popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. It also includes a display of recent traditional communications such as texts, calls and instant messages from your contacts. Right in the contact list!
Social View will be facilitated by three new plans: the Unlimited Socialite entry-level plan for feature phones, Unlimited Social Master also for feature phones, and the Unlimited Social Addict for all smartphones, excluding BlackBerry. Now, there’s apparently going to be some tie-in with existing software that does this kind of thing – Timescape on the X10, Motoblur on the upcoming Quench, Sense on the Magic, and so on.
Now, if Rogers starts locking these features out unless you pay them $5/month, there will be blood in the streets, I can tell you that. Well, flames in the forums, anyway. However, if Rogers is going to be building on top of these services, to say, use push technology to deliver all of this information in proper “real-time” as they say, then I could see some people popping on board. Alternatively, these could be limited data plans that apply strictly to such built-in social networking widgets, so customers can get their social fix without have to pay for a beefy browsing/tethering data plan. I’ll be interested to see what Rogers comes out with, whatever Social View turns out to be.
[via AndroidGuys]