Is your whole family on Verizon? Thanks to the new service, now you can know exactly where your wife is, at any time. Simply sign for the Family Locator service and follow you spouse’s whereabouts. The same works on the other end (to track a husband), too, and probably has its best use for tracking…
AT&T nüvifone G60, Touch Diamond2, and Touch Pro2 get Pricetags
Along with release dates for other handsets in their Windows Mobile lineup, price points for the nüvifone G60, HTC Touch Pro2 (to be branded as the Tilt 2), and the Touch Diamond2 (branded Pure). The Tilt 2 will run you $299.99, $499.99 off contract; the Pure $149.99, $349.99 off contract; finally, the Garmin-asus nüvifone G60,…
Media browser Kinoma Play goes Symbian S60
Kinoma Play, the media browser which we’ve covered in the past, is going Symbian S60. As a result, millions of S60 smartphone users can easily find media by browsing the extensive built-in Kinoma Guide app or searching leading media sites such as YouTube, Flickr and SHOUTcast. The application can play media in all popular formats…
GyPSii goes Android
I’m not sure why it took so long for GyPSii to release an Android client, but it’s here now and it’s a good thing (at least for Android device ownin’ social networking fans). Anyway, just like their clients for other platforms, GyPSii for Android allows users to create, share and search for geo-tagged content in…
iPhone MMS Shows First Signs of Life on AT&T
While the service isn’t available for all AT&T subscribers just yet, a sizeable number of people are now able to handle MMS messages on their iPhone. This comes as a bit of a surprise for those who had been counting down to the official September 25th. launch date, but I suspect the process will be…
Myriad Dynamic Homescreen is a mobile widget solution for low-end handsets
Myriad Dynamic Homescreen is a new solution designed to enabled graphical web-based widgets on the world’s most affordable mobile phones, even those selling for as little as $10 or $15 in emerging markets. It’s an AJAX-based solution, using web-based standards most developers are familiar with, and it’s well optimized, requiring less than 500Kb ROM and…
T-Mobile, Sony Ericsson launch unlimited music download service PlayNow Plus in the Netherlands
Sony Ericsson seems to be experimenting with unlimited music download service in the Netherlands. Along with the local branch of T-Mobile, the Swedish-Japanese handset manufacturer has launched PlayNow Plus, a buffet service which users can get for 9.95 EUR a month when paired with some data plan (starting at 9.95 EUR, as well). Sony Ericsson’s…
U.S. Cellular launches My Contacts Backup for smartphones
U.S. Cellular has recently launched My Contacts Backup for smartphones, allowing users to create and share groups of contacts with other U.S. Cellular customers. From the press release: U.S. Cellular customers have the ability to group friends, colleagues and family members into contact lists, which can be easily shared with others. Whenever a list is…
Ondeego’s AppCentral is a mobile app store for the enterprise
Motorola’s Android offering certainly stole this year’s Mobilize, but there were other interesting announcements being made at the event, as well. On that note, we bring you the story of Ondeego, which used Mobilize’09 to launch AppCentral, the enterprise-focused mobile app store. The main idea behind AppCentral is to “address the unique needs of enterprise…
Rogers Soft Launches 15 GB / $150 Wireless Plan
Although you wouldn’t be able to tell from their website, Rogers has begun rolling out a new data plan for 15 GB at $150/month, hinted at earlier this summer. I gave Rogers a call to see what’s up, and apparently they’re just soft-launching it for now to guage interest, which, as you can imagine, might…