Alltel Avatars - Mobile Animated Messages. With Alltel Avatars, you can now express your emotions using animated 3D characters to deliver pre-recorded and personalized messages. You can also create your own Alltel Avatar by simply uploading a photo from your phone or computer. The service enables users to choose from a library of pre-produced greetings or use templates to create their own greeting using 3D avatars, photos, voice and more.
Alltel Avatars is available to any Alltel MMS subscriber with a video enabled handset that can play 3GP files. Alltel Avatars are available for 99¢ per card. More information is available from here.
Thrrum MMS Search - Mobile Visual Search for T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless. We already heard Thrrum MMS Search - Mobile Visual Search for Sprint camera phones, the service is now available for T-Mobile and Verizon subscribers. Thrrum MMS Search enables camera phone users to find and browse information related to their physical environment using the MMS service integrated into their phones. Users can capture a picture of any text with their auto-focus or macro mode equipped camera phone and send the picture as a MMS to m@thrrum.com. Relevant search results are then sent to the users’ phones. The Thrrum MMS Search service is presently in beta and is available free of charge to T-Mobile and Verizon wireless subscribers in the United States. Continue reading ‘Thrrum MMS Search - Mobile Visual Search for T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless’
Bluepod - Bluetooth Media. Bluepod Media provides a new solution for advertiser/marketer to broadcast advertising/marketing messages via bluetooth to users within the (local) broadcast radius. The Bluepod is a mini computer server with a Bluetooth transmitter and various connectivity ports. About the size of a hardback book, it weighs a mere 400 grammes, is fitted with a remote access CF card and thus only needs plugging into a mains electricity socket for installation. All content management and data delivery audits are handled remotely from our operations HQ in Brighton, globally as needed. Continue reading ‘Bluepod - Bluetooth Media’
AT&T memo lists iPhone 3G MMS Support. A new report from iPhoneAtlas said that an internal AT&T memo lists MMS support as a feature of the iPhone 3G. It allows transmission of text, pictures, and potentially video to other MMS-enabled phones. The AT&T memo was confirmed by an AT&T customer service representative. Yeah, since they aren’t known for delivering accurate information for upcoming products, so this is still a rumor. MMS may be seldom used in the US but it’s so popular in Europe. Stay tuned.
(via iphoneatlas)
Thrrum MMS Search - Mobile Visual Search for Sprint camera phones. We already heard before about semantic-search such as Vodafone Otello Visual Mobile Search - CeBIT 2008 and ER Search - Visual Search powered by Bandai announced by KDDI. And, what’s now? Camera phone users on the Sprint wireless network can now find and browse information relevant to their environment using picture messaging. Thrrum MMS Search enables camera phone users to find and browse information related to their physical environment using the Picture Messaging service integrated into their phones. Continue reading ‘Thrrum MMS Search - Mobile Visual Search for Sprint camera phones’
6 New GSM and 3G Phones launched by Hop-on. You may remember the disposable cellphone, a GSM Dual band with no display that features a Braille keypad, Hop-on HOP1800 - $10 GSM Cellphone. And now the company behind that cellphone announced 6 new cheap mobile phones. Hop-on’s new HOP1800 Series phones will range from a $125 PDA phone to the world’s lowest cost phone for $10 in the US. These phones are built using high quality standards of components and manufacturing. Continue reading ‘6 New GSM and 3G Phones launched by Hop-on’
Opera Mobile 9.5 for HTC Touch Diamond. Opera announced the availability of Opera Mobile 9.5 for HTC Touch Diamond. The HTC-specific version of Opera Mobile 9.5 introduces a new intuitive user interface (UI) and includes numerous innovative features that elevate the Internet experience on a phone. Page viewing and panning allows users to scan and navigate pages quickly while Opera Zoom enables users to dive into the page and get closer to the content they want. Turning the device sideways automatically rotates the Web page view from a portrait to landscape view on the new. Continue reading ‘Opera Mobile 9.5 for HTC Touch Diamond’
Apple Patent Application: Universal Instant Messaging. Apple apparently has plans for a universal instant messaging application. A newly published patent application outlines an IM application that looks much like the current SMS text message application.
In normal use, users would continue to use the same bubble chat interface as with today’s phone, complete with the ability to start new messages by searching through the contact list or typing the first few letters of someone’s name. Continue reading ‘Apple Patent Application: Universal Instant Messaging’
Levi Strauss - Levi’s 3G Slider Phone for Orange France. Following the last post, Levi’s Fashion Phone - Red Tab Limited Edition, Here’s another fashion phone from Levi’s which is engraved with the Levi Strauss logo and features a metal and soft touch finish.
Levi Strauss comes with a tri-band (900/1800/1900Mhz) GSM radio, 2100Mhz UMTS, 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, FM radio, microSD card slot, and a limited-time 1GB microSD card and jean-shaped phone case offer.
Levi Strauss 3G Slider Specifications: Continue reading ‘Levi Strauss - Levi’s 3G Slider Phone for Orange France’
Fun Text ‘Emotional Messaging’ app on selected 3UK devices. Under the deal, 3 customers will be able to access Fun Text’s services from the messaging menu of their phones, alongside SMS and MMS. The Fun Text platform lets them easily add rich media content to their text messages.
Fun Text essentially allows users to choose from a range of premium content that is preloaded in the app, to generate a “text message” that contains rich media ( Continue reading ‘Fun Text ‘Emotional Messaging’ app on selected 3UK devices’
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