A multitude of both web- and non-web-enabled features are available from Yahoo! Mobile. Their popular mail feature lets you read, reply and search emails from any Internet-enabled phone, while Yahoo! oneSearch lets users get the 411 on all sorts of businesses.
Make your cell phone do things you only thought your BlackBerry could do. TeleFlip can convert emails into text messages and deliver them to your cell phone. Your carrier’s text messaging rates are the only charge. Get started online at
Just take a picture and send it to scanR from your Blackberry or other web enabled phone and they turn it into text that can be shared via email or fax. Store business cards, newspaper articles, and even info from white boards.
For the visually impaired, text based mobile technology doesn’t have much of a use. A new service from Audiopoint, called Voice Terminal Service (VTS), changes that. VTS is a service that alerts users via any telephone about updates to a news feed, keyword search, email or calendar item. Each item is read to the user over the telephone immediately after it happens.
SpotJots just launched their BlackBerry app , offering location-based social networking that includes voice, picture, music, video and text sharing. Using Google maps to let you find jots around the world, SpotJots acts like a GPS-powered social radar. Just text SPOTSJOTS to 41411 or visit their website with your BlackBerry browser.
There are dozens of shortcut keys or keystroke combinations that allow better Blackberry usability. For example, hitting ‘J’ while reading emails will immediately call up the oldest message in the email chain.
Emoze is the first free mobile push email service. Emoze allows you to receive emails and Outlook data anywhere on your mobile phone even if it’s not a Blackberry or PDA. It is completely secure and allows email access without connecting to a service or clicking send\receive. You can also manage contact, calendar, and other personal information all for free using your mobile phone.
WidSets is a free service that allows you to access your favorite web content from your mobile phone for free. Through the use of mobile widgets and applications you can have access to non-mobile enhanced sites such as Wikipedia, flickr, The Wall St. Journal, Twitter, a push email program and many more. WidSets also allows you to share mobile content with other users as well as publish your own content to the web.
