With Zannel, you can post videos, pictures, or text from your phone to your blog, website, or social network to instantly start conversations. You can also follow friends, meet new friends, and watch videos.
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.
Keep in touch, on the go! With Facebook Mobile, you can view friends’ profiles, receive messages, poke, and wall post directly from your cell phone. If you’re a fan of the rapidly growing social network site, this mobile application will keep you in touch no matter how far from a computer you may be. View the FAQs here.
TextMarks provides a handy listing of services and information available simply by sending a text. Information includes SF MUNI arrival times, what’s playing on New York’s WNYC radio station, and ratings for movies on Rotten Tomatoes. Check out the keywords and start texting!
Mozes lets you send and receive mobile messages to and from your favorite bands, social groups and friends.
MixelPix lets you publish and share photos from your phone by directly sharing them on the web. Most recent, most popular, and most commented tabs encourage you to take some great shots!
Want to let everyone know what cool thing you just saw, the funny mix-up in the paper, or just share photos of you and your awesome friends? Gastb lets you publish your camera phone pics directly to a searchable, constantly updated website.
Use Fandango to view show times and even buy tickets for your next movie. Just enter your zip code and Fandango will trace nearby locations. You’ll be in the theater enjoying the entertainment before you know it.
Pinger lets you send free voice messages to any mobile phone. It’s like audio text messaging.
BooksInMyPhone is a book-lover service that makes it possible (for anyone) to download and read books on a mobile phone.
GameJump is a web-enabled free directory for mobile games. Browse through hundreds of mobile games and download games to your PC or forward them directly to your mobile phone.
Amazon TextBuyIt is an SMS enabled application that allows you to buy books right from your phone. Just send a text message to ‘AMAZON’ (262966) with the title, author, or even the ISBN code of the book. Amazon sends a text back to you with search results. You pick the result that best matches your search, and an Amazon robot voice calls you with details and asks for purchase confirmation.
Twapper is a web-enabled app that lets you monitor Twitter feeds from your phone’s browser, letting you avoid the hassle of constant SMS alerts.
Utterz is a free application that lets you easily publish voice messages, videos, photos and text messages to your blog, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Myspace etc, from the PC or mobile phone.
Wapipedia is a web-enabled app that lets you access, search and navigate Wikipedia articles in a mobile-friendly manner. Just point your mobile browser of choice to Wapipedia to get all the goodness of Wikipedia on your phone.
A custom Java app that lets TiVo customers program their TiVo schedules from their cell phone. For information about supporting carriers, check out http://www.tivo.com.
By calling 866-411-SONG and holding your cell phone near the radio you can get all the info you need about the artist, title, and album. 411-SONG will text you the info for 99 cents. There is an unlimited name that song plan that costs $3.99/month.
UnWired Buyer is a free service that syncs with your eBay Watch List several times throughout the day, and then calls you three minutes before an auction is scheduled to end. You use keypad commands to get real-time updates, up your bid and track the auction right up until it’s over. Just enter your phone number on their website and they’ll walk you though it.
Podlinez is a service that lets you listen to podcasts on your phone for free. Enter the RSS feed URL for a podcast on their site to get a phone number you can call to hear it, or browse their directory. If your favorite podcast isn’t already in their directory, you can add it.
Send video to your phone from mywaves and watch what you want when you want.
Just go to their website, browse through the content offerings and subscribe to the channels you want. Watch personal videos, web videos, and even professional programming.
Mosquito repellent sound that is only audible to young ears is being used as a new secret ring tone that adults, like parents and teachers, can’t hear. The ring tone is being called Teen Buzz and is available for download from various web sites.
Mobile flashcards on your phone can help you learn Mandarin Chinese. You can go from English to Chinese or visa versa. The program shows you a word in English or Chinese and then shows you the Chinese pronunciation and then the word again in the other language. It is a java app you can download on their website.
Ask any common question in four languages with PocketSchool. It is a great aid to any one traveling abroad as it provides common phrases (as mp3 files) which one might need in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.
ShakeSMS enables Nokia’s N-series owners to read their text messages just by shaking their phone.
Not sure if your favorite website is compatible with your mobile web browser? Well, Tilt View can tell you. The website has options to check for IE Mobile, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Opera Mini and Symbian. It also works on all mobile browsers.
Zkout (pronounced Scout) is a new social network that follows you. It allows you to send notes, pictures and chat with friends based upon their geographic location. With Zkout you can also find out what is happening in your area.
Zagat’s ranking may only get published once a year, but Buzzd, a new “mobile lifestyle platform,” provides rankings about restaurants and events in “your town, your time.” The mobile service lets users find and share events, rank them and find out what their friends are doing. As of late June, Buzzd had 1.2 million venues in its system.
PhoneSaber made by TheMacBox is an iPhone 3G App that lets you live out your Jedi fantasies through your cell phone. PhoneSaber shows a small lightsaber handle in the lower-center part of the screen with five different color choices on the left. The application uses iPhone’s motion sensor to generate the appropriate sounds when you swish or chop at the air.
Ghost Town is an interactive text novella from Virgin Mobile and YouthNoise, presented in text message format, with each message as a separate chapter and scene, the story of a teenage football player called Ghost who is hiding the secret that he’s homeless is entirely readable on your cell phone.
Subscribers to the popular DVD-by-mail service Netflix are in for a treat. A new feature allows users to send a text to Kwiry’s service with the desired movie title, and the movie is automatically added to the user’s queue! No more scribbling down the next hot movie you’ve read about or overheard some gossip on: just send a quick text message. The movie will be in your mailbox before you know it.
Guitar Hero is available on mobile! Rock out with this rhythm-based game that’s true to the original. Open with 15 jamming tracks and grow your set list with more songs added every month. Shred as your favorite characters, on 4 Gibson guitars, in 3 killer venues.
Can’t find the perfect ring tone to fit your personality? Well, with Phonezoo, you can create your own ring tone for free by uploading a music file to the website and choosing which part of the song you use. The ring tones get texted directly to your 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.
MOBANGO allows users to transfer up to 2GB of music, ringtones, wallpapers, applications, and games from your computer to your phone and share it with users all over the world. It is the perfect way to manage all of your media and keep it backed up. This completely free program also allows users to access and download other users’ content.
Have you ever prayed that someone would just call you and rush you off to an emergency, extricating you from a bad date or awkward situation? Well with the free service Get Me Out Of Here you can be saved! Specify a time and a pre-recorded message online and Get Me Out of Here will call your phone at that time, saving you from any undesirable experience.
