Netflix on the go

With Netflix Mobile you can view and manage your queue with your Internet-enabled mobile phone. Bookmark this page and you can instantly add recommended movies to your queue as soon as you hear about them.

Recycle With an Electronics Score

In addition to carriers, electronics stores, such as Best Buy, Office Depot and Staples, are also major suppliers of cell phones and are concerned about the effects of electronic waste.  As a result, these companies have also instituted in-store programs to aid mobile phone recycling.  In each store, there are collection areas where you can drop-off your cellular phone for recycling. Learn More

Recycle With the Phone Manufacturer

Many of the major cell phone manufacturers – LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson offer mail-in options for recycling your cell phones regardless of the cell phones’ carrier or manufacturer.  You’ll need appropriate packing materials to mail your phone, but the manufacturers take care of the postage with pre-paid labels that you can print out.  Some additional considerations to remember when mailing your phone:

If you’re including batteries, please ensure that the battery is fully discharged and your phone is powered off. Please do not include any loose batteries.
Place phones in appropriate packaging/envelope. There’s no need to add extra packaging materials.
Print the pre-paid postage and affix it to the package. Make sure any previous delivery address and barcodes are covered.
Drop off the package/envelope in the mail. Learn More

Google Maps Mobile

Google offers all the utility of its Google Maps in a mobile web version for your mobile phone. With Google Maps Mobile, you can view maps, get turn-by-turn directions, see traffic conditions, find nearby businesses, and even find out your current location—without needing GPS. This service works for most web-enabled phones.

App lets parents monitor kids’ texting

It can be hard for parents to keep up with the new technology their kids are using. A new app from MyKidisSafe gives parents a measure of control over their children’s text messaging. Parents can restrict their kids’ mobile phone use while driving or during school hours. Parents can also enable filters that block objectionable content sent to their kids’ devices. Yet another way mobile technology can help give parents some much-needed peace of mind.

Share videos and pictures from moments in your life

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.

Yahoo! goes mobile with you

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.

Blogging has never been so easy or so mobile

UPhoneBlog lets you publish your on-the-go pictures as a life blog and then use it on any number of other websites with your mobile phone. Take a picture or record a video, write a multimedia message (mms) or email, and send it to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Visit their website to sign up.

You were poked by: Facebook

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.

Spread video and photo from your cameraphone

At Umundo, you can publish videos and pictures from your phone to the web. Register and share your stuff with friends on Facebook, Orkut, Myspace, Hi5, Yahoo, Google, iPods and cell phones.

Lights, camera, action: phone videos online

Share online what you video capture in your hand. Put cell phone videos in 3GP format directly on the web at SpotMob.

Let the world know what you see!

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!

Share your life with the world in a photo and a sentence

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.

Transfom your phone into a hotspot for your laptop

A revolutionary new tool, WalkingHotSpot allows you to securely connect to the Internet by converting your 3G/Wi-Fi smartphone into a hotspot for your laptop, MP3 player, or gaming device. It’s a new solution that works wherever there is mobile network coverage.

Create and share videos, photos, audio and text with Treemo

If you’re looking for a better way to share videos, photos, audio, and text, take a look at the Treemo application for your phone. Much like a Youtube channel, your Treemo channel aggregates your multimedia activity and makes it available to you and others on your mobile, on the web, on your blog, and on MySpace or Facebook.

It’s fringing freedom!

Fring is a mobile VOIP/IM app and community that allows you to go mobile with skype, AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, and more, giving you the choice between available connection types (3G, EDGE, GPRS or Wi-Fi) and the enjoyment of fring’s benefits without subscription. It is totally free to download and use.

Say it like you mean it, instantly

Pinger lets you send free voice messages to any mobile phone. It’s like audio text messaging.

Text groups for spontaneous event planning

Swaggle is a free SMS messaging service that lets you send text messages to groups. To sign up, just send a text message (SMS) from your mobile phone to Swaggle, (206) 694-9197 or visit their website.

Addicted to Twitter?

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.

Maintain your blog or social network page from anywhere

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.

Take your full Web experience with you

Opera Mini 4 - mobile web browser - enables you to stay in touch with your friends on Facebook, manage your Twitter feed, get your e-mail on the go, and do your online banking. Download Opera Mini directly to your phone by visiting operamini.com using your existing phone’s Web browser.

Flickr for your mobile

Flickr on your phone! You can see uploads from your friends, read recent comments, upload your own mobile pics, or search around for new stuff. Open up a web browser on your mobile phone and go to: m.flickr.com.

Share pictures, video, and connect with friends

JuiceCaster lets you meet new people, connect with friends and share your photos and videos from your phone. Instantly update your status on Twitter and Facebook. AT&T customers can simply text JUICE to 386 and you’re good to go; those with other providers can sign up free on the website.

Can’t get enough of the latest podcasts?

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.

Not your Grandma’s Voicemail

You Mail allows you to create separate personalized voicemail greetings for different callers. Show off your personality when your friends call, be professional with your boss, and even ditch unwanted callers like an ex or a telemarketer. You Mail is free and works with most phones.

It’s a new social network: Qeep

Blue Lion provides worldwide access to a new mobile social network called qeep. It’s offered free of charge, and has a host of alternative entertaining features for staying in touch. Multi-player gaming enables users to compete against one another in real-time on their mobile phones, while a photoblogging feature lets users share unlimited photos with friends in real time.

World wide social networking

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.

Twinkle, Twinkle Little App

Twitter app Twinkles on Apple’s new device. This star shines because it mixes in location-based services with Twitter, letting you tweet to show to others where you are, and also see the tweets of other users around you.

No more emoticons; video status updates are here

12seconds is a video status platform that will help you keep up to date with your friends. It’s a super easy way to share what you’re doing with friends and family using short video clips using a web cam or mobile phone to record and share 12second updates, just record and email or SMS it to the unique email address they give you and you’re good to go. 

Automatic travel journal tracks your trip progress

With the purchase of an international cell phone package from Telestial Wireless comes Travel Journal, a program that uses the GPS location of your sim card to automatically update a map with your location. Travel Journal can allow friends and family to track your progress and leave comments.

Inexpensive international mobile phone services

Jaxtr is a global mobile community that allows users to communicate with anyone across the world at a discount- or in some cases for no cost at all. Jaxtr’s services include free international calls and text messages to over 150 countries when contacting another jaxtr member. The cost is still reduced if you are calling or texting non-members. Jaxtr also provides the ability to screen calls and forward them to other phones. Becoming a Jaxtr member is easy and makes it less expensive to stay in touch with friends and business associates all over the globe.

View non-mobile enabled websites on 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.

Combine all chat services on your phone

Nimbuzz is a free mobile application that allows free chat, texts, file sharing and some free calls.  It integrates chat from all of the major programs like Skype, Windows Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, AIM, Gtalk, Facebook, MySpace, and more.  It also allows you to place a widget on your website, blog, social networking page, which allows your friends to chat or text with you from a PC.

Mobile access to LinkedIn

LinkedIn Mobile allows LinkedIn users to access all of their information using the mobile web.  It allows users to see all of their contacts, send invitations to events, and see what their connections are doing.  The service contains almost all of the features of LinkedIn but, with the benefit of being able to do it all from your mobile phone.

Manage mobile voicemail online

A new free service - MessageSling - lets you manage your voicemails online in a Gmail-like interface. MessageSling’s voice-to-text software converts your incoming voicemails to text messages and posts them on its web-accessible site.  If you receive so many voicemails that listening through them on your phone is clumsy or unmanageable, this service would save you time, hassle, and allow you to focus on the most pressing messages right away.