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.
CONFIDANT, Inc. provides a chronic disease management tool for those with diabetes and other ailments. It’s a portable, easy-to-use tool that provides feedback and coaching while automating communication between patients and healthcare providers. CONFIDANT also has a tool for interactive maintenance of a healthy lifestyle and weight management, empowering people to take charge of their health.
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!
Mobiseer is a web service that lets you find mobile websites, mark them for later use, and even build a mobile web page with your favorite links for quick access Go to mobiseer.mobi on your cell or visit their website.
Need your balance in an instant? Bank of America’s mobile phone banking is an easy, secure way to access balance information, pay bills, transfer funds, and find nearby ATMs or banking centers.
Get reminded, anywhere, with Remember the Milk. A convenient tool with multiple features, it gets its name from a handy reminder system that can send you notes via e-mail, text message, and instant messenger. By synching task management between your desktop and mobile, you can save time and never skip a beat. Or forget that milk.
Adding Evernote to your phone will allow you to easily capture information in any environment and rapidly access and search for it later. Evernote works by recognizing the individual elements and characters present in your handwriting, to-do lists, and images, and storing them as searchable data.
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.
Find a good restaurant, happy hour specials, mobile Wi-Fi hot-spot, or Internet café directly from your phone! Lightpole allows users to read about an establishment, call it, and map the results. Customizable features also allow you to create content channels online.
Xpenser is a simple expense tracker that lets you easily record expenses as soon as you incur them, via email, voice message, mobile SMS, IM, or Twitter.
Geezeo is a web-based financial aggregator that allows you to track all your bank accounts online from your mobile phone and gives budgeting tools and tips to help you get you finances in order.
Diet.com provides nutritional values for food items on popular restaurant menus. Just send a text message of the restaurant and food item to DIET1 (34381), and you’ll get a reply message with all the nutritional information. It also lets you track your daily meals and save the nutritional info about each meal.
Kwiry is a SMS-based reminder service for keeping track of to-dos and reminders on-the-go. Just text your reminder to k-w-i-r-y (59479), then head to your Kwiry homepage or open the email Kwiry automatically sends you next time you’re at your computer.
Jott is a voice to text transcription service: you call Jott at (866) JOTT-123, leave a message, and Jott transcribes it and emails you or your contacts the text. Just got to their website and sign up.
Boopsie is a downloadable application that allows for extra fast mobile searching.
This search tool helps you find whatever you’re looking for with as little typing as possible by combining live search with topic-specific search channels (dictionary, news, movies, etc.).
Knotler is a simple To-Do lists service that lets you create lists, access them from PC or mobile, and collaborate on lists with others.
This website lets you easily transfer files from your computer to your mobile phone. In just three simple steps you can upload and send any picture, music track, video file, office document or any other file to your cell phone. Upload your file, indicate whether you want Beam-it to compress it and enter your phone number. Shortly after Beam-It will send you a text message (SMS) with the download link to the uploaded file.
emulator is a website that allows businesses and individuals to test out their website to see if it is mobile ready.
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.
BrainCast Beta is a free Internet & phone based message/memo recording & reminder organization system. Stop fighting with notepads and lost lists, login in to their web site and start getting organized. It is compatible with U.S. based cellular or regular telephone networks.
MoneyManager, a Java program, available as a free download at GetJar, lets you keep track of your finances on your cell.
ShopList is freeware program for you web enabled phone that lets you create and view a grocery list. It can be downloaded from various Internet sites. It is simple but helpful.
Cheap Gas is a web-enabled widget that is included in the GetMobio download, a free service that consists of over 50 dynamic applications, widgets and RSS feeds. Cheap Gas helps you to find the lowest price for gas anywhere you are and even lets you filter your search results by brand.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Can’t find your phone? Dude, where’s my phone is a new website that will call your phone continuously until you find it and pick it up. Just make sure you don’t leave your phone on silent.
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.
A free application from the iPhone’s app store will download all of your documents and spreadsheets from Google’s Documents (link to Apple application store) feature, making them available to read and access even when away from a data connection. Perfect for storing and accessing shared lists even when you’re on the go.
There are a lot of options for voicemail to text conversion services, such as PhoneTag and PhoneWire, each costing $9-$30 a month, but SpinVox has a unique feature that others don’t. While all of these services convert voicemails to text or email messages, SpinVox’s new feature will provide added benefit busy business travelers. Federal regulations prohibit making phone calls during a flight, but SpinVox users can continue to get their voicemails as text messages or emails during a flight in a data-only environment and respond via email while still in the air or by text once on the ground.
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.
GrandCentral, Google’s latest acquisition, hopes to make managing multiple phone numbers an easier process. The service allows users to send calls from multiple phone numbers to one number, combine voicemail accounts and answer phone calls even as the caller is recording a voice message. Grand Central also allows users to record calls on the fly access the recordings online, receive voicemail notifications via email or SMS and others. One particularly innovative service is the ability to have people leave voicemails via a web service that hides your phone number.
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.
HP’s CloudPrint service allows you to remotely print using your mobile phone. Email a document to the CloudPrint virtual print server which will store a copy and send an SMS to your phone with a reference ID. Once you get to a computer, enter the code on the CloudPrint web site and the server will find the nearest local printer. This service allows you to save multiple files on the server, keep the reference IDs on your phone and print from any computer. Additionally, you can print mobile photos or files from your phone to your home printer.
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.
