Dude, where’s my phone?
Posted: 08/01/08
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.
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Welcome to Mobile University, the world's leading institution of higher learning for wireless technology users.
Here at Mobile U, you'll find a wealth of info on the latest wireless applications and services. We'll teach you to get the most out of your mobile phone and use the newest wireless technologies to make your life more efficient, more productive and more fun.
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No GPS? No problem.
Posted: 08/01/08
Just dial DIR-ECT-IONS (347-328-4661), request a location or business and seconds later a text message with step-by-step directions will arrive. Its as simple as 1-2-3 and it’s completely free.
Entertaining and educating text novella for teens
Posted: 08/01/08
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.
Who doesn’t want to be Luke Skywalker?
Posted: 08/01/08
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.
World wide social networking
Posted: 07/16/08
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.
Instant news alerts for the visually impaired
Posted: 07/16/08
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.
Free endangered animal ringtones
Posted: 07/16/08
A bald eagle’s cry. Squeaky chirps of baby emperor penguins. The Center for Biological Diversity offers these endangered species’ sounds—and many more—straight to your phone as ringtones. They might just provide you with a great starting point for talking about the plight of threatened species worldwide.
It’s a new social network: Qeep
Posted: 07/16/08
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.
Can’t decide what to do tonight?
Posted: 07/16/08
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.
Talk with friends who are geographically close to you
Posted: 07/16/08
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.
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