Preparing you for the future of the wireless world
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.
Students enter Mobile U with a wide range of mobile skill levels. From beginners to advanced users, all students can find useful tips on boosting their mobile know-how. At Mobile U, there's something for everyone: teens trying to figure out the name of a song on the radio, new parents keeping track of baby naps and feedings, executives getting text message calendar updates, green-minded drivers tracking their car's emissions. It's all here -- and much much more.
Start exploring Mobile U today, and get on your way to graduating as a full-fledged mobile power user.
Posted: 10/24/08
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.
Posted: 10/22/08
Quicken Mobile Tools lets you sign into yourhttps://quickenbeam.intuit.com/quickenweb/qmobile-start.jsf” title=” bank account using mobile and SMS access"> bank account using mobile and SMS access. This free tool is great for checking your bank account balance and avoiding overdraft fees when not at an ATM or computer. Simply text your request to Quicken and the balance will be sent back to you. It also lets users setup alerts to notify themselves about unusual spending in order to protect against identity theft.
Posted: 10/20/08
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.
Posted: 10/17/08
The new Slacker Portable audio player has come to Blackberry phones. Once users create a list of their favorite artists and Slacker-genre stations they only have to sync their phones to their PC once. You are also able to create your own stations with your favorite artists and Slacker’s suggestions. Once the initial set-up is completed, the process of getting and listening to new music is done completely wirelessly. The service will be free with advertisements and a premium version is available ad-free.
Posted: 10/15/08
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.
Posted: 10/13/08
Cellfire is the next generation of consumer savings. The service delivers coupons directly to your mobile phone. It allows you to receive or access many different types of coupons directly from your phone and gives you a code to present to the cashier during checkout to receive the savings at dozens of major retailers.
Posted: 10/10/08
LiteFeeds is a free custom RSS reader for use with mobile phones. LiteFeeds will sync up with your online subscriptions, alert you to new posts, view full articles with images, as well as send blog posts, emails, and alerts. LiteFeeds is great for blog readers and operators who want content on their mobile phone.
Posted: 10/08/08
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.
Posted: 10/06/08
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.
Posted: 10/03/08
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.
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