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Social Blogging Cell Phone

zogger
Tue May 02 19:56:42 -0700 2006
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Earthlink and  SK Telecom from Korea are to start offering a couple of models of cell phones which, among some other data features, come pre configured to be instant blogging tools, initially tied to MySpace and targetting that demographic.

"U.S. mobile phones are pretty staid affairs compared to what’s available in Asia and Europe, but a phone service launching Tuesday aims to bring cutting-edge features from South Korea to a U.S. audience. "..more unusual but probably profitable convergence...there

Walled garden

DocJones
Wed May 03 07:04:17 -0700 2006
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When cell phones break out of the Compuserve/Prodigy/AOL "walled garden" era call me. I don't put up with limits on what I can do with my computer so why should I accept half-assed service from my cell phone.
Is it just that the market hasn't matured enough for connected cell phone apps to really take off or are the cell phone companies keeping things closed? I can't help but think of all the cool stuff a cell phone could do if they were a little more open. Yeah, the interface on them is a little restricted I still think there should be a lot more innovation out there.
Case in point: I had trouble finding even a simple app to track gas milage with my phone. As far as I'm concerned I should be able to quickly enter my milage and have it uploaded to a server where it is charted, graphed, compared to similar vehicles in my area and tell me how much I could've saved by filling up at the station two blocks away.

Any open source phones out there?
 

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