Three Days with a Phone

After years in the mobile industry, I came to realize that although there are many professionals (developers, sales people, QA engineers etc) there is no place to serve as a community for all these people who are so passionate about the mobile industry and mobile technologies. Naturally, I decided to make one - so came to the world mobiledevworld.com.

Mobiledevworld.com is a premier meeting place for mobile and cellular professional. The target is to create an open community for mobile software, mobile internet and mobile services professionals and enthusiasts to exchange ideas, discuss technologies and explore this exciting field of mobile technology.

Few of the benefits of mobiledevworld.com:

1. a huge database of more than 2300 mobile phone’s specifications and data sheets;
2. News and updates about the mobile industry from professionals’ point of view;
3. Forums for mobile developers, sales managers, deal flow etc
4. Job in the mobile industry and development project classifieds
5. and much more

So, if you are a mobile professional, enthusiast or a developer - register to mobiledevworld.com.

woofim.com is a cool mini blogging service which focuses on allowing full management as well as posts and user discovery directly from the mobile phone.

it includes few cool features such as:

1. upload and posting of media (in addition to text);
2. create a personal mini blog (for example, you can see my personal woofim page)
3. ability to create topics and share entire topics rather than a single post - for example you can see my topic about mobile phones and gadgets.
4. create private topics or items that are accessible only to your friends
5. and the coolest feature of all is the ability to follow a keyword and not only a person.

The service is in a private beta but you can request an account to participate in the best testing.

For years (and years) I struggled with the mobile operators’ “Walled Garden” attitude. For years mobile operators tried to convince me that only they can offer quality mobile services simply because (and here you can add any reason you want). The truth was that all they wanted it to keep their grip on the user.

In the last couple of years I began witnessing cracks in this approach. Mobile operators added developer environments and portals which allowed simpler integration to their networks and easier ways to access their users and more.

So I should be happy. Well, I’m not.

The main reason is in parallel we witness the birh and rise of new “Walled Gardens”. Apple’s MobileMe offers me their service but ONLY if I use an iPhone…well, I don’t. Microsoft’s My Phone offers me their service but I have to be an owner of a Windows Mobile phone (ya….really…me…Windows Mobile…). And Nokia offers me OVI but I have to use a Nokia S60 phone….

Moreover, each and every service keeps me locked within their domain. Lets assume I use a (hmmmm) Windows Mobile phone (just joking there) and I want to move my data to the latest and greatest Nokia N97 (please release it already…) - hmm… sorry.

OK… I want to sync my data with Google (Calendar and Contacts) - nope sorry. I want to share my pictures with Flickr - nope sorry.

Someone give me device independar, Internet service friendly mobile content sync service!

vufone - synchronize your phone to the web

vufone is a personal utility which allows mobile phone users to backup, synchronize and manage their phone on the web. The vufone service allows seamless, periodical, automated and simple bi-directional synchronization or contacts, calendar, messages, images and photos, video files and music to a secured account on the web. vufone also allows you to mesh up and share your data with services such as Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, Youtube, Google Calendar and Google contacts.

visit us at http://www.vufone.com and watch our short intro video.

Register on vufone.com by March 1st and get one year free service !

Backup your mobile phone Regular automated backup of your phone (contacts, calendar, messages, photos, videos and music) No cables needed, over-the-air backup Safe copy of your mobile information on a secure server Contacts, messages, calendar, photos, videos or documents Restore to any new phone brand or model Synchronize your phone with vufone or other services Get your Microsoft Outlook meetings or Google Calendar on your phone Automatically synchronize Microsoft Outlook contacts or Gmail contacts to your phone Synchronize your Microsoft Outlook tasks to your phone Use your phone contacts in Microsoft Outlook or Google contacts Manage your phone contacts and calendar on the web Periodical and automated synchronization over the air Upload and Share your photos, videos and music Upload your pictures, videos and music from your mobile and view them online Download music, pictures and other files from the web to your phone Create online albums and show them to friends and family on the Web Send your pictures and videos to friends’ phones Upload your mobile photos and videos to your favorite social network Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube View your photos and videos online in full quality More Cool Features MyPersona - make your picture appear on your friends phone when you call them Grab pictures from any Internet site directly to your vufone account and your phone using our Internet Explorer and Firefox plug-ins. Turn any web picture into your phones wallpaper Listen to your mobile music online

Supported Phones

see our supported phones page for a full list of supported phones using Java, Symbian and Windows Mobile platforms from Nokia, SonyEricsson, Motorola, Samsung, HTC and more.

Use vufone in your local languge.

Currently supported languages are: English, Spanish, German, Italian, French, Dutch, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese and Russian.

The vufone service released a client for windows mobile professional edition devices (WM 5, 6 and 6.1). Now you can use all these touch screen windows mobile phone to sync to our service.

We will be released the windows mobile standard edition (a.k.a smart-phone edition) shortly.

Checkout the new supported device page - there are over 280 supported phones now.

“vufone™ is a personal service which allows, amongst others, full synchronization, access and management of the user’s data including contacts, calendar, messages and files; Picture and video uploading to a personal area and to social networks such as Flickr & Facebook; Synchronization of personal media files between the personal computer and the mobile phone; Extending Outlook to the mobile phone using an outlook plugin; Simple, over the air, user data transfer between devices when, for example, upgrading a phone while assuring data integrity and adaptation to the new device; Ability to send picture from any web site directly to the phone using vufone’s MSIE or FireFox plugins.”

Cheers,
Rafi Ton