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Mobile Social Networks: What’s their future?

I’ll admit it; I’m one of those weird people who click that box that enables websites to send out lots of pointless newsletters. I live in the hope one day they’ll serve a purpose or value – like the Woolworths ones did (once upon a time) – and of course updates on other websites and [...]

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Facebook panel arrives for the Xperia X1

Sony Ericsson has just released a bunch of new panels for the Xperia X1 handset, just in time for it to arrive in the Americas. These new additions to the phone’s UI act much the same way as many common place widgets do on other mobiles. Besides a Facebook panel, they’ve also made public a [...]

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INQ1Watch: Reasons behind the phone – 1,2,3

In wrapping up the coverage from the launch event, we thought we‘d bring you some of the thinking and reasoning passed along to us as to why the development of the phone’s series by Hutchinson began. These were outlaid to us on the day by 3′s CEO Kevin Russell and the INQ’s CEO Frank Meehan. [...]

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INQ1Watch: The first ever Facebook phone is here

Launched at a design studio in Shoreditch East London, 3′s social networking mobile phone arrives on the scene. It’s packed to rafters with instant access to the likes of Facebook, Skype, instant messaging and all for a remarkably low, low cost. Kevin Russell, the chief executive of 3 UK led the presentation and introduced more [...]

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Initial details on 3′s new ‘Facebook Phone’

Initial details on 3′s new ‘Facebook Phone’

The INQ1 or ‘The Facebook Phone’ is launched today. Our man RobK is on the scene. We’ll have more from you shortly — plus I’m hoping to be able to meet with one of their top executives tomorrow for a sit-down interview on camera. We’ll bring you more on the handset shortly — but I’d [...]

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3′s Seriously Social Party Competition

This is another one I was contacted on Facebook by someone on Three asking to promote the opportunity to win £25,000 (Credit Crunch anyone??) to blow on a party for the winner and all their Facebook friends. For more details checkout their Facebook Page. Once again it is great to see companies like 3 embracing [...]

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Trutap rolling out new IM services tonight – inc. Facebook Chat

250,000 Trutap users are, this evening, finding that they can now use a heckuvalot more instant messenger services than they could yesterday to connect with each other. Given that Trutap has a massive amount users in developing countries who love the ultra cost efficient communications medium of IM on mobile, this is set to be [...]

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3′s ‘Facebook Revolution’ arrives on 13th November

3′s ‘Facebook Revolution’ arrives on 13th November

What’s this all about then? Here’s what the text on the page says: It’s coming soon. 13th November. It will change the way you use Facebook on your phone. Trust us, you don’t want to miss out. Be the first to find out more. Can you say ‘Facebook phone?’

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Vodafone’s step into social media with Facebook

Vodafone’s step into social media with Facebook

I’m rather impressed to see that Vodafone has taken the jump into the social media space properly, with the launch of a Facebook application that lets you send text messages and have the cost of doing so billed to your Vodafone account. Stuart Dredge over at PocketPicks caught this and points out that it’s not [...]

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3′s Skypephone S2: The Facebook Phone

I was actually working on a post about 3′s new Skypephone S2 and the handset’s integrated Facebook application when a reader, Ken, sent me this overview of their Skypephone S2 Facebook experience. Have a read… – – – – – I’ve never been much of a FaceBook fan. Who needs it? I have plenty of [...]

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Blue Whale gets new Facebook profile

If getting on Facebook is still the mobile equivalent of crack for you, then Blue Whale’s BlueWhaleMail push social networking product is hoping to make it a bit easier. The company, which provides software which aims to make desktop software a bit more mobile friendly, has updated its Facebook features. Now BlueWhaleMail, which works with [...]

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ShoZu updates its Facebook profile

The folk over at ShoZu have been coming up with some new functionality for Facebook users – all through pop-ups on your phone’s idle screen. The new functionality looks like this • Have friends’ newest Facebook photos sent to the mobile as soon as they are posted, with the option to receive a collective feed [...]

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