Mobile Web News, Week of August 27, 2007

August 28, 2007 on 3:51 pm | In Mobile Web News |

Please note that we were unable to post a newsletter the week of 20 August, 2007 since the newsmaster was traveling. Any inconvenience is regretted

Click on the player at left to view the week’s major news about the Mobile Web.

HERE’S A SUMMARY OF NEWS TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS VIDEO:

A Mobile Version of Digg: ‘Mobilised’
No, Mobilised has nothing to do with Digg, but performs the same function with a web site tailored for mobile screens. Users are expected to bury any URL which does not serve a mobile screen compatible web site. It has 180 links so far… will it catch on?

Try it, for Pete’s sake!

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Googlephone in Two Weeks?
If this is true, then Google should get the Nobel Prize for the shortest product development cycle.The first Gphones are likely to surface in India.

According to Moneytimes, big G has also developed a G-friendly operating system for mobile phones.

If you’re a mobile service provider, please take it easy on the valium…

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Nokia Launches Three New Phones, N95-8GB, N81 and N82
Nokia’s high-end phone, the N95 “multimedia computer”, now has a rival. It’s called the iPhone, and it is apparently scaring the crap out of Nokia.

For this reason, Nokia has come out with an enhanced N95 with 8GB memory, exactly what the iPhone has. It’s called the N95 8GB (similar in naming style to a Boeing 747 - 400).

There’s also the spanking new N81 and N82, the first a slider and the second a candy-bar. The N81 looks like a redesigned N91, which looked rather clunky. Th N82 is a candy bar with a 5Meg camera et al.
Source: GigaOm

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Iphone Pirates!
Chinese and American pirates have modified the iPhone so that it can be used with any mobile carrier (not only AT&T Cingular). AT&T was going to pay Apple 10% of all revenues arising from iPhone usage, and that arrangement might be strained by this piracy…
Source: MobileCrunch