Mobile Web News, Week of November 5, 2007

October 25, 2007 on 9:51 am | In Mobile Web News |

Get Pandora on AT&T
Pandora
is a renowned Internet radio station now available on your AT&T
mobile for a 5-day free trial and $8.99 a month thereafter, provided
you have one of these phone models: the Samsung SYNC, a717, and a737;
the Motorola V3xx and RAZR 2; the LG trax; and existing LG CU400 or
CU405 models.

Pandora started its mobile radio service with Sprint in
May 2007. For Sprint, it worked on FUSIC phones by LG, A900 and A920 by
Samsung, and 7500 and 8400 by Sanyo and all Sprint Power Vision phones.
Sprint offers a free, 30-day trial and a $2.99 a month subscription
thereafter.

Sadly, because of licensing hassles, Pandora is now available only in the US.

Source: appscout.com

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Sony Moves Towards the Mobile Web

Sony Ericsson is
out with a mobile web-savvy instrument, the K660. It works on superfast
HSDPA networks and has some neat features for mobile web access, such
as light-up access keys.

Source: mobileburn.com

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Google’s New Android
Google has just announced it’s long-awaited operating system for cellphones: Android.

Android will be made available under an open-source license, and a system development kit will be made available later this week for developers to create applications for Android.

Google has signed up many partners for the cause, albeit few
of them are majors: T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm, Motorola (MOT), Sprint
Nextel (S), Telecom Italia, NTT DoCoMo, Broadcom (BRCM), and a phalanx
of other mobile-related companies.

The kicker is that handsets with Android will appear only in the second half of 2008, which makes industry experts speculate that the announcement was primarily a PR exercise!

Source: GigaOm.com