Lotta recent splashes in the race to dominate net connected phones. Mostly Stateside only, but we’ll have caught up with them (down under), by the time they’ve caught up with the Japanese, 90% of whom have already used email on a phone.

Net Phones
Portable machines have proven immensely popular in recent years – whether we use them to listen to music, talk to friends, or record photos, sounds or video. Juicily, all of these functions are starting to be possible on the one device, the possibilities amplified by the simultaneous growth of wireless net connectivity. Naturally there are plenty wishing to be the monoliths providing us these capacities. Alongside growing rumours of an Apple phone, in recent weeks :

– Myspace.com ( owned by Fox ) – release a branded phone which has built in posting of text and phone camera photos direct to a myspace blog.
– Youtube.com – launched free mobile upload service. Sign up, acquire youtube destination email address, capture video on phone & send. Your video is on the web. ( via unmediated )
– Sony Ericsson Google phones have built in google search and blogger.com ( owned by goggle ) publishing.
-Yahoo & Cingular launch a phone with quick access to yahoo webmail, instant messages and local search.
– Motorola is releasing handsets featuring an integrated Google button, which will automatically take users to their search engine.

VOIP
Must be a tumultous time to be a Telecommunications giant, what with all Continue Reading →