Though no country in Africa sells the iPhone, there are people to own one. You buy it online and then use all sorts of jailbreak software to “crack” it. Apparently there is a small market of iPhoners that would like the websites optimized for their phone.
All these being said, there are news from Afrigator. After launching the second version they are now optimizing their site for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. They use a browser detecting software to make sure you’re redirected to the appropriate location.
Here’s how Afrigator looks on an iPhone.
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Afrigator just announced that they moved to the next level with an improved version of their mobile site (Afrigator.mobi) so that you can access Blogs, Podcasts, News and Videos on your mobile phone, without even remembering the URLs.
I tried it on my Nokia E50 and I have to tell you that it’s looking great. The service really does what I expected, easy and fast navigation. This is Afrigator v2, which is a tweaked version of their first mobile platform and the guys promised to bring more features to it, soon.
“Afrigator has really stepped up their game and become what they always aimed to be - a social media aggregator” is what Charl concluded when Afrigator Beta launched in November and believe me I couldn’t have said it better now that I’m looking at an improved product.
By the way, if you have ideas for them to improve it, why don’t you contact them and tell them what else you need. For me, it’s enough. I need to accommodate first. What about you?
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Located in California, Smaato the company that wants to be the Google Adsense of mobile phones has managed to raise $3.5 million in a Series A funding and will use the money to develop their Smaato Open Mobile Advertising (SOMA) platform. The product will be delivered to phones that run on JAVA, Symbian, Windows Mobile, and Palm’s OS.
The company managed to secure advertisers like Allianz, Toyota, Microsoft, Mercedes-Benz, Martini or Weekly in Touch to trial out their service.
“Since founding Smaato we are experiencing a growing interest in targeted mobile advertising. With Smaato we are at the forefront for developing innovative advertising solutions to reach the mobile consumer. With the support of our international investors and our advisory board of experienced and globally connected individuals, we will continue to expand our reach within the industry on a global scale,” stated Ragnar Kruse, the Co-Founder and CEO of Smaato.
I still think Google has an advantage, but if Smaato plays the cards right, this could turn out great for them. Meanwhile, they’re near the pool.
SmaatoBlog
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Yesterday Mobile Voip service provider Yeigo announced their new software release (Yeigo 2.1) in style by revealing their brand spanking new website. The website has a fresh new design sporting a nifty flash slider featuring Yeigo’s highlited functionality and offerings.
Also announced, Yeigo lite, a slimmed down version of Yeigo 2.1 with features like staying in touch with your contacts and portability to various instant messengers like MSN, Gtalk, ICQ and AIM.
Here’s some words from their blog -
At 00:33 this morning, we brought the new Yeigo.com international site online. Codenamed Lina, the site was built to be the launch vehicle of the Yeigo 2.1 Edition application.
Yeigo 2.1 Edition - Featured Highlights:
- Improved efficiency to make your data & your battery go further.
- Best voice quality, ever.
- Improved interface design.
- An assortment of new and unique features, which we will unveil in the days to come.
- New access point management makes switching simple.
Other Yeigo news
You can view the demo here
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Yeigo was founded by three UCT students from Cape Town, South Africa. Yeigo is an innovative mobile voip application for your phone which you can use to make cheap voice calls and send text messages. In fact calls to other users with Yeigo is FREE and you can save up to 80% to non yeigo users. Incorporating some Mxit functionality you can chat to other Yeigo users for free, as well as connect to users of Google Talk, MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ and Jabber - right from your mobile phone. You can check if your hand set is compatible here, although most are.
A reliable source informs me that they will be launching the new Yeigo website sometime this week. But the latest software release is out. I don’t have all the details of the latest version but got some rather tasty info from a internal source - Yeigo Lite is the slimmed down version of the app with some decent limited functionality with all the bells and whistles listed above together with two new functions “Holler” and call back. Read the rest of this entry »
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CrunchGears Matt Hickey has been tracking rumors about a Zune phone for the last week. What began as a reliable tip is now a solid story: Last Monday Microsoft filed an application with the FCC for an enigmatic wireless device that could be used to talk over the Internet. The device is described as being used for consumer broadband access and networking. Microsoft goes on to say that the device would use OFDM as its communications protocol, not WiFi or Bluetooth. The standard OFDM (orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing) is a modulation scheme that is used widely in upcoming 4G standards of the future. Sprint/Nextel may be the carrier, since they are building out a 4G network that will work with the OFDM standard.
And the most interesting part of the story is that this device may be available in May, a month before the iPhone.
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Nokias upcoming N76 is more than just good looks, as youll see in the videos below. At just 13.7mm thick, the Nokia N76 is a sleek camshell thats packed with features. Boasting a QVGA display, 2.0-megapixel camera, 20MB of built-in memory, and a host of multimedia functions. Clips after the jump.
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San Francisco - First there was iPod, now there’s iPhone.
The next phase of Apple’s plan to reinvent itself as a consumer electronics company was unveiled on Tuesday by Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
The touch-screen-controlled device plays music, surfs the internet and delivers voice mail and e-mail differently than any other cellphone.
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