Mobile Widget Frenzy: Mobidget is coming
July 28th, 2006
Let me introduce a company where I have some involvement as a technical advisor. This company is called Mobease, and their first product, still in beta, is called mobifindit! It’s a search engine for mobile phones that goes through offline and online content… MobileCrunch already has a positive review here. Mobifindit! will soon reach the 1.0 stage, but the company is working on a second important project named Mobidgets!
Mobidgets is a widgets engine for mobile phone. I will not describe all the features here, first because they are not yet frozen, but also to keep some excitement. I will do it in a later post. But Mobidgets is looking for alpha testers, people who are interested in creating widgets for mobile phones. So, to join the program, we prefer you to be a developer but there’s no need to be an expert! The only constraint is to have a Symbian S60 device 2nd Ed FP2 or FP3. If you are interested, go to Mobidgets.com
And here is a screen shot….Looks nice, no?
Update: a Java MIDP2.0 version is in the pipe too! The Symbian one was only a little bit more advanced than the J2me one. Of course, widgets will be compatible between the two versions, but Symbian provides some features not accessible through Java.
Technorati Tags: mobile, widgets, mobilewidgets, mobidgets
Entry Filed under: JavaME, MobileAjax, MobileWidgets
7 Comments Add your own
1. x | July 28th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
Looks nice, but… Symbian only? That’s like 0.001% of the market…
2. TomSoft | July 29th, 2006 at 9:27 am
Who knows?
3. Tommi's S60 applications &hellip | July 31st, 2006 at 8:34 am
Mobidgets vs. WidSets…
We seem to have a new S60 widget thing in town: Mobidgets, currently looking for alpha testers at http://mobidgets.com/. TomSoft says: Mobidgets is a widgets engine for mobile phone. I will not describe all the features here, first because……
4. florent | July 31st, 2006 at 10:36 am
And by the way, at least 6% of the handsets shipped in 2006 will be symbian
5. gabarra | July 31st, 2006 at 10:44 am
We’ll see what happen in the next two years.
6. Everything and the Mobile&hellip | September 26th, 2006 at 10:52 am
UI and Services Revolution needed……
Today, in the cellphone space (as it was for the PC years ago), two main applications/services launching UI paradigms are fighting for dominance:
Icones that launch applications => All architectures needs a kind of “glue” or shell, called …
7. Everything and the Mobile&hellip | September 26th, 2006 at 10:57 am
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