In order to activate the service, Omnia and I8910 HD users will need to upgrade their devices. Omnia customers can download and install the mobile client from the website www.samsungapps.com. I8910 HD customers can simply upgrade their software by selecting the Application Download icon on their phones.

The on-device client is available in English, French and Italian and supports credit card and phone billing through the mobile application store. Users who haven’t signed up as a member of the Application Store can purchase free applications and paid applications through the phone billing payment option.

Over 300 native applications meeting Samsung’s content guidelines will be available at launch, expected to grow to over 2,000 by the end of 2009. Gameloft, Electronic Arts, Handmark, TAITO, Paragon SW, Capcom, Com2us, Prompt, Pearson Longman, Bokan Tech and Diotek are among the providers of applications to the Samsung Application Store.

Earlier this year, Samsung launched its seller site (http://seller.samsungapps.com) for application developers and content providers enabling them to distribute and sell their applications directly to Samsung Smartphone users.

Samsung Application Store will be demonstrated at the IFA 2009, the IT and CE trade show, in Berlin from September 4th to 9th. Please visit to experience the newly launched Samsung Application Store at Hall 20.

Kanghyun Kwon, Vice President of Samsung’s Content Service Team, Media Solution Center, said: “We launched a Samsung Application Store beta service in January in the UK and have been collaborating with developers and content providers through Samsung Mobile Innovator, a developer program for Symbian, Windows Mobile, and Java from October, 2008. With the launch of Samsung’s Application Seller Site, we can complete the total eco-system for better, easier, and more exciting mobile experiences ranging from compelling mobile phones to content and applications. We are aiming to achieve a win-win business model for end-users, mobile operators, and industry influencers, such as developers and content providers.”

A member of the Seller Site will be able to purchase a sales contract online and check the certification status in real-time. The site provides essential statistics such as sales records, revenue, and popularity of the content to end-users. Billing and payment is also handled online. Samsung plans to launch and expand an official Application Store in Europe during 3Q of this year.

The online store will be officially launched at next month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with an initial selection of 1,100 applications that Samsung’s UK-based customers will be able to load onto their devices. In its initial phase the store will support both Samsung S60 and Windows Mobile platforms, with a further upgraded planned for later in 2009. The application store is now able to be viewed here

Samsung has previously launched Samsung Mobile Innovator, a new program enabling mobile software developers to create applications for use across all Samsung S60 devices.

For example if you key in Starbucks as the End Point, Google Maps will first display a list of the nearby Starbucks for you to choose, and then display the direction base on the location you have selected. Best of all the service is free except your wireless data connection charge. The Google Maps for Mobile can be downloaded here

Other New Features Include:

• Support for password-protected files (Word & Excel 97-2004, X, XP)
• Support for Text (.TXT) files
• Edit and insert hyperlinks in word processing files
• Edit and insert bookmarks in word processing files
• View charts in spreadsheets
• Freeze/unfreeze panes in spreadsheets

Documents To Go Premium Edition 4.0 for Symbian smartphones based on UIQ 3.0 and 3.1 retails for $49.99 and is available directly from DataViz as well as many retail and online stores. Upgrade pricing of $29.99 is available directly from DataViz for all previous Documents To Go UIQ customers. Supported devices include Sony Ericsson M600, P990, W950i, W960i, P1i, G700, G900 and the Motorola MOTO Z8 and Z10. For more information and to download a free evaluation, visit www.dataviz.com/symbian  

JoikuSpot enables S60 Smartphone to share it’s 3G internet connection wirelessly over WLAN with any compatible WLAN device such as laptop, other Smartphone or e.g. Apple iPod touch. Multiple devices can connect to JoikuSpot in parallel and seamlessly share the same 3G internet connection. JoikuSpot acts thus as an internet gateway to external WLAN devices.

The HAVA Mobile Player for S60 was designed for seamless integration with Nokia’s unique two-way slider multimedia devices allowing viewers to toggle between portrait and full-screen landscape mode at the slide of the screen. Control of the TV viewing experience comes from both channel entries and volume control via the device’s physical keys and all other set-top box functions via the application’s elegant and intuitive onscreen UI. This way, users can watch live TV, pause, rewind, skip, schedule at-home DVR recordings and control their home TV watching from a world away, just as if they were in front of their TV in their own living room.

The HAVA Mobile Player for S60 is a Symbian S60 optimized version of the HAVA Player software that Monsoon also provides for PCs and other mobile devices. The HAVA’s unique capabilities enable users to view their home TV simultaneously on multiple PCs in the home network and on network connected mobile devices, including S60 smartphones and Nokia Internet tablets, at home or anywhere in the world.

The HAVA Mobile Player for S60 beta will be available by the end of June 2008. HAVA users interested in participating in Monsoon’s S60 beta program can email Monsoon Multimedia at hava-s60@monsoonmultimedia.com. The HAVA Mobile Player for S60 official release will be available next quarter as a free direct download.

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ShoZu’s newly expanded menu of communities enables mobile users to:

• Upload images to Photobucket
• Upload videos to Dailymotion
• Upload photos as well as change their social status on Friendster
• Sign up to the latest friend and personal ‘tweet’ timelines and post replies from Twitter
• In addition, ShoZu now supports uploads to photo sharing site Twitpic; photo and video sharing community Cellfish; interactive personal video ‘dashboard’ Seesmic; and online storage site Ipernity. 

Other ShoZu-supported sites include Facebook; photo/video communities YouTube, Flickr, Google Picasa, Buzznet, Hyves Kodak EasyShare Gallery, Webshots, Windows Live Spaces, Moblog.uk, Dada.net, Pikeo, Netlog Samsung Fun Club, HotSMS and blip.tv; personal blogging sites Google Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, Vox, WordPress and MetaWeblog; online storage site Box.net and Qipit; citizen-contributed news desks at CNN, the BBC, ITV and Scoopt; and any email and FTP addresses – all from one ShoZu interface.

ShoZu’s service extends today’s burgeoning social media movement from the Web to the mobile world where users spend the majority of their time. Users can send photos or videos to their favorite community with a click, or mass-publish any photo or video to multiple communities and/or email addresses simultaneously, without opening a mobile browser, creating for multiple messages, and paying multiple data upload fees from their wireless carrier.

ShoZu’s free mobile client is currently pre-installed on newer Motorola and Samsung phones and downloadable to nearly 340 additional handset models. A complete list of compatible phones is at www.shozu.com/resources/portal/support/en/support.html

The launch has reportedly helped push Blackberry maker Research In Motion’s stock to an all-time high, a report said.

It’s expected to be available in several months.

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