FON the largest WiFi community in the world has made an agreement with BT. Existing BT wireless users (I am actually one) need to opt in to be part of the BT FON community. Why is this on a mobile blog… well obviously with the number of WiFi enabled devices such as the iPhone (US now and UK next month) and the N95 this will provide more potential access points to connect via. The deal has been in the works for a while, we reported on rumours in Feb this year.

In Japan NTT Docomo has released a health focused phone that amongst other things monitors your pulse and has a pedometer.

MySpace has announced a deal to be packaged with O2 handsets. O2 is the only other carrier in Europe besides Vodafone to have a MySpace mobile centric interface. The service will include free data charges for November and December.

Fox News Radio has announced a mobile radio offering called Fox News Radio Mobile. The service is delivered in partnership with GotVoice and delivers news twice daily to voicemail boxes.

Nokia beta labs has released an application called Conversations. The application groups SMS messages together that are part of the same conversation (much like the iPhone does and like Gmail does for email).

Richard T.

Anyone interested in the last days of MVNO Disney mobile will be very interested in this post. A fascinating insight into the goings on within a MVNO.

Nokia has continued to add video content to its Nokia Video Centre offering. New content agreements include CNN, Sony and ROK (who we discussed yesterday).

Adobe has released their latest Flash player for mobile devices. Flash Lite 3 allows viewing of popular video sites such as YouTube. The software will work on Symbian S60 v2 v3 and Windows Mobile v5 devices.

Richard T.

Voice to Text provider SpinVox has signed an agreement with Vodafone Spain. The service allows callers to leave a voicemail which is then also delivered as an SMS to users (I use the service here in the UK… its great!). SpinVox has forecast 6 million subscribers globally by first quarter 2008.

Mobile advertising firm Soapbox Mobile has been bought by Single Touch. Soapbox provides a number of text based advertising solutions including applications such as SMS voting and SMS quizes.

Wupima, a firm that distributes Chinese mobile content to North America, has bought Hook Mobile. Hook Mobile, in its own words provides the “first cross-carrier MMS platform in the U.S. and enables content owners and advertisers to create viral marketing campaigns”.

Richard T.