Interesting news from the world of mobile phones

Yesterday, I was going through the RSS feeds I’ve subscribed to and I found some of the news items very interesting. Check it out.

GPS enabled mobile phones have a ton of useful features. You can get traffic updates, get roadmaps, convert currency and other measurements, store photos, and even find where your friends and family are through a color-coded map in your mobile phone screen.

American Airlines (AA), like I’ve already mentioned in this blog, has a simpler, scaled down version of its website for mobile users. You can check out your itinerary, check flight status and luggage status, view vacation deals available, book flights, and request for upgrades. The pages in this site are available both in English and Spanish.

Hugely popular website hotels.com has developed a web application for Apple iPhone and iPod touch users. Using this application, you can access a wide range of information like photos of hotel rooms, their descriptions, amenities, and the number of rooms available and book your room then and there.

Blyk, the UK based company I’ve talked so much about, has reached the milestone of 100,000 subscribers in the UK alone. The interesting point is that they set a deadline of one year to get 100K subscribers and launched the program last year. However, they’ve reached the milestone six months ahead of their deadline.

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