SEVENCLICK
Mobile Technology Evangelists

ArcSoft, CleNET Technologies, fring™, Google, i-skoot and Mobica. These are the names of the new UIQ’s friends, who have joined the UIQ Alliance Partner Program.

This means that UIQ Technology will support the partner companies in their development of mobile applications and services on UIQ and Symbian OS. The new partners are given access to UIQ roadmap updates, joint marketing, technical support and also have the option to receive early access to UIQ releases.

No doubt, this is good news for UIQ. They are very important companies, and moreover, they are software and services companies, instead of carriers or handset manufacturers.

Via SimplySymbian

This two devices, launched yesterday by the Korean manufacturer, are focused in stylish design rather than advanced functionality.

In a bold statement, Geesun Choi,President of Samsung’s Telecommunication Network said that “the phones design is going to give the female costumers complete convenience and satisfaction.”.

Although women are more likely to be interested in design, I’m my opinion, a well designed but rather useless device should have little chances of success.

Anyway, the main features of these devices are (apart from the outter desing):

• 2 Megapixels camera.
• Bluetooth.
• MP3 player.

The European release is scheduled to be in February (Hungary & Russia) and a few months later in the rest of Europe. They will be sold, unsubsided, at a price of 240 € (SGH-L320) and 220 € (SGH-L310).

Thanks to our friends of VITO Technology, and following the review published this week, we are happy to announce that we are going to give away three Commercial Licenses of Fun Contact 2.0 to SevenClick blog readers.

What do you have to do to win a license? Very easy. Write a comment in the Fun Contact 2.0 review sharing your opinions about the software and the review, or giving feedback about how VITO Technology could improve this fantastic software. We’ll chose the most interesting replies, giving them away of thee licenses. Please, write your comments in English, since people from VITO Technology doesn’t speak Spanish.

The contest is open until 1st February 2008. Hurry up!!!

Easy, isn’t it?

Link SevenClick’s Fun Contact Review
Link i Windows Mobile web site

Motorola has presented the 2007 4Q results, and the situation of the third mobile phone manufacturer is getting worse day by day. Motorola results have drop 83% in 4Q. On his behalf, Motorola Mobile division have dropped from a 23% market share to a 13% by the end of 2007.

Motorola Mobile lost $388 million, shipping 40.9 million handsets during the fourth quarter. Motorola shares dropped $1.97, about 16% of its value. Overall company sales fell to $9.65 billion from $11.79 billion from a year ago.

Very bad news. Dramatic, in my opinion.

Via Mobile Crunch

Polymer Vision is going to release the world’s first cell phone with a folding 5” display, Readius.

This exclusive device exploits the versatility of rollable displays to merge the ‘reading friendly’ strengths of e-readers with the ‘high mobility’ features of mobile phones. The company announces that Readius is optimised for reading for 30 hours without battery charge.

“The 3G HSDPA tri-band phone allows worldwide calls and high speed instant updates from personally selected news sources, special services and email. The Micro SD High Capacity storage ensures easy access to other favorite information and eBooks. Readius also features phone as well as audio capabilities (such as MP3) for podcasts, audio books and music.”, informs Polymer Vision.

We expect to meet Readius in the nex Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and make a complete review of this interesting product.

Link Polymer Vision

A splinter dev team has just released its 1.1.3 jailbreak. This software jailbreak is exclusively for jailbroken 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 iPhones.

If you want, you can download the Mac version of the software from the cre.ations.net website.

We have not tested it, so remember, try it at your own risk!

Via Engadget Mobile

Have you ever wanted to share a video recording from your mobile phone?
Have you ever wanted to broadcast video from your mobile phone?

Solaiemes, a Spanish Start-up, has the solution: Solaiemes LiveServe.

Read the rest of this entry »

SevenClick, company of TB·Solutions group specialized in development and consultancy services in the field of mobile information technology, will integrate Expo Zaragoza 2008 access systems, based on RFID technology.

This way, visitors, workers and accredited professionals will have a unified RFID card. This card will be compatible with both existing access systems operating in the area where the international exposition takes place. One of these systems controls access gates and the other one, restricted areas inside Expo 2008.

Daniel Vecino, CEO and founder of SevenClick, showed his satisfaction with this announcement, since it settles the company’s position in the field of contact-less technologies, such as RFID and NFC. These technologies are key points for the development of logistics and banking enterprises.

“Participating in the, undoubtedly, most important RFID project of the year, and doing it in an international event like Expo Zaragoza 2008, is a major step in our path to leading contact-less mobile services development”, declared Vecino.

On his behalf, Santiago Baselga, President of TB·Solutions Group, highlighted the unstoppable growth of the companies conforming the group and the existing synergies between them, thus conforming a new and unique services and products offer worldwide.

Finally, SevenClick’s CEO revealed that the company is currently on talks with different banking and logistics entities in order to actively incorporate RFID and NFC services on cards and cell phones.

Press Release (english & spanish)
SevenClick website

Nokia and Facebook are negotiating a new alliance in order to include a built-in direct access to the social network in every Nokia device. In addition Nokia may be developing an improved Symbian version of the social network application.

Obviously, this is another step further in the Nokia’s strategy to become an internet company (like the previous steps of launching the OVI platform, buying Navteq, Avvenu, Mosh…). The next logical step would be to buy one of the most famous Web 2.0 applications…. but which one?

Although not confirmed, there is a rumour that refers to a possible purchase of a stake of Facebook by Nokia, thus confirming the Nokia’s will to become an internet giant.

Via PaidContent.

The Nokia flagship device has recently been certifed by the Digital Living Network Alliance. This makes the N95 the first mobile phone to achieve this certication, clearly differentiating it from its competitors.

Moreover, this means that the N95 is able to connect and serve up music, images and videos to other devices around the house. As Nokia is a renown member of the DLN Alliance, it is very likely that the future devices inside the finnish company portfolio may be granted with this certification.

Take a look at the official certificate here (PDF).