SevenClick! Mobile Technology Evangelists

Today is the Firefox download day, it will probably break the most downloaded software record but, What about Firefox for mobile handsets?. There are not too much info but this video below shows how it will looks like in a concept video. It is very similar compared with iPhone´s Mobile Safari browser but of course it looks like better than Opera Mini.

Via Bitelia

One of the most annoying things mobile operators do is calling their data plans “flat rates”.  Flat?? When I subscribe a data rate the last thing I want is having to control how much information I have downloaded. I think calling “flat rate” to a data plan that limits the amount of information you can download is just misleading customers.

Movistar has presented the first REAL Flat Data Plan in Spain. It’s not perfect, but the offer is clear for customers, without hidden information I’d like to say.  Here are the conditions:

• Option “Internet en el Movil”. 10 € and 100 Mb included at 1Mbps / 384Kbps. When you excess this amount, the rest of the information is “NOT CHARGED” BUT THE DOWNLOAD SPEED IS REDUCED TO 68 Kbps.
• Option “Internet en el Movil Plus” (What a name!!! ;P). 15 euros and 200 Mb included at 3Mbps / 1,4Mbps. The excess is not charged and the download speed is reduced to 128 kbps.

As I said before, this is far from being perfect, but comparing it with the rates offered by other mobile operators, THIS IS THE BEST OPTION.

I hope that mobile customers finally lose the fear of mobile internet access. Let’s see how the rest of mobile operators respond to these offers.

Link Movistar Tariffs

It is time for Opera Mobile to bring us the opportunity to work on internet applications without internet connection thanks it will support Gears in its desktop and mobile browsers.

“Opera will have full support for Gears on mobile when they launch this year,” said Charles Wiles, Product Manager for mobile web apps at Google. “Opera Mobile 9.5 will be a great example of a high-quality browser on a mobile platform that supports Gears. This marks the coming of age of the browser as the platform for application development on mobile devices.”

“The forthcoming Opera Mobile 9.5 with Gears will usher in a new era for the Web on mobile devices,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera. “Together, these products will create new ways to bring applications to life on mobile devices. Developers will be able to use this along with Opera Dragonfly to develop and debug compelling applications for any connected environment.”

Great!

Link Opera Press release

Last week, several Indian news media reported that RIM was working with Indian governmet in order to let their security agencies spying on domestic Blackberry network.

The inmediate and natural complains of Indian Blackberry’s clients has made the company to state it’s commitment to “serving security-conscious businesses in the Indian market.”

RIM has answered Indian government that there are some other ways for “government to take care of security concerns”. But Indian government keeps on demanding “satisfactory answers” to its security questions, so we’ll see if RIM is able to maintain its security commintments.

Via EngadgetMobile

Opera Mini 4.1 lets you have the full Web everywhere. This newest release includes several new features, including automatic completion of Web addresses, making it easier to get to the sites you need; tools for attaching files to Web-based email; uploading photos to your blog or other site; downloading attachments from email for storage on your phone; and saving and viewing pages offline.

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Thanks to Mobile Phone Development blog, a really interesting blog for mobile developers, we’ve get noticed of this new useful feature published by Opera friends.

They have called it ‘Opera Mini Connection Help’, and it’s a kind of wizard for configuring the Internet connection of your cellphone. The site includes APN information of many carriers around the world and links to some manufacturers wizards. Only Nokia and SonyEricsson, by now.

If they manage to keep the information updated it will be a really useful helper for a task that is sometimes cumbersome, specially for final users.

Via MobilePhoneDevelopment
Link OperaMiniConnectionHelp

Google has recently announced the availability of mobile image ads for AdWorks and AdSense. Supported image formats are JPEG, GIF y PNG.

As Google Mobile blog claims, “These look like standard image ads for desktop web pages but they are smaller to fit on mobile screens and they run on the mobile content network”.

In fact, an image ad will never weight more than 3KB (a 305 x 64 banner).

Mobile image ads are currently available in Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, the UK, and the US.

Via Observatorio
Link GoogleMobile

“The full web on your phone, fast and free”. This is the answer to the “What’s TeaShark?” question on TeaShark website.

The first beta of TeaShark has just been released. It is JME-based browser targetting MIDP2.0, that relies on a proxy for rendering. The render engine is based on WebKit3 (the last release of the most popular browser rendering engine).

Some included features are: tabbed browsing, bookmarks management, browsing session recording, autocomplete in text boxes,…

We’ll have to keep an eye on the evolution of this new actor on mobile browser arena.

Via XatakaMovil
Link TeaShark

Good news for iPhone owners! a new service created by TheSMESpace converts any well formed XML RSS feed to an iPhone-optimized version with the typical sliding style interface.

Jim Liddle, one of the creators of the service, told “You can book mark the generated site and use it to host your own content and reference it from your own site.”, That sounds great!

If you are on iPhone now, take a look to SevenClick blog optimized.

Via iPhoneAtlas

Congratulations to BlackBerry users! Cortado in cooperation with Box.net, the online storage provider, now offers BlackBerry users 1 GB of free, additional storage space.

With the new solution “Cortado Connect for Box.net” Cortado and Box.net have optimized access to storage services for BlackBerry devices. The software offers all BlackBerry users the ability to manage both their local and online storage as well as transfer files between them.

Moreover, file sharing is an important feature of this new service. To access the service, you just need a BlackBerry Internet Service account. The storage can be used for storing music, video, and other data files

We hope they will soon provide a similar tool for Windows Mobile, Symbian S60, Palm, …

Via Gizmovil