Free Mobile Applications

Jaiku is a startup providing microblogging and SMS service. Jaiku’s competitors include Twitter, Pownce and so on. In October 2007, Jaiku has been acquired by Google.

Did you ever feel desperate to find a toilet when you were in a strange city. Now there is amizppecompany called MizPee provides service to find the closest toilet with internet enabled mobile phones. Users only have to input their location, then they system will inform them the closest toilet. The most fancy point is that MizPee introduces the concept of social networking into their service, which mean you can find the rate given by previous user.

Google Calender can be used to share events and announce schedules of events on web. If you activities, including appointments, meetings and so on, are mentioned on your website, Google Calender can help your users to find these information and add them to their calender. The most important feature is that, Google calender can provide free SMS reminder. More details can be found from the official instruction.

Mofuse is a company that providers similar service as FeedM8. Both of them can generate a mobile (WAP) version of your website based on the feed output. Both of them will only display the latest 10 posts of your website.

There is a new free service FeedM8 to make a WAP version for your website with RSS output. FeedM8 provides three very useful integration features for your website: 1. HTML header, 2. Automatic Device Detection, 3. Using Your own domain

Except the free UK virtual incoming number, another attractive fact of Localphone is that it provide very cheap rate to call India. The rate to call land lines and mobile phones is only 1.45 p, which is bloody cheap (almost the same as Betamax including VAT). You can use Localphone from a hardware/software VoIP phone or from your land line/mobile phones via local access numbers, which is very convenient.

Mdict was one of the most useful software on it. Mdict is a powerful dictionary software on PPC/Windows Mobile Platform developed by Rayman Zhang from China. It comes with tool to make dictionary files instead of providing dictionary data directly. Now there are hundreds of dictionary files for MDict (with .mdx extension) made by third party.

BBdict is a powerful dictionary software on BlackBerry support external dictionary files. Users can edit dictionary files by themselves no matter they are Chinese to English or English to Chinese or whatever.

Mobile VoIP based direct wireless data network requires handsets with powerful hardware and a lot of bandwidth. Most mobile phones are not capable for that. Callback mode are used to bypass these two difficulties.

To me, Java client of Google maps on mobile phones is more useful, because mostly when I need to check maps I am always on road with access to PC. Mobile GMaps is the free Java client of Google maps I often used.