SocialLife is a new application from Verizon Wireless which acts as a mobile gateway that connects users to popular social networking sites. Like any other service, this is quite an affordable application. For $1.49 per month you will be able to go to any of the following social networking sites:Myspace,Photobucket,Livejournal,AsianAve,BlackPlanet,FaithBase, GLEE,MiGente,Rabble and MTV Tr3s.Users can also easily upload their photos directly from the application, without connecting their phone to a PC.

But where’s the support for Facebook,Twitter,and other sites people actually use?

It was only a couple of weeks ago that iPhone OS 2.1 officially launched. The next version iPhone 2.2 and there’s a beta 1 available for developers. What are we going to get from the new version? We don’t exactly know, but since Apple is moving so fast we should expect some decent changes to emerge.

via BGR

Today Sony Ericsson announced the launch of PlayNow plus, a super fast, high quality music download service for Sony Ericsson users, available for use on both phones and PCs.
PlayNow  plus is due to set a new standard for the unlimited mobile music experience, with unrivalled download speeds, high-quality audio and access to the largest music catalogue of any unlimited download service. The service draws from Sony Ericsson’s collaboration with Omnifone and licensing terms have been agreed with all major international music labels-including EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music - as well as thousands of local music labels.

PlayNow plus will guarantee truly unlimited, ‘all-you-can-eat’ access to millions of music tracks. While in the service, subscribers will be able to recommend their music tastes to others in the PlayNow plus community, and at the end of their contract they will keep a number of tracks-DRM-free-from their most played favourites.

PlayNowc plus is designed as the world’s easiest unlimited music service to manage as whatever you do on either your phone or your PC may be reflected on the other device. To add to the discovery and community aspects of PlayNow  plus, TrackID  charts, generated by Sony Ericsson consumers around the world, are also included. To kick-start the PlayNow  plus experience right out of the box, Sony Ericsson plans to include, as part of the service, up to 1000 of recent popular tracks, both locally and globally, with each PlayNow plus phone.

The service is due to launch commercially with operator Telenor in Sweden in the fourth quarter of this year, with further roll-outs around the world beginning in early 2009. A special edition of the Sony Ericsson W902 Walkman  phone will be the first product released with an integrated PlayNow  plus service.

Yestday  T-Mobile G1 announced, Google has released Android SDK v1.0 to the masses. With this release, developers can trust that the applications they write won’t require last minute API compatibility modifications when the first Android handsets make their way to consumers come October 22nd.

With Google’s Android Market launching in just under a month, there’s no better time to start cranking away at your potentially money-printing application.

The Samsung Armani Night Effect phone is the successor of the Samsung Armani P520. A different design and a couple of improved features might make you choose it as your next fashion phone.

Here are the most important features:

The phone will come out in November in Europe first and then in will arrive in South East Asia and the Middle East.

The sub-committee on Financial Digitization of the Bank of Korea has chosen the Universal Subscriber Identity Module or USIM to use the CD and ATM networks of all banks in the said country. It hasn’t provided clear details as to how exactly the service will work, but it says it could be made available in November at the earliest.

They did say, though, that USIM chips will be embedded in mobile phones and users will be able to download the service program, as well as their account information and password onto it. Users will then be able to conduct mobile banking by putting their mobile phones close to sensors in CD and ATMs.

Sony Ericsson HCB-108 is a portable speakerphone created for those who spend a lot of time in their car, on the road.

Sony Ericsson says that the new Bluetooth car accessory has a “Nordic design” and it offers the longest talk and stand-by time from all such accessories found on the market today. More exactly, the device is capable of lasting up to 25 hours in talk-time mode or up to 700 hours in stand-by.

The HCB-108 also features the following: Digital Signal Processing (DSP), echo reduction, noise cancellation for a perfect audio quality and Bluetooth 2.0 compatibility. Weighing 93 grams and measuring 119 x 61 x 14 millimeters, the device comes with a visor clip and a cigarette lighter adapter (model number CLA-61) in the box.

Sony Ericsson’s new HCB-108 car speakerphone will be on sale starting October, in two color versions: silver and black. No word yet on its price, but it’s said to be an affordable one.

Users interested in checking out the new Bluetooth accessory before its commercial availability will be able to do it during the Paris Car Show (October 4, 2008), where it will be presented by Sony Ericsson together with Saab, the Swedish subsidiary of General Motors.

Via softpedia