Cricket Communications which is a leading provider of unlimited wireless services has announced a mobile video service that will cost $5 for downloading short clips. Cricket subscribers can add this service to any of their subscribed plans. The service will also allow Cricket customers with video enabled devices to first try the service and experience mobile video firsthand.

This mobile video service will allow users to view short (one to four minute) video clips directly from select handsets, which include music videos, artist interviews, music documentaries, sports clips from FUEL TV such as soccer and mixed martial arts, entertainment news from Hollywood Insider, movie trailers, horoscopes, comedy, cartoons and selected Spanish language content. This service will be available for supported handsets through a WAP browser.

O2 in Slovakia has bought a new service for its customers. Opera Mini Browser is set to come pre-installed in cell phones from O2. This means that with Opera Mini Internet browser the internet would be in subscribers pocket. This will really change the ways users browse internet, there would be no sluggish download of pages and higher internet costs any more.

O2’s “Internet-to-Go” will be available on several models with both pre-installed and over-the-air (OTA) versions of the Opera Mini browser. Opera mini will offer many other features; among them are the mouse and the cursor, bookmarks with favorite pages and the RSS functionality.

Pocket browser will supports hundreds of types of mobile phones if the mobile supports Java and GPRS. This actually is supported by vast majority of the mobile phones on the market. With opera mini browser O2 customers can browse whole Web on their mobile phones which includes the latest news, weather forecast and timetables which means huge source of info is now browse able.

O2 customers don’t need to worry about lengthy download of pages. The browser is specially adapted for the conditions of the mobile network. User can really save money with fast browsing and less download storage.

Japan KDDI today announced availability of the Pantech W62PT CDMA phone for its customers. Adopting a 2.6″ QVGA TFT LCD main display with 240 × 320 pixels and a 1.2″ external one with 128 × 128 resolution, the W62PT features a 1.3 megapixel CMOS camera on the back side, and 2GB microSD card support.

Weighing about 124g and measuring 50 × 100 × 17.2 mm it provides approximately 260 minutes of talk time and about 360 hours of standby time. KDDI will begin to sell this phone tomorrow, August 30, in 3 color variants: silver, pink and gold, however no words about price was announced.

Pantech W62PT

Google has launched Android Market, a content distribution platform for Android powered devices. Google itself is hosting this platform. The platform is very much the same as Apple store but it does not have a application process system which approves every application before listing it.

Google talks about The Android version of the iPhone’s App Store stressing that it’s a “market” (free, open, etc) rather than a “store,” Android Market does not require an approval process for developers to have their applications listed. The best thing that helps to exploit the good applications is the rating and comment system which is similar to YouTube. Android Market has a built in functionality just like Apple’s version which provides the infrastructure to host apps in a centralized place, version and update control.

The first Android handsets will come with a beta version of Market that supports free downloads only but long before the devices to come out. Google has hosted Android Developer Challenge and best of all it has announced the winner. Go Cart won the best application prize which is developed by OMG. GoCart is bar code reading application which uses the camera on device to read a barcode. Once read it identifies the product and then search online and local stores to find you the best price.

Android Market

source Android Developers Blog