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Facebook released new Java app “Facebook for every phone”

Friday, July 15th, 2011

Two days ago, Facebook released Java app called “Facebook for every phone”. As it’s name says, it’s compatible with most Java-enabled phones.The software is bought from Snaptu Ltd. for $60-70  million in March. The software is also presented in free Java app “Snaptu”.

Facebook is now much more functional for much non-smartphone phones, which had access to  Facebook only trough their Web browsers. Application provides access to News Feed, Photos, Requests and much more, making it look much more smartphone alike. Two features that are present only in “Facebook for every phone” (and not in “Snaptu” ) are adding friends from contacts in phone and a link to Snaptu’s mini app store.

Facebook has made agreement with 20 mobile operators across 13 countries: Facebook will subsidize payments from using their app for three months, in  order to encourage users to use their Internet access plans.

It is also possible that release is an “counterattack” to Google’s new social network, Google+ (since the actual software is bought in March, and released in July)

You can download the app by visiting link below on mobile device: here

Links:

Snaptu

Facebook

From Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog: http://blog.se-nse.n…or-every-phone/

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Security hole found in Sony Ericsson phones

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

It seems that two research scientists – Adrian Nowak and Karsten Sohr – at Bremen University in Germany has found a security hole in Sony Ericsson phones that can give applications read & write access to the system files, and in worst cases exploit this access. However this can also give users the ability to change or delete some of the “unwanted” system files such as protected ring tones, parts of operator branding and alike.

t650_java_permission_denied.jpg

The “affected” phones – so to speak – are phones sold between 2005 – 2007, which means that it’s everything from the good old K750 to newer phones such as T650 – maybe also the K850 and W910, but that’s not for sure. Only Java phones (those running OSE and not Symbian UIQ) has this “problem”.

Personally I don’t think it’s that much of a problem as the user must grant the application permission to access these files. So please do not worry about this – it’s still totally safe to use your phone and install applications. It just shows that the students at Bremen University should have better things to do than this ;-)

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Themes Creator now working with Linux

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

The official Sony Ericsson Themes Creator tool for creating your own themes for your Sony Ericsson phone has so far only been released for Mac & Windows, but now people with Linux can also get and use the program if Gstreamer 0.8 is installed. I’m guessing most of you guys know what the software is for, so I’m not going to go into any details (leave a comment, if you don’t know what it’s for, and I’ll get back to you!). You can download it here, available in both English and Chinese. You can also find the Windows & Mac version at the Application-page here at the blog.

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Interesting article about changes in A200

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Eldar Murtazin from Mobile-Review has written an article about the changes in the new A200 operating platform in Sony Ericsson phones such as K850 and W910. Here he compares the old A100 with the new one, and shows lots of examples of the new stuff. It’s only available in Russian, so I used Google Translate to translate it. You can find it here! Hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did!

Update! It’s now available in English, too! Check it out here :-)

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