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More preloaded InTouch5 with Bakrie
Aug 25th
Steve, who works out in our Miyowa Singapore office picked this up yesterday in the Bakrie Telecom store. It’s a special Ramadan promotion of some of preloaded InTouch5 clients, including the Nexian C701, and the Huawei C6110 Amanah – preloaded with Miyowa’s InTouch5 Facebook, Yahoo IM, Windows Live, Gtalk, and email clients! Great stuff
Universal Mobile Launch Miyowa InTouch5 Client
Aug 25th
InTouch5™ is going from strength to strength, with yet another release hitting the market just yesterday.
In fact, we have been so busy with all of the latest releases that I’ve been a bit lax on getting all the news out here on the blog (sorry).
So…hot on the heels of the InTouch5™ Social Dashboard clients we’ve recently released with Virgin UK, Virgin France….and a whole bunch of pre-loaded InTouch5 clients with other operators and handset manufacturers (more about those soon, I promise) comes…….
Mes réseaux sociaux from Universal Mobile!
The service sees Universal offer their customers Facebook, Twitter and Windows Live Messenger in an all-in-one client (you guessed it, Miyowa’s InTouch5™ Social Dashboard). And having just seen the promotion they’ve got lined up, I have to say, it’s going to be HUGE.
Check out this amazing/insane video for the service (a shorter version of which will be hitting French TV screens in September), which has already gone viral on Youtube. It’s been watched almost 200, 000 times this week, and judging by the comments, it seems to be spot on.
‘Social Club’ from Virgin Mobile France!
Jun 16th
Exciting stuff: Today sees the launch of Virgin Mobile France’s ‘Social Club’, the latest rebranding of our InTouch5 social network, IM and email aggregation app.
Virgin are celebrating the release by offering lots of juicy offers to their customers – with plans that include ‘Social Club’ starting from 13,90 € per month! That’s unlimited access to Facebook, Twitter, Windows Live Messenger and email – you can’t say much better than that.
Check out this screen-shot I just took from their site.
More news to come…
For the full press release – please take a look at our site.
Miyowa proud to be part of The Messenger Edition by SFR
May 3rd
We love the fact that tens of thousands of customers are buying the ZTE ‘Messenger Edition’ phone from SFR, a handset especially made for, and pre-installed with, Miyowa’s Windows live Messenger client.
Launched in March of this year, The Messenger Edition by SFR, has an onscreen button for direct access to Miyowa’s Windows Live Messenger client, and an AZERTY keyboard for quick fire thumb action. That makes for some very dynamic instant messaging between friends.
SFR has also created this cute site: http://www.meilleursamisdumonde.fr/ (‘The best friends in the world’) which gives friends the opportunity to share their stories and celebrate their friendship.
Thanks ZTE, SFR and Microsoft for working with Miyowa to get this cool experience in to the customer’s hand.
Now that summer has finally (touch wood / fingers crossed / whatever else just might help) arrived, it’s all the more worth celebrating that ‘The Messenger Edition’ lets you take all of your messenger friends wherever we go, chatting as quickly and easily as you could, were you stuck indoors, glued to your PC.
Vivre la mobile internet revolution! Making everyone more mobile. Miyowa are proud to be part of it.
Take a little look at SFR’s Messenger Edition in this video below:
Cool Stuff for All!
Apr 14th
COOL STUFF FOR ALL! That’s my chant for the day.
Often when I talk to people geeks about our InTouch5™ product they reply “cool, can I get it on my iphone?”, but the answer, for the moment is “sorry, no”. And I’m really proud of that. Don’t get me wrong, I have an iphone, I think they’re really cool – but the truth is that they still a minority in the mobile handset market.
Most people, and certainly many of the people in the demographics that we’ve made our product for, aren’t too inclined to spend the amount of money that an iphone costs, on their mobile phone. Maybe they’re studying, rather than earning, or are in their 20s, and haven’t yet hit the big bucks at work. Maybe they’ve just started a family and are budgeting for a whole new person. Whatever the case, their financial priorities don’t necessarily include having the latest smartphone. None the less, they’re people who have lives bursting with exciting activity that they want to share, and loads of friends that they want to share it with.
Which is why I’m proud to say that InTouch5™’s first deployments are on affordable handsets. Not low-end handsets, but mid-range handsets. Cool handsets that can be bought with a pay-as-you go package or as part of an affordable tarif. We’re bringing InTouch5™ to handsets that have lots of smart functions – but that with InTouch5™ on board have considerably more.
Yes, we’re going to be deploying on Android in a couple of weeks, we’re already on Blackberry and yes, eventually we’ll be bringing InTouch5™ to the iphone. And, of course, we’re immensely proud of that too. But, first we’re taking care of a big chunk of the people that we had in mind when we first designed InTouch5™. People who are too busy being out there living cool adventures (and wishing they had a fast, easy and mobile way to share it with their social communities) to be able to stump up the mega bucks for an uber smartphone.
Geeks like me, gadget addicts and big spenders, will have to wait just a little while longer to get InTouch5™ on their handset. In the mean time we’re bringing the high value service to the mid-range phone.
So, there we go, that’s why today’s little chant celebrates: COOL STUFF FOR ALL!!!
Life is best shared, and when accompanied by a good tune
Mar 2nd
I want to share a couple of paragraphs from an article I read this morning in the Times (by Alexi Mostrous). The ideas expressed and the scene imagined, resonate so perfectly with our vision here at Miyowa.
“It’s 4am in a hotel room far from home and you’ve just broken up with your lover. Aside from the minibar, there’s no empathy on offer: not a soul to talk to, no shoulder to cry on.
You update your Facebook status with news of the split. Seconds later someone on the other side of the world sends your smart phone a digital version of What Difference Does It Make?, allowing you and Morrissey to wallow together in self-pity. Someone else sends you Paul Simon’s Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover, which cheers you up a bit. This may sound far-fetched, but the hope of the music industry rests upon such connections. A future where songs are not bought, but accessed via telephones, sent across cyberspace, and passed around friends through platforms such as Twitter, is what is hoped will save music from the twin ravages of illegal downloading and a lack of strategic direction.”
This is uncannily similar to one of the user-case scenarios we worked out when we started building the roadmap for the InTouch5™ Rich AddressBook (give or take a few song titles). Only, importantly, we can assure you that the concept isn’t far-fetched at all. In fact, it is exactly what we are in the middle of delivering. It won’t be ready for the end-user until the second half of the year but yesterday I had my first demo experience of music sharing with the InTouch5™ Rich AddressBook.
For those that don’t know, the InTouch5™ Rich AddressBook aggregates all of a users social networks in to his or her mobile phone address book. That is to say that, next to each of the friends in my phone book, I have their most recent status update and an icon for each of the social networks that we’re connected on. These icons show me whether my friend is currently active on that network or not, and when clicked upon, take me to the InTouch5™ Social Dashboard. Here, I can access the entirety of each of the social networks, and carry out any of the actions that I can on the original wap version. I can also choose to be alerted any time certain (or all of my) friends change or post something new to one of these networks.
In the scenario that we at Miyowa envisaged when we designed our roadmap, I would receive an alert from Facebook, to tell me that one of my best friends had just changed her relationship status to single. If she also decided to post the news on Twitter or Windows Live Messenger, I would see that immediately too. I’d be notified in real-time, and could react in real-time – with any form of communication I choose. I would decide to dip in to my (in our case) last.fm library, chose a song, and send it to her – either as a pop up message, on Twitter, or on Facebook. She, who has since dropped her phone on to her plump hotel pillow, as she rummages in the mini-bar, receives an alert to tell her I’ve sent her something new.
Despite the miles that separate us, my friend has my support, in real-time, the moment she reaches out.
Our prime concern at Miyowa, is about providing the end-user with a service that keeps them constantly connected to the people they care about, in as many ways as possible, and as immediately and easily as possible. On top of the social networks, instant messaging and email services that we already have agreements with – I am really excited about the others that we are currently working in to the InTouch5™ experience. These are really going to make what we finally deliver to the end-user, the most comprehensive social experience imaginable.
We are also thrilled to be part of delivering a service that could help the music industry find a new way to flourish. If there are two things we’re sure of at Miyowa, it is that life is best shared, and even better when accompanied by a good tune.
2010 in review: Under-the-radar trends at Mobile World Congress
Feb 22nd
Excellent article about MWC trends on VisionMobile’s blog http://bit.ly/c6LefL Thank you Andreas !
We had a great MWC 2010
Feb 20th
Miyowa had a brilliant Mobile World Congress 2010. We had loads of interest in our InTouch5™ solution, had great meetings and also got the chance to check out a whole lot of amazing technology from others in the industry.
Here are a few photos from our trip. A huge thank you has to go to Mr Yann Mondon of Retina PR, who, quite frankly, built us one of the coolest booths in the show. And also to the girls who helped us at the booth, who did an amazing job of welcoming our visitors, who were really quick to learn about our products, who poured perfect beers when the rest of us could only pour pints of foam, and who made great company for us at the show.
Check out a few shots from our booth below:
Ooh Hoo! Just tried InTouch5™ Rich AddressBook on Nexus One
Feb 10th
This should really be a tweet or something, but just wanted to share some of my excitement, having just tried out InTouch5™ Rich AddressBook on Nexus One. It’s a sexy as hell phone, I’ve got to say – and, in my opinion, clearly merits all the hype and excitement it’s been getting.
But, ooh hoo, how good is it with the Rich AdressBook inside? Really nice, really pleasant to use, a really simple & efficient way to keep up to date with all that’s happening with your friends across your social networks.
In fact, I like it so much I think I’m going to get me a Nexus One. Not that InTouch5™ won’t be available integrated in to other handsets – I just enjoyed my Nexus One experience so much that I ‘have to have it’ in that.
Welldone to Fred, Fabrice, Gerard, Nicolas & everyone else who worked on it – you guys have done an amazing job!
Can’t wait to show it off at Mobile World Congress (Stand J49, Hall 2…which you know by now )
Who likes gorgeous models anyway?
Feb 3rd
“Twitt Twoooo!” (that’s a wolf whistle)
Just got these through from our P.R dept. Be sure to look out for these lovely ladies at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – they’re advertising our stand J49, Hall 2…..the place to be for InTouch5™ demos….and beer
I like to think that they based their illustrations on Sandra and I, but unfortunately I am just deluded. They are, in fact, illustrations of the 3 “incredibly good looking models” that much of the team volunteered to help cast.
Pah, as if anyone is going to be interested in a bunch of gorgeous models anyway? Nah, it’s all about me and Sandra InTouch5™
Go to our Miyowa @ Mobile World Congress page to read about the real attractions: InTouch5™ Social Dashboard on Nokia 5800 and InTouch5™ Rich AddressBook on Android. The team is really excited to be showing them off for the first time!
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