Rating: Communicator application, with new Addressbook2.0, enters open beta today
The cellity Communicator goes into open beta mode today. The application, which can be used on any phone that supports Java (not just smartphones), acts as a contact aggregator and communications tool.
The latest addition to Communicator, Addressbook2.0, can access and store contact information from pretty much any source. Phone contact lists, Outlook, email providers like Gmail and Hotmail, social networking sites… all your contact information can be accessed and saved from these sources. Addressbook2.0 can then collate all this information for you, so that all of your various contacts across all the media you use can be stored in one place. It will even gather all of your friends different registered sites under the one name… so under one heading you’ll find someone’s mobile number and all of their social networking updates.
Does it do anything else?
Well, that’s what Addressbook2.0 does itself. Communicator comprises a suite of programs, but Addressbook2.0 has been designed so that you can use it to access all of them. So the communication tools can all be used through Addressbook2.0, like making cheap phone calls, sending free SMS, sending emails, setting up conference calls, sending Twitter messages and updating your social networks.
From the release:
“We are very pleased to make the new cellity Communicator and its innovative address book available to a wider audience in the open beta test version,“ says Nils Weitemeyer, CEO and co-founder of cellity AG. “Alongside Outlook, cellphone usage, Twitter and emails, almost half of all Internet users are part of social networks mostly to carry on personal communication and maintain their personal contacts. Our new Addressbook 2.0 provides a crucial tool giving users access to all their current contact data so they can communicate using a single application.”
What we think?
cellity is a little late to the game when it comes to updating social mobile networks from one source. That function has been available for a while… but rarely in a package as nice as Addressbook2.0. The possibility that I could pull out my mobile and be able to access all of my social networks, check my emails and make a bargain phone call from one app is absolutely great. But is it sufficiently convenient that it will draw people away from their current tools?
Hi Cian,
thanks a lot for your great article about our new cellity addressbook 2.0. You captured the main benefits for the user well, we really appreciate it. Just one question comes to my mind as you mentioned other tools that could do the same job. Would you be able to name a few? We were looking and looking all around the web and couldn´t find anything, that would come close to our new service, working as a web app, as a mobile web app and as a mobile client at the same time and including such a variety of relevant sources, where people keep their contacts.
Sarik
Hi Sarik,
If you re-read my comment at the end, you’ll see I’m agreeing with you! All the INDIVIDUAL functions provided by Addressbook2.0 are covered by other providers/developers at the moment, but none of them put it all together in one package. I’m sorry if I didn’t make that clear enough.
I came to know that cellity is no more available for free sms. Do you know something about it?
Actually this company’s current service will be discontinued due to the Nokia buys Cellity for social networking expansion. So I don’t think so it will work for other brands.
I have removed cellity from my Sony Ericsson and installed Messmo new version.. Really it is better than cellity..