Cheap, useful mobile phones from Synchronica - function is more important than form

GoMo News has been following Synchronica for a long time now - mainly as a provider of mobile email services for extremely low-tech phones. But the company has kicked it up to the next level today, with the announcement of MessagePhones. Rather than just release cheap messaging services for low-tech phones, Synchronica has released two devices specially designed to take advantage of new, low-cost mobile messaging options.

Microsoft’s Find your lost phone facility seems broken

Rating: Would you pay to nuke your handset via MyPhone?
An intriguing facility mentioned by Microsoft at the Windows Phone (Mobile 6.5) launch was the ability to erase and/or lock your Windows handset remotely. What the company omitted to mention is that it forms part of its Premium MyPhone service.
MyPhone is an intrinsic part of Windows [...]

Mobile operator round-up: AT&T on WiFi, sales, signings and government intervention.

AT&T is reporting massive success on the WiFi front - and attributing it to smartphones. Government intervention seems to have yielded positive results in the South African mobile market. Mobile messaging from Synchronica has found its way onto the phones of another operator’s customers… and more.

Mobile email moves east as Synchronica wins Middle East contract

Despite major competition from sources like Nokia, Synchronica continues to drive it’s low-tech mobile email solution in developing markets. The provider has just announced a Mid East operator win - and as per usual, it is being hush hush as to who it is.

More mobile email in Africa as Synchronica wins second operator deal

Mobile email provider Synchronica has won a second contract in Africa. The first win was announced at the end of July - and both are terribly mysterious. While Synchronica is happy naming time-frames and prices, no information on which African mobile operators it is dealing with has yet emerged.

From Latin America to Africa: Synchronica wins mobile contract with un-named African operator

Just a few weeks after closing a third operator deal in Latin America, Synchronica has announced a $165,000 deal in Africa. Synchronica will be providing it’s Mobile Gateway solution, a push email service based on SMS and MMS.

Mobile email provider Synchronica wins another operator deal

Push email company Synchronica has announced a third mobile operator win in Latin America. The mobile email provider offers a mobile internet independent service - even low end phones with no mobile browser can send and receive email via SMS.

Push email for the masses from Synchronica

Rating: Billions of handsets can now receive ‘push’ emails
If your handset has a screen, then it can now receive ‘push’ email. That’s the promise with SimpleMail from Synchronica. It’s formally launched afterthe company’s recent AxisMobile acquisition.
The combination of the two companies’ technology really does mean that you can receive email pushed down to even the most [...]

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