Path’s Second Iteration Is Less Photosharing And More Everything Sharing

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In the mobile startup tradition of quick product iteration, Path Two has hit the app store this evening -- expanding beyond photosharing to people, place, music, chat and sleep mode sharing. Path founder Dave Morin says that the second phase of Path is about giving people a place to "capture all the experiences" on their path through life.The existing Path UI on iOS and Android has been completely revamped (beautifully) and is basically a multimedia timeline. You can right swipe for settings, left swipe to add friends, and swipe down to view your own or your friends' Paths. To initiate a Path post, click on the + button in the left corner and out pop six option icons.]]>

Viber Adds Photo, Location Sharing Abilities To Its Android, iPhone Apps

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Viber Media, maker of fine Android and iPhone applications that let you call and text your buddies for free, is today releasing upgraded apps for both aforementioned platforms. Viber 2.1 comes with a fresh voice engine, providing users with HD-quality VoIP calling and improvements of call quality when calls are made over low-bandwidth networks.Also new is the ability to share photos, enabling users to exchange picture messages by adding new or previously taken photos to texts, or sending photos by email or via Facebook. In addition, Viber is introducing location-tagged messages that allow users to identify their whereabouts to recipients.]]>

BlackBerry Tag brings NFC sharing between phones

RIM has announced the new BlackBerry Tag service, utilising the NFC capabilities of its recent smartphones.

TechRadar exclusively revealed that RIM was working on enabling NFC BBM contact sharing at the launch of the BlackBerry Curve 9360, and now RIM has added that functionality in, with a host of extra applications too.

The BlackBerry Tag service will also allow users to share contact information, files, photos and other multimedia content by opening up the NFC gateway on the phone and tapping the phones together to initiate the transfer.

RIM has also promised to open up the BlackBerry Tag API to app developers too, so new applications can take advantage of the NFC functionality to create new ways of interacting with other phones.

NFC-ing into the future

Currently RIM has only got two phones in the UK market that can take advantage of the BlackBerry Tag service, the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and Curve 9360, but we expect nearly all future models to be enabled with the service.

Nokia has also been heavily backing the contactless technology, offering a similar service with its latest batch of Belle-enabled phones, with multimedia sharing a big part of the announcement of its new handsets.

RIM will offer the new BlackBerry Tag service when it brings a new BB OS 7 update, which it has declined to give a release date for at the moment - we're hassling to see when this will be.

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BlackBerry Tag brings NFC sharing between phones

RIM has announced the new BlackBerry Tag service, utilising the NFC capabilities of its recent smartphones.

TechRadar exclusively revealed that RIM was working on enabling NFC BBM contact sharing at the launch of the BlackBerry Curve 9360, and now RIM has added that functionality in, with a host of extra applications too.

The BlackBerry Tag service will also allow users to share contact information, files, photos and other multimedia content by opening up the NFC gateway on the phone and tapping the phones together to initiate the transfer.

RIM has also promised to open up the BlackBerry Tag API to app developers too, so new applications can take advantage of the NFC functionality to create new ways of interacting with other phones.

NFC-ing into the future

Currently RIM has only got two phones in the UK market that can take advantage of the BlackBerry Tag service, the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and Curve 9360, but we expect nearly all future models to be enabled with the service.

Nokia has also been heavily backing the contactless technology, offering a similar service with its latest batch of Belle-enabled phones, with multimedia sharing a big part of the announcement of its new handsets.

RIM will offer the new BlackBerry Tag service when it brings a new BB OS 7 update, which it has declined to give a release date for at the moment - we're hassling to see when this will be.

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Microsoft adds visual voicemail and internet sharing to Mango

Microsoft has revealed that Windows Phone 7.5 'Mango' handsets will also offer visual voicemail and internet sharing via wireless hotspot functionality.

The new version of the Windows Phone operating system has started its global roll-out today with Microsoft promising it to all current handsets by the end of October.

However with today's launch widely expected, the previously unannounced new features are somewhat of a surprise.

Five device support

Depending on support from networks and hardware manufacturers alike, Windows Phone 7.5 will offer internet sharing for up to five devices.

The functionality is already available to iPhone and most newer Android phone owners, but it seems like this will only be available on new handsets, not those existing devices updating to 7.5.

Also new will be visual voicemail functionality, which will also depend on permissions from your network carrier and the capabilities of your handset.

Adding to that, there's also a new version of the web-based Windows Phone App Marketplace, which will allow users to buy apps from the web and have them automatically download to the phone.

Check out our Windows Phone 7.5 Mango hands-on review.

Via: All Things D, Mobile Burn

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