T-Mobile teams with Google to open up mobile Internet
June 29th, 2005 | by amarfresh |NetImperative reports that T-Mobile will use Google as their WAP entry page. Many people already have Google as their home page on their PC, but your mobile phone? The article states that this is part of T-Mobile’s strategy to offer its subscribers full access to the Internet, as opposed to network branded portals that restrict access to selected sites. My only concern is usability. Typing, for most, on a number pad is slow and clunky. (Not everyone has embraced or even knows of T-9 and the like.) Is it going to be just a search page or are they just outsoucing the portal management to them? If you browse to google.com from your WAP browser today, there is an option to search the “Mobile Web” although the results are definitely not WAP friendly.
I wonder if they have plans to integrate all of Google’s mobile services. If you haven’t already, you should check out Google’s SMS search abilities.
UPDATE: The Register reports that this service will be offerred to users of their high-end phones (”Nokia’s 6800 running Opera, the Sidekick 2, T-Mobile’s MDA Windows-based smartphone, and the SDA IV PDA, due in September.”) The service will initially be available in Austria and Germany with the UK, Netherlands, and Czech Republic to follow.[Link](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/30/tmobile_unwalls_garden/)free ringtone tracfone 2126 nokiappc sprint 6700 ringtoneaudiovox ringtone 8600ringtone a56 siemensalltel ringtone 6255i free nokiaringtone free sanyo ctu 24digi caller ringtone 2c3560 nokia monophonic ringtone Map