The new cellity Communicator was introduced to Jessica Dolcourt of CNET. She tested the free mobile software on her BlackBerry phone. Depending on your mobile device you will either download a regular or an advanced version of the free mobile software. The advanced version runs on over 280 devices worldwide, including leading mobile phone manufacturers like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and Samsung. We are currently working on the advanced version for BlackBerry phones. Here you can read the whole article:

“cellity Communicator is an e-mail, SMS, and calling client and service for Java cell phones that’s better than it looks. That may not sound terribly heartening, but it’s no derisive knock. Designing an app that crams phone calls, conference calls, various tiers of texting, and e-mail into a mobile application and still manages to look simple is quite an achievement.

It is arguably overly so. Compared with other mobile communication applications, like EQO and Fring, Cellity Communicator reveals a rather dressed-down interface that requires a few too many clicks to get contacts added and messages started. To Cellity’s credit, the interface can be expanded to include more options with an expert mode. Higher-end Java MIDP2 phones support contact-importing, but BlackBerrys don’t, so those folks will labor to enter contacts by hand.

When it comes to performance, Cellity Communicator does deliver on promises of sending and receiving e-mail and SMS messages through various approaches, and of providing cheap international calling through purchased credit. At this point, phones calls are placed through a ring-back bridge.

Cellity’s selection of text services is wide, but potentially confusing. Besides shooting an e-mail to a contact’s address, there’s free SMS texting to other registered users using Cellity’s integrated FreeSMS product, and a glorified version of FreeSMS that is positioned as an e-mail message one addresses to a cell phone number. Nonregistered users receive teasers from these two message types with a prompt to download the communicator. Sending a regular text message is a workaround, though depending on your plan, Cellity’s charge could exceed your carrier’s cost.

Since Cellity Communicator begins by giving you a unique Cellity.com e-mail address, the app could function as a person’s only e-mail client. However, there’s not much in the way of message management, so I’m hesitant to recommend it for those with other options. The program also supports Web mail-forwarding and replying through another e-mail address.

Sounds like a fine app, right? It is, at least on paper. Despite its demonstrable uses for both low-end and high-end devices, Cellity Communicator simply fails to grab me. It doesn’t help matters that a couple of obvious bugs have been allowed to slip through and that I’m biased against multiple clicks to accomplish a simple task. All things said and done, it is a quite decent app that has a strong following and could secure a stronger future, but which still feels more unfinished and less engaging than its peers.”

The 3rd Mobile Media Summit held as part of the 20th medienforum.nrw is dedicated to the discussion of the mobile Internet. In view of the saturated market for mobile telephony services, the wireless industry is now focusing on mobile Internet services. Mobile devices are intended to integrate online services, Web 2.0, advertising, videos, and games. Already, network operators, software companies and mobile phone manufacturers are hustling for the best starting positions. This combination of wireless telephony and Internet creates new growth potential.

On June 11, 2008 mobile experts meet to discuss on three different panels the following topics:

Mobile Internet - Fighting for the best Start Position

Mobile Social Web - Web 2.0 in pocket format

Mobile Advertising - right next to the Consumer

Sarik Weber, Founder and VP Marketing of cellity AG will be on the panel “Mobile Social Web - Web 2.0 in pocket format” with Olaf Kroll, Director Business Development Europe of Fox Interactive Media/ MySpace.com to talk about starting opportunities and latest trends. Click here to view the complete program.

Following the response and feedback on “Understanding Mobile 2.0” article at Read/WriteWeb, Rudy de Waele created a wiki space to start categorizing the so-called mobile 2.0 companies, the next generation mobile products and services coming to market. Check out the new Mobile 2.0 Company Directory including cellity!

The Web 2.0 Cloud of Kosmar is known by many people. Inspired by the display format for such a complex topic, Heike Scholz of the German Mobile Blog Mobile Zeitgeist created a Mobile 2.0 Cloud. cellity is also listed:

There will be a cool event next week, which we highly recommend: Neptun Crossmedia Award! Don’t miss the chance to nominate in realtime the best crossmedia campaign of the past year at the Neptun Crossmedia Award of Hamburg@work. Become a member of the jury! Together with Lotto King Karl, Corny Littmann and other prominent people of Hamburg, there are six German campaigns waiting to be rated by you live.

Corporation like Casio, eBay and Sony Pictures are presenting at the award on May 29 from 2 pm on. The winner is going to be celebrated appropriately at the following award ceremony at Café Seeterrassen, Planten un Blomen. The contingent of tickets is limited hence you should sign up fast at event.office@hamburg-media.net. You will find more information on http://www.neptun-award.de.

The first German Facebook Developer Garage in Hamburg was a big success. We are thrilled about the very positive feedback we have received so far. We would like to thank all of you for your active attendance. With your contribution to the whole event, we were able to get a great Facebook Developer Garage in the Handelskammer Hamburg going.

In order to make the next event even more successful we would be thankful for any helpful suggestions you may have. Feel free to contact us directly at nina.seidel@cellitygroup.com. Later on, we will sum up your feedback and post a list of the best ideas for the next Garage in the “Facebook Developer Garage Germany” group 

Are you interested in some of the presentations? We placed it here at your disposal. Garage party pictures are published in the “Facebook Developer Garage Germany” group. Take a look!

Best regards,

Your Facebook Developer Garage Organisation Team

Nina Seidel, Sunday, April 20, 2008

Sarik Weber, our VP Marketing and Founder of cellity, met Om Malik of GigaOM in the US. He brought him up to speed on our company, but he also mentioned that we had launched a Facebook application that allows you to send free SMS messages to anyone worldwide. Om Malik signed up for the app but also looked at the competitive landscape and found that there are around three dozen (free) SMS-related apps, but they have little or no usage. Even the best ones get about 500 users a day, though most have fewer than 50 daily users. (Related story: 5 Ways to SMS for free.) The state of these SMS apps is no different from many social voice applications (voice widgets). The only difference being that the VoIP widgets have high incidence of installs but comparatively low daily usage.

These two examples made him question the viability of Facebook as a communications hub. Oms columnist Daniel Berninger has eloquently made an argument for a social directory that uses Facebook and other social networks to break away from the current paradigm of numeric phone numbers. He is part of a group that believes social networks could be used to authenticate our “communication” relationships. Om Malik does not necessarily disagree with Daniel, but the usage metrics of SMS and voice apps makes him wonder if Facebookers really want to do anything more than throw Vampire Bites, Scrabble and pretend to have a lot of friends.