I’ve been scouring CTIA for MobileCrunch worthy material and I think I’ve found something. What do you get when you meld Second Life with mobile ad serving with Japanese teenagers? eXplo.
EXplo is an odd 3D environment that runs on almost any handset and allows you to chat, share photos, and view video and stream music in a simulated world. The world I saw was fairly small — a little plaza, a cool music video room, and one other participant — but apparently it’s quite popular in Asia and teenagers go there to visit temporary job listings and watch videos.
You can even create a little “sharing room” where you and your buddies go to project images on the screen in front of you. The graphics are fairly primitive but the movement was quite smooth and the concept, while initially silly, is fairly compelling.
No word on U.S. launch, but you can take a closer look at Gemini Mobile.
i,m a student from malaysia, and currently i’m in the course that part of it are teaching us about mobile content. Actually i’ve been thinking almost the same idea last week for a personal purpose, and im very suprised today i just found through PC magazine about your company and i check your website and here i am. It is a very interesting idea in my personal opinion. I believe thing like this if it been done and move in the right way perhaps one day it will be as important as a pc to surf an internet or playing online games and maybe even better. I also believe it have a very bright future which why i’m interested to learn more about it. I’m very glad to found this site. :)
Just to correct something :P The company that i mean here is the Gemini Mobile Technologies and of course im glad of Mobile crunch too because providing a lot of usefull information for internet users. Peace :)