Attention holiday shoppers: Black Friday draws near, and Verizon’s new BlackBerry Curve 2 just hit shelves nationwide. This new phone has quite the sell. It’s slick, it’s speedy, and it’s got iSkoot’s Social Beat preloaded on the device!
That’s right folks - the social media app known for promoting an “all phones created equal” world just made the leap to BlackBerry. Don’t worry, we’re still holding true to our smarter-phone philosophy. But we’re also betting that Social Beat’s integrated, all-in-one social media experience has plenty to offer a BlackBerry contingent that values simplicity, efficiency and of course, connectivity.
That’s why Social Beat is now exclusively Verizon’s BlackBerry Curve 2 users with the “Prosumer” package. Prosumers can find Social Beat preloaded in the BlackBerry’s Applications folder. Just click on the Social Beat icon to fire up installation and launch the app.
The new BlackBerry Curve 2 flavor of Social Beat comes with most of the usual bells and whistles, including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Google Talk and News feeds. Plus (because BlackBerry is swanky) you can move the Social Beat icon to your BlackBerry home screen for easier-than-ever access to all your favorite stuff.
More Verizon BlackBerrys will come equipped with Social Beat in the coming months, so be sure to check back here or tune in to the Social Beat Facebook fan page to stay on top of the latest news.
In the meantime, for you Black Friday veterans in search of the essential one-stop shopping solution, look no further than Social Beat on the new Verizon BlackBerry Curve 2.
We here at iSkoot are VERY pleased to introduce Social Beat, our latest product now available exclusively for Verizon customers in the Verizon Media Store.
In iSkoot’s latest charge to bring internet goodies and social media magic to all mobile phones, Social Beat delivers the top social networks - Facebook, Twitter and MySpace - plus Gmail, Google Talk and RSS feeds from over 50 leading sources on the web. It’s our most advanced feature set to date: users can check their email, IM with friends, comment on, “like,” retweet and @reply to the latest updates in their social networks, view messages on Facebook & MySpace, read @replies on Twitter and get feeds from New York Times, Huffington Post, TMZ, Rotten Tomatoes and Dictionary.com - all within the Social Beat application.
Want to see for yourself? Let us show you around:
Social Beat has launched on 15 top devices at Verizon, with many more coming down the pipeline. For the current list of supported handsets, click here.
Social Beat is iSkoot’s latest foray into the world of integrated social media on mobile, but it isn’t our first. This launch follows the launch of AT&T Social Net, a mobile application that iSkoot developed for AT&T that because available to AT&T’s customers last July.
What’s next on the iSkoot agenda? Only time (and perhaps the occasional blog post) will tell…
In the meantime, check out the newest addition to the iSkoot product family. We’re all very proud of Social Beat and would love to hear what users have to say.
The GSMA’s Mobile Innovation Grand Prix competition aims to spotlight promising entrepreneurs from small and medium-sized companies that bring innovative new products and services to market. GSMA teamed up with US-based investment bank Rutberg & Company to host the competition’s Americas leg (Rutberg does mergers & acquisitions advisory and private capital raising services for companies in wireless and digital media), and the next round is coming up fast!
On iSkoot’s Grand Prix to-do list:
1. Shine up our presentation skills (after a nonstop Fall tour ’round the trade show circuit, I think Mark’s still good and loose.)
2. Head to Redwood City on Dec 1st
3. Go toe-to-toe with 9 other Americas finalists in a round of presentations to a panel of industry experts!
Two of the ten finalists will go on to compete in the final round of the tourney at GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next February. Only one company will bring home the title! Can iSkoot go the distance? There’s only one way to find out. On to Redwood City!
