Not Necessarily News: Cool Mobile Apps

We all know the scenario: You’re in a room and someone’s cell phone rings and everybody goes for their hip, purse or pocket. “Was that mine or yours?” “That’s funny. I have the exact same ringtone.” “Me too.” Those days are over thanks to voiceover ringtones from VoxTone Communications Inc. For the first time, mobile phone and PC users who want to stand out from the crowd can hire their very own voice-over professional to create truly personalized ringtones and desktop notification alerts. VoxTone offers a specially produced pre-alert sound with a personally recorded message, such as a personal nickname, company name or sentence as long as 80 characters. Customers can design their VoxTones at www.voxtoneonline.com and they will be recorded by a professional voice-over artist and delivered either to the recipient’s mobile phone or to an e-mail account within 48 hours.

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“The phone is like a universal remote control for your life.”
— Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in his keynote address at CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2007, where he explained Microsoft’s vision of a work/lifestyle wireless data world.

Mobile phone users everywhere can now keep the faith. Wireless and Web application provider Exclaim has launched MyFaith, a multimedia mobile phone application to offer spiritual well-being and enlightenment from six major religions and philosophies: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism. MyFaith is available for download on most major mobile handset models and features a customizable avatar character, styled after religious figures, including priests, rabbis, monks and imams. These avatars deliver a new prayer, verse or information about a religious leader, saint or angel directly to users’ phones every day. The multilingual application also features a holiday calendar for each religion and philosophy that includes all religious holidays, feast days and festivals. Find religion, check phone compatibility and download the application from the MyApps Web site (www.myapps-mobile.com/myfaith.html) for as little as $2.99 per month.