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Telkomsel's AppZone

While iPhone users can enjoy almost all paid apps in Indonesia's iPhone App Store, it is limited or almost none for Android and BlackBerry enthusiasts to experience such luxury.

Both Android Market and BlackBerry AppWorld is still closed if accessed from Indonesia for their paid apps. There are 3rd party though, like Mobihand and Handango.

Indosat was previously announcing its own App Store but I haven't heard any news from them ever since. Telkomsel, in other hand, seems already taken one step ahead by unveiling its AppZone. Go to http://appzone.telkomsel.com from phone or computer.

Advertised in national newspaper today, AppZone contains not only BlackBerry and Android apps, but also Java apps that can be installed in most phones.

I believe this is good trigger for Indonesian mobile developers to finally published their creations and make money from it.

Telkomsel AppZone is exclusively available for Telkomsel subscribers. Unfortunately, when tried to send the link/app to a number, no SMS confirmation received, blocking user to obtain app bought. Don't know what's wrong with system, but hope that it will get fixed as soon as possible.

Yahoo! Messenger & Yahoo! Mail App for Android is now available

Thats right my fellow Android users, the long and awaited Yahoo! Messenger & Yahoo! Mail App is now available in Android Market.

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Twitterrific 3.0 hits the App Store

Tumblr iPhone app updated to support iOS 4

Tumblr updated its iPhone app today. Version 1.2 carried plenty of changes and a redesign of its interface. No longer you're faced with three tabs, it's now just two, Post and Dashboard. Settings tab has been relegated to a tiny button on the top right of the screen.

It now supports native reblogging, click through URLs from photo and link posts, has German localization and has been made compatible for iOS 4 task switching.

Send to Twitter still unfortunately does not let you specify the content of the tweet which means tweets from Tumblr look like unfinished thoughts instead of links to blog posts.

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iTunes Store app in South East Asia is alive!

More details on iMovie for iPhone

The other day I posted a piece about iMovie for iPhone and left a question unanswered. Today, that question and a few other concerns have been resolved thanks to Jeff Carlson at TidBits whose contacts at Apple cleared up a few things. 

According to Carlson, 

iMovie for iPhone

Along with iPhone 4, Apple introduced iMovie for iPhone at the Worldwide Developer Conference. Mac users are already familiar with what iMovie is and what it does but others may not be. With an iPhone that is capable of shooting 720p high definition video, it makes complete sense to have a fully functional video editing software that lets you produce a proper movie on the go.

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Gowalla for BlackBerry

Trying to catch its closest competitor in location based section, Foursquare, Gowalla finally unveiled its own app version for BlackBerry.

Previously, Gowalla has long decided to focus on their own iPhone and Android app, leaving BlackBerry users to use mobile web instead. Yet, this decision won't increase its customer base massively -- again, BlackBerry is still dominating USA's smartphone market share by 35%, latest report said, forcing Gowalla to create BlackBerry app.

I once tried Gowalla's mobile web, both in OS4.* and OS5.0. While it's better in OS5 browser, thanks to Gears add-on, Gowalla won't appeal that much due to its heaviness. FYI, Foursquare's mobile web is much simpler and won't require heavy usage of GPS, allowing non-smartphone users to participate.

Knowing their mistake, Gowalla stood up and eventually swallowed their words. Here comes the contender of location based app in BlackBerry realm.

The app itself is tagged beta, currently at version 0.8. This status allow them to make mistake(s) in their app, hoping to be fixed for the next edition.

One more thing, as Gowalla heavily depends on GPS coordinate, I believe this version won't support phone without built-in GPS module, leaving Gemini users in pain.

After installing and signing in, which was surprisingly fast, we will be greeted by pop up, saying there's updated version. I click the button and eventually it's still the same version with something I have installed. That's bug #1.

Passing the pop up, there will be 3 tab available, Activity, Spots, and Passport. Honestly their UI is somewhat better than Foursquare with fancy colors and nice icons. Ouw, and the loading is quite smooth, obviously very different experience compared to its mobile web version.

Activity records anywhere your friends checking in, including new friend request. Spots listed all venues to be checked in, while Passport will reveal your own history.

When choose not to sign out and continue your BlackBerry routines, Gowalla will pop friend's activity in any screen.

While I like Gowalla's UI better, I feel dissapointed that this BlackBerry app won't allow to add new venue. As their GPS rule is more strict than Foursquare, I found out their app won't easily adapt with GPS's new coordinate.

Moved out to a mall from my place, Gowalla failed to show venues from correct location, while Foursquare in the same handset did a better job. I tried to refresh my GPS location manually but didn't solve the problem.

What's good of this location based app if it won't show you the right venues in the right location? Being in beta version make it be forgiven but hopefully it will be fixed entirely in the next edition.

Anyway, for those who'd like to try, check this link out and tell us your impression: http://gowalla.s3.amazonaws.com/blackberry/Gowalla.jad

Seesmic for iPhone finally out on the App Store

The big eyed raccoon has finally made it to the iPhone. Seesmic today has released Seesmic for iPhone, its multi-service social networking client which hooks up to Facebook, Twitter and Ping.FM. The long awaited app is available for free from the App Store and weighs in at a meager 1.6 MB.

Seesmic for iPhone presents itself as a panel-based application which lets you assign multiple Twitter accounts, searches, lists, trending topics, Facebook account, and other services on individual panels. Similar to the iPhone's own home screen, Seesmic lets you add panel after panel and will add pages as it sees fit. The panels can be rearranged and removed by holding down on one panel just like managing iPhone apps. On each timeline, the panels are represented on the top left with an identifying icon for easy switching between the views.

This app features Evernote integration to save tweets, notes, and links to the online storage service. If you have Evernote installed, it will immediately send the selected tweet to that app. Unfortunately this means quitting Seesmic. There doesn't seem to be support for Instapaper, however.

If you have multiple accounts setup on Seesmic you can send your update simultaneously even across different services. Official and unofficial retweets are supported and there's an option to choose between using RT and via for the old retweet method from the app's settings which is located in the Settings app.

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Review: Yellow Pages BlackBerry app

Once upon a time, when Internet hasn't available in every home. Yellow Pages was the most powerful tool about business directory that contains address and phone number information. Every year, I remembered that Yellow Pages book grew even thicker -- since business environment was in perfect condition -- until the Internet was invented. It is totally changing the way we perceive information.