iPhone gets some AOL Mobile Search love

I know I know, you can not make these things up. But that is the title
of a news release on the INFO MOBILE web site today. Here is what they
have to say about giving specail treatment to the iPhone.

QUOTE

AOL? What's AOL? Remember when AOL was the premier internet service
and the most popular way to get online? Well, AOL's internet service
is pretty much dead at this point, but that doesn't mean that AOL
isn't going strong in the web-world. AOL has just launched their AOL
Mobile Search portal for the iPhone.

AOL Mobile Search will serve up traditional web searches but will
include hits from AOL-owned MapQuest, Moviefone, and AOL CityGuide.
All relevant content is displayed in iPhone-optimized form, complete
with inline telelphone numbers. The search portal places a priority on
iPhone-optimized websites and returns web searches with these websites
at the top of the list.

Point your iPhone's Safari browser to "http://search.aol.com/" and
give AOL Mobile Search a whirl. Let us know how you like it

UNQUOTE

The neat thing about that news story is that AOL offers a search that
returns iPhone lovin web sites ahead of all the others. That enhances
the busy iPhone users quest for mobile data and news even more since
each web site found should be especially well suited for the iPhone
experience.

When you have the best demographics like the typical iPhone user and
an exploding user base you
always get special treatment. Is it fair, certainly not; but that is
the way life works.

Now to be fair to other phones I did a search for special web
treatment and phone specific enhanced web sites. I found ONE such for
Nokia. Here that Larry, I found you a special web site for your web
tablet... www.nokia.co.in/oso
See Nokia users do count for something somewhere in the world. Om
Shanti Om loves you.

NOKIA QUOTE

Bob McDougall Director sales, Nokia India said, "Mobile entertainment
is a key pillar of our strategy and is poised to drive the mobility
industry in a big way. Through this tie up, we will bring alive our
vision of combining internet and mobility to provide consumer an
enhanced media rich mobile experience. Bollywood is the most popular
downloads mobile content besides sports and fashion in India. We are
confident that OSO crazy and the other exclusive OSO content will
provide our consumer an enhanced media rich mobile experience'.

Nokia has worked hard to develop a special Om Shanti Om Crazy
Mobisodes animated characters of OM in OSO, that includes OM- the
Cowboy; OM-the friend; OM - The Dacoit; OM -The Thinker: and OM - The
Super star. Users will be available to watch these short video
episodes that are dubbed in SRK's voice himself.

You can download the above mentioned characters on the Nokia GPRS
enabled mobile devices either by just dialing 55555 or from a special
websites that has been designed for Nokia and Om Shanti Om tie-up,
named the www.nokia.co.in/oso.