Mobitrends

Vodafone just introduced Vodafone360 service built on top of Vodafone People (formerly Zyb). With 360 Vodafone takes a global approach with a strong convergence between the phone experience and the web, merging social networks and handset contents in a very nice way.
The service will come first on the Samsung 360 H1 Vodafone which works on a LiMo platform (c’mon guys, why do u really need yet another linux platform… stop fragmenting even more the Mobile world… at least if that would mean no more closed SHP) and should be available as a download on other platforms (with limited functionalities I suspect, even OpenOS may not allow access to all the handset resources demonstrated in this video).

After announcing the end of their support for Pictures uploads, now it has become clear what Vodafone intends to be doing with Zyb by focusing on the social network address book side. My guess is that it shall become the RCS service around. If you missed that, RCS is for “Rich Communication Suite” and is a standard for IMS-based services for skype-like social contacts management (so many buzzwords one after another gotta mean something right ?).
Anyway check this video from the Zyb team to get a grasp of their new re-focus:. UPDATE : Vodafone removed all the videos…. so I’ll show you RCS instead I guess!