M2Mobi Blog

Today we will fulfill one of our New Year’s resolutions (signing in the gym will take longer): publish the latest Nulaz Release (version 0.5).

We have made an extra effort last Christmas to make it ready for the beginning of 2010, to start the year with great news. Lately we have seen a huge rise of downloads and user activity in Nulaz, and we really want to reward you with new features and improvements.

So, let’s go to the interesting part: what’s new?

1. Improved general look&feel on the application.
2. Higher performance and lower battery consumption.
3. Merging of multiple location information sources into one profile, so we don’t have 5 entries of one restaurant, but we have 5 separate descriptions for this profile, each coming from another content partner.
4. Addition of events to locations: you can see a calendar of upcoming events for each location
5. Integration of Nulaz locations and external feed items. Now you upload pictures to all locations, and provide additional info!
6. Added fancy tab system to the profiles of locations.
7. Full touch support for new phones, as the Sony Ericsson Satio
8. The settings section has been reorganized in a better way.
9. Better user’s location algorithm. More accurate now!
10. Improved the filter for external feeds and locations.
11. Better integration with social networks (as Facebook, Twitter, Hyves…). Update your mood anywhere and have updated all your profiles!
12. Improved the search through people and locations. Now is faster and more accurate.

We have already applied it to the main stores, but unfortunately, they take their time to approve the updates. So, in case you can’t wait, just go with your phone to www.nulaz.net and get it immediately!

And to conclude, we really, really want to thank you. All the feedback we have got recently and all the activity we have noticed in Nulaz make us feel not only happy, but even more motivated to keep improving it for your needs so you enjoy.

Here you have some screenshots of this new release:

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SMS your address in two clicks. You will get a message with an address and a link to a map:

From: Michiel

Message: “Hello, I am at Plantage Kerklaan 25, 1018 Amsterdam. Click on the link to see my position on the map: http://is.gd/543rx“

The mobile phone has two killer applications: making a call and sending an SMS (text message). According to all analysts, location based services (including Nulaz) have been in pole position for becoming the next killer application for many years now. However promising they might be, they haven’t reached mass market yet. Why? It’s a complicated story. That’s why we decided to break it down to something that everybody receives and everybody understands: SMS and Address.

SMS my position is available in 5 languages in the the Nokia OVI Store, the iPhone App Store, Blackberry’s App World, Windows Marketplace, Getjar, and it will be available on Adroid soon.

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Even though we can not access the store from here in Amsterdam, we are available in it. For free! The application process took a while and they were very picky on the screenshots for some reason, but finally we made it. These stores and their submission procedures are a bit mystic, but it is defenitely a good way for us to reach a lot of people. So go ahead and see what we’ve got in store for you!

It took a while….but we got it done (thanks to Remi). For all the business people going for beers on a Friday evening, there is no need anymore to call everybody to ask where they are. Because now, they can just see that on their BlackBerry’s.
Just take your Blackberry browser to Nulaz.com and we’ll sort things out from there on.

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Supported Devices (OS v.4.1 or later):

7250, 7520, 7290, 7100i, 7130e, Pearl 8130, 7100g, 7130g, Pearl 8100, Pearl 8110, Pearl 8120, 7130c, Curve 8310, Curve 8330, 8703e, 8800, 8820, 8830, Curve 8300, Curve 8320, 8700, 8705, 8707

Please email support -at- nulaz.com if you have any questions or problems.