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3:24 pm- kannuu- partial word completion for mobile phones. My Sprint upstage cell phone is awful when it comes to predictive word completion. I actually cannot type the word “me.”

Maybe this would help.

3:30 pm- truphone

Free calls on mobile phones? You have my attention.

Uses a mobile phone to jump onto wireless connections and uses wi-fi to make calls. They offer a facebook app that has a “call me” button.

Onstage example of using an iPhone making a VOIP call without cracking the iphone whatsoever. Well, that part didn’t work, but hey, it’s DEMO. These things happen. Excellent recovery though.

And….it worked. The VOIP call worked at the last second!

5:39 pm

RedSquare Ventures-

(sorry, their logo is big)

They are releasing something called mixget. From their press release:

MixGet allows a group gathered within audible range of each other to use their mobile phones to play downloaded music together. User can easily DJ-like re-mix well-known popular music tracks, where each mobile plays one component of a multitrack recording (e.g. voices, instruments, sound effects), creating unique sounding audible shows.

This is the most bizarre technology I’ve seen so far at DEMO. Two Russian gentlemen dancing around with mobile phones playing We Will Rock You. Each phone plays one part of the song. The presenter asked “What does it mean?”

The audience laughed. That was a great question.

This does seem fun. I have no idea what you’d use it for, but it does look fun.

Of course, I have to admit I am absolutely the wrong person for this thing. I am completely befuddled by the idea of buying ring tones, wanting customized ring tones on the iphone, etc. So I believe I am far too old to be able to understand this stuff.

Looks fun though.

3:45 pm- mig33-

Worldwide mobile social network with over 6 million subscribers outside the US. This is their U.S. launch. Mobile myspace, ebay, and skype in one.

(I really hope someone that is really interested in the mobile space is blogging this, because I am irrelevant here, but this thing looks very cool. If I find a good write up, I’ll link it here)

Cool- just found good coverage on these guys: om, TechCrunch

They’re not just phone based. If you’re a mig33 member, your info and social network is on both the phone and the web.

Like I said, I’m irrelevant in mobile, but this looks really interesting. Plus, 6 million users can’t be wrong.

3:53 pm-Vitarati-

Search + location + mobile.

Real time personalized location aware technology.

I like this. Say I’m walking down the street and want to find a bar (I know, it’s a stretch). Rather than just searching google, I could use this service. It sees where I am and gives me results based on where I am, what time it is, etc.

Love it.

I could have used this the other day when I wanted to buy a flip video. I was working late, and just didn’t have a chance to pick one up. I saw that they were available at target, but they had the wrong one (30 minute model, not 60). If I had this service, I could have located all the places that had what I want, which is something that isn’t currently available.

Now, I realize it might not work that way now. But it would solve the bar problem. I’m thirsty.

4:00 PM- Global Mobile Technologies LLP

Last DEMO.

Whoa. Holy Grail reference.

The presenter came out with a crown and pretended to be on a horse. Excellent and weird reference. Good stuff.

They claim to be “the holy grail of mobile advertising.”

(mashable’s got it covered here)

Summary: That’s it for the DEMOfall 2007 presentations. I’m off to the last pavilion session, then it’s back here for the DEMOGod awards. I’ll post that here.

If you’re at the conference, come say hi. Booth 66.

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