beoFrenz Instant Mobile Messenger
March 12, 2008 by colbert low
Filed under Announcements, Cellphones
I am sort of an Instant Messaging (IM) addict and I also check emails daily unless I go on holiday trips. I always wanted to message friends or business partners via IM ever since I had 3G access on my Nokia N95 and I chanced upon this site that has its HQ in downtown Kuala Lumpur. Its’s a Meebo replacement that resides on your mobile phone called beoFrenz. On the site’s description, it says:
BeoFrenz keep you update with your social life, with allows you to connect to MSN, Yahoo, and its own community Beo. Besides mobile, its has a social communities website, http://beofrenz.com which allow you to create your own communities.
The Project Manager, Chris told me to drop by one day and speak to their CEO (Mr Sia Hui Yong) to get an insight on what they really do….
Q: What is the latest beoFrenz version and what does it run on ?
Its currently on the 0.9 stable version and new updates are ongoing at the moment. Right now we support the Symbian 60 platform and we may move to S40 later.
Q: How many users does beoFrenz have ?
We had about 100 beta users in early 2007. Since we had a small tie up with Nokia Indonesia, where Nokia 6500 phones were pre-installed with our software, it had grown to over 500 members.
New Update : Chris tells me that they already have around 11K users, and they’ve partnered up with virtualmalaysia.com.my, to leverage on the travel portal’s 30K user base.
Q: What special features are there on beoFrenz ?
Well for one thing, its coded on Java which means it runs on all mobile platforms like Symbian and Windows Mobile. The screen size will auto adjust on your mobile phone too.
Q: What IM platform does beoFrenz support?
Yahoo, MSN, Gtalk, Jabber. There are no plans for AIM yet
Q: Are chat groups or chat rooms supported?
We don’t have plans for that yet. We will have to see.
Q: How does users get support?
We have a team working 5×8 on weekdays now (Malaysia time GMT+8). The support email is on the main site.
Q: Tell me more about the beoFrenz Ads platform?
We can integrate ads into our software whereby it will show up as a Contact on the main screen. A click on that contact ie say DELL, will pop open another tab that shows the advertiser’s content. It’s a non-intrusive way compared to pop ups and banners. We can also integrate RSS feeds from blogs into the beoFrenz content area. Advertisers can also generate reports on the login screen or csv format.
Below : beoFrenz screen on a mobile phone
Below : beoFrenz Ajax website
hey Buddy, its a good information but I think there are some services who provide the same services like e buddy and meebo.
ebuddy and meebo is only used if you login via a browser. With beoFrenz, it becomes a mobile app you can install on your phone
but its not working in my HP iPaq smartphone
Hi Josh, there is ebuddy is starting to move into mobile, wat our differences is that we are partner-oriented, meaning we can customized our beofrenz to suit partners need, help our partner to build community. if you have any website which intetrest in creating community using mobile app or even using a WAP site, we are happy to help.
we are working with windows mobile phones, so once we developed it, will update you all.
Fring could be the other choice. It would be able to sign into Skype and other services at one time. You could also make SIP calls too. At the moment, it only works on smartphone. I am using it with my Nokia E61 but hopefully, a version for normal phone will be out soon.
beofrenz does not do SIP phone, but it can work on ur E61, BeoFrenz is meant to create community.bes of it, it can work as WHITE LABELLING, or customized theme.
would you like to partner up with beoFrenz?