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axiom
10th May 2007, 06:46 PM
A while back ago, I came on here to introduce a new site called Peekamo.com. It is a mobile social network that allows free text messaging.

Up until now, only Canadians got the 100% benefit from peekamo because US users still get charged for incoming text. Therefore we only solved half the problem for our US friends.

I am the lead developer and co-founder of Peekamo and have recently been working on a WM6 version that allows you to use data (wifi, cellular, activesync or bluetooth) to send and receive text messages for absolutely free.

If anyone is interested in helping us beta text this new application please message me or contact us direct by gonig to peekamo.com and using the contact us email.

Peekamo derives it's revenue by placing an ad up to 30 characters at the bottom of each message. However for the period of the beta test mobile app users will receive no advertising as a bonus incentive when receiving messages using the Peekamo mobile client.

A little tech background on the app and what are it's features:

Send/Receive text messages
Update your status message
Search for friends and groups
Multi-recipient texting
Peekamo's what's peekin' (what's going on with your friends feature)
Upload photos from your camera
Upload video from your camera
Look up profiles
Edit your profile
and more as we move forward.

The ultimate goal is to do everything that you can do on Peekamo.com, but on your mobile.

Thank you and hope to capture a few people's interest.

Al Sajoo
Peekamo.com
jmat
11th May 2007, 06:48 AM
Not to rain on your parade, but all of the US carriers offer unlimited text messaging these days. Cingular just added it, replacing the 3000-per month plan with unlimited. Unlimited messaging is a LOT cheaper than unlimited data, as well..
axiom
12th May 2007, 08:26 AM
Not to rain on your parade, but all of the US carriers offer unlimited text messaging these days. Cingular just added it, replacing the 3000-per month plan with unlimited. Unlimited messaging is a LOT cheaper than unlimited data, as well..

Can you send text over your wifi connection with Cingular or any other US carrier? You will be able to with Peekamo. Unlimited data plan on Cingular costs 19.99, what would you rather have? Unlimited data or a unlimited text messaging plan?

Peekamo is also going world wide. Does your unlimited plan let you text your friends around the world for free? You unlimited texting plan also does not cover texting to Canada or when roaming.

here is cingular's unlimited texting faq.

http://www.cingular.com/learn/messaging-internet/messaging/faq-multimedia-messaging.jsp#mobile-to-mobile

and here is t-mobile's text messaging page.

http://t-mobile.com/shop/addons/services/TzonesDetail.aspx?tp=Svc_Tab_TZones&tsp=Svc_Sub_Messaging&tssp=Svc_Sub_TextMessaging&oscid=4CD51BA7-B5AF-4AB2-85E0-50EC0AF141F9
axiom
16th May 2007, 10:37 AM
Sorry everyone,

We've had a little bit of a set back and had to re-optimize data transfer for gprs and 3g connections, primary testing today confirms that we have achieved our target and we are now reading the application for it's release.

The new release date for the Peekamo Mobile Client is Friday. For those of you who have responded already, you will receive instructions and a cab file install to the email you have provided. If you have not created your Peekamo account yet, I suggest you do so right away and familiarize yourself with the service.

We have limited space available now for the first round of beta testing so if you're interested, please reply to us quickly as we expect to run out available spots by tomorrow.

Once again, thanks to everyone who has shown some interest and is willing to help out.

Cheers.
bleeding_edge
16th May 2007, 10:53 AM
killer idea if you were in australia id certainly use this
axiom
16th May 2007, 11:20 PM
killer idea if you were in australia id certainly use this

We will be shortly, we're just finalizing our deal with our int'l providers, and we should be up and running in several major countries outside of North America within the next few weeks.

The countries include:

Australia
Germany
UK
France
Italy
India
Malaysia
Philippines
Spain
Iran

Ofcourse, we will be adding countries as we move forward.