Social networking on mobile phone without internet connection

Hai friends, in this post we will discuss two ways for accessing the most common social networking websites anywhere within india through mobile phones without an internet connection. Usually these applications updates your status or brings your recent wall posts on social networking websites by sending and receiving Short Messaging Service (SMS dude !!!). These applications discussed below offers access to twitter, facebook, google mobile services etc...

smstweet   ::  for tweeting on the go via sms

shorthand browser  ::  its a j2me application that can run on your phones that support java  

# smstweet 

Smstweet is a web based application for posting twitter feeds only. You have to register your mobile phone number with the website. After successful registration it will connect your twitter account with the smstweet server. That's you need to do on the website. You can start posting your tweets and mentions by sending the message as formatted below to the number : 

09243000111 (Bangalore)

TWT <space > content of the tweet

# shorthand browser

Shorthand browser is an all-in-one mobile application  for accessing many social networking sites and it  is described as  "the internet on your  phone without a data plan".  Shorthand’s apps use SMS text-messages to send and receive information but look so good you’ll think they use data (they don’t!). “SMS Apps” for all your favorite web sites are bundled within one super simple mobile application, Shorthand. Using shorthand you can access the following websites. 

• Orkut
• Facebook
• Google - maps, cricket, horoscope, news ...
• Twitter
• Wikipedia
• Naukri
• SMS GupShup
• And more!

 

You can download the shorthand browser from the following links 

getjar 

shorthand home

That's all about the social networking mechanism that does not requires a data plan on your mobile phone...