Métro is a free guide to public transport in more than 250 cities and downloadable on PDA and Smartphone.

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End2End, a service provider for mobile data services, and Sonofon, the second largest mobile operator in Denmark, are launching an mblogging service.

SUbscribers to the service can create their own mblogs by uploading pictures taken with camera phones, add text to their photos via the internet, and soon be able to edit text using mobile phones.

From DM Europe.
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Last August, fire fighters in Fife (Scotland's east coast.), working with the Dunfermline Queen Margaret Hospital (QMH), were given mobile phones by Orange to send photos of road accidents. The medical teams would have had a chance to view injuries well before victims arrived at the hospital.

However, since its launch in August, camera phone photos were transmitted only six times, probably because many technical problems plagued the project: photographs taking hours to arrive on screen, pictures unable to be viewed in focus when enlarged, and fire chiefs with the mobile phones arriving too late at the scene. In one instance, pictures were transmitted to QMH’s computer only for the patient to be taken by ambulance to another hospital.

Alan Mann, divisional officer for community safety, with Fife Fire and Rescue Service said: “It’s a good concept but perhaps the technology is just not there yet.”

More in the Sunday Herald, via Reiter's Cameraphone Report.

VTT Technical Research Centre in Finland has developed an audio guidance system on mobile phone for the visually impaired.

The system combines GPS and mobile phone with Internet access to keep in touch with databases such as public transport routes and schedules, roadworks, news, weather services, and other information useful for blind people. The application plans the journey and guides the user through a voice-enabled feature, informing him of the arrival of the vehicle and the stop where he has to hop off.

The service, so far only available in Finnish, wants also to appeal to people with normal eyesight but no sense of direction and people travelling a lot in their work.

From MoreMobile.
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Tourists in San Francisco can ditch their city map and find their way without getting lost, if they rent a GoCar vehicle, a three-wheeled, two-seat car that looks like a motorcycle merged with a golf cart but with a global positioning system as their tour guide.

GoCar, manufactured by Trigger Technics of the Netherlands, guides the visitors via a GPS unit and a computer database of audio clips commenting 105 San Francisco sights and features. When the G.P.S. system senses that the cart is passing one of the points in the database, the stereo plays a story or gives directions.

Details in The New York Times.

Cellular Corporation, a U.S. wireless service provider, and film critic Roger Ebert will assist mobile phone users in choosing films with "Ebert Mobile Movie Reviews," an application to download on the handset his critiques on current or old movies. Users can select between five categories: Now Playing, Great Movies, Search Movies and Rentals, Browse by Genre, and Weekly Top 10 and narrow down selections by sorting by title or rating.

More in TMC Net, via Mocco News.