Social network launches for Windows phones only

GOLLY, GOSH. Yet another social network aimed at mobile users. This one takes the biscuit, though. Saki Mobile claims it is aiming at 300 million users globally. But is only currently accessible on around 100 Windows based smartphones.

Never mind, because its creator - Digital Standard Inc (DSI) - claims there's soon going to be a new version called Saki Lite. It'll be available before Q3 2007 and guess what? It'll use WAP to enable thousands of mobile phones to access the service.

Saki does, however, seem to have managed to sign up some big names to its service. The list includes MySpace, Tagworld, Pageflakes, Yahoo! and Google.

Naturally, for a social network, Saki will be encouraging its members to upload their content including videos and photos.

Other future plans include introducing versions for the Play Station Portable and Ultra Mobile PC by Q1 2008.

DSI is obviously trying to get the big brands to sign up to its service. It offers a way for mobile users to create their own portal with access to all their favourite applications and content in one place.

The blurb says you can look at it with any browser. But when you click on browser support it informs you that you need Internet Explorer 5.0 or above.

Shouldn't they have launched the WAP version first because, frankly, it's extremely restricted right now. µ

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