Vodafone 360 touts new services, handsets and UI

European telecom giant Vodafone announced the launch of Vodafone 360, a new web services suite that replaces its Vodafone Live effort. According to Vodafone, users' address books are central to the 360 effort, connecting all of a subscriber's mobile contacts, messaging services and status updates from services including Facebook, Windows Live Messenger and Google Talk. In addition, Vodafone 360 integrates contacts with music, photos and mapping services, enabling users to share their favorite songs and their physical location with their friends. Vodafone notes that the service is automatically backed up and synchronized between the mobile device and PC or Mac--all contacts updates, emails, photos and conversation history or settings changes made at home or on-the-go are saved, assuring that all content is kept up-to-date.

While Vodafone 360 operates across a range of mobile handsets, Vodafone is introducing two tailor-made 360 devices developed by Samsung. The Vodafone 360 H1 features a 3.5-inch multitouch, high definition OLED screen, 16GB memory, WiFi and a 5 megapixel camera. The 360 H1 also boasts a proprietary touchscreen user interface developed by Vodafone and based on the LiMo operating system. A second Samsung handset is slated to follow, and Vodafone 360 will also arrive pre-loaded on four Nokia Symbian smartphones.

For more on Vodafone 360:
- read this release and check out this FierceWireless: Europe article

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