“Mobby.Me users can expect innovative features where they can do much more than just communicating and receiving updates from friends on their mobile. Mobby.Me is changing the way people communicate,”
Serving as a personal mobile homepage, Mobby.Me offers users who successfully registered as a member a personal mobile URL that serves as their global address. With limited accessibility to certain function key on mobile phone, a unique and shorter mobile URL gives users easy accessibility and identification. Users can easily sign in to their profile page and easily locate a friend’s profile page on Mobby.Me too.
New and unique to Mobby.Me is also the customized avatar image that members can personally build from the wide range of costume designs that are available. Users can mix and match the choice of hairstyle, color of eyes, mouth and wardrobe of the Avatar to represent who they are. The attraction of avatar application is the ability for users to add a fun and creative alter personality of themselves for other members to see. Mobby.Me is currently the first to bring the Avatar application on to mobile social networking.
“With Mobby.Me we are constantly coming up with new ideas in social networking to bring new possibilities for mobile phone users,” said Mr Chung.
Another interesting feature in Mobby.Me is the ‘I’m a Model’ application. Through its affiliation with Model.com, Mobby.Me serves as a channel for its members to register and submit their photos to become a model. Selected candidates will have a special layout in their profile of their potential model shots and a featured video that is stream for viewing on the landing page. This is a chance for users to increase their exposure and increase their chance to be discovered as a potential model.
Mobby.Me is free for users to experience with only minimal charges for premium services. Mobby coin is the official currency used by users to shop or download items such as ringtones, music and games in Mobby Shop. Members can either top up the coins through their mobile credit or earn the coins through successful invitation to Mobby.Me. In addition, users are also rewarded with coins for daily log-in and for using the various Mobby.Me services such as online games.
Launched barely one year ago, Mobby.Me currently has approximately 1000 registered users. It is currently available in English language but the Chinese version of Mobby.Me will be available soon.
“With the rising popularity of the online social networking sites and the growth of mobile phones applications, Mobby.Me is expected to create a new wave of followers for the mobile users,” added Mr Chung.
