{"id":30204,"date":"2011-07-27T13:58:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T11:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=30204"},"modified":"2011-07-27T17:48:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T15:48:22","slug":"vodafone-555-blue-with-facebook-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/30204-vodafone-555-blue-with-facebook-integration.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone 555 Blue with Facebook integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/313865-Vodafone-UK\">Vodafone<\/a> 555 blue is the latest prepay handset from the company, and comes standard with Facebook features built in to the device<\/p>\n<p>The handset was developed in collaboration with Facebook, and places an emphasis on \u2018popular social networking functions\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the device include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Facebook support is ready right out of the box.<\/li>\n<li>Facebook messages appear in the handset\u2019s inbox alongside texts and email.<\/li>\n<li>The Vodafone 555 Blue\u2019s 2 megapixel camera can post photos to Facebook with a single click.<\/li>\n<li>Facebook profiles are automatically synchronised in the Vodafone 555 Blue\u2019s address book.<\/li>\n<li>Facebook features are automatically updated in the background.<\/li>\n<li>The 555 Blue sports a fully customisable Facebook \u2018F\u2019 button.<\/li>\n<li>The 555blue features a 2.4\u201d touch screen and full Qwerty keypad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vodafone\u2019s Group Terminals Director <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/309221-Patrick-Chomet\">Patrick Chomet<\/a> said: \u201cThe mobile internet plays a central role in the daily lives of more than 87 million Vodafone customers, many of whom are avid Facebook users. The Vodafone 555 Blue is a unique and innovative handset, designed and developed by Vodafone to offer a simple but powerful Facebook experience for people in both emerging markets and developed economies who want to stay in touch with their friends, wherever they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the press release below:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>VODAFONE LAUNCHES WORLD\u2019S FIRST PREPAY PHONE WITH FACEBOOK BUILT-IN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Vodafone today announced the world\u2019s first designated prepay phone specifically designed to put the Facebook experience into the heart of the handset, allowing people to easily share and connect with their friends when they\u2019re on the move.<\/p>\n<p>The Vodafone 555 Blue, developed in collaboration with Facebook, puts popular social networking functions \u2013 from status updates to sharing a photo \u2013 into the hands of millions of people in an attractive, intuitive and competitively priced mobile phone<\/p>\n<p><strong>Powering the new era of mobile social networking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every aspect of the Vodafone 555 Blue design reflects people\u2019s desire to stay up-to-date and communicate with their friends anytime, anywhere.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ready to go, straight out of the box<\/strong>: Facebook is built into the handset\u2019s core \u2013 it\u2019s running the moment the customer turns on the mobile phone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Truly integrated messaging<\/strong>: Facebook messages appear in the handset\u2019s inbox alongside texts and email.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Simple photo-sharing<\/strong>: photos taken using the Vodafone 555 Blue\u2019s 2 megapixel camera can be shared with friends with a single click.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Easy to stay in contact<\/strong>: friends\u2019 Facebook profiles are automatically synchronised in the Vodafone 555 Blue\u2019s address book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Always available<\/strong>: the Vodafone 555 Blue updates regularly in the background, flagging new items on the homescreen and quickly loading them when opened.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>One-click control<\/strong>: the customisable Facebook \u2018F\u2019 button can be assigned to one of a number of tasks, including instantly posting a status update with photos from the gallery or with links from the browser.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Attractive form-factor<\/strong>: touch navigation, 2.4\u201d landscape display and QWERTY keypad are ideal for typing chat, email and status updates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vodafone\u2019s Group Terminals Director Patrick Chomet said: \u201cThe mobile internet plays a central role in the daily lives of more than 87 million Vodafone customers, many of whom are avid Facebook users. The Vodafone 555 Blue is a unique and innovative handset, designed and developed by Vodafone to offer a simple but powerful Facebook experience for people in both emerging markets and developed economies who want to stay in touch with their friends, wherever they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook wants to make every phone social and Vodafone has taken the integration of Facebook to the next stage for an affordable mobile device with the Vodafone 555 Blue,\u201d said Henri Moissinac, Head of Mobile Business, Facebook . \u201cWe\u2019re really happy that Vodafone will distribute this phone globally and we hope to do much more with them to bring the mobile, social internet to people everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Vodafone 555 Blue includes the Opera Mini 5 web browser for fast internet browsing and, of course, it\u2019s also a great phone.<\/p>\n<p>Available soon across most Vodafone businesses around the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone has announced its latest handset, the Vodafone 555 blue with built in Facebook features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,15],"tags":[36,161,3058,1789,3056],"class_list":["post-30204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-patrick-chomet","tag-vodafone","tag-vodafone-555-blue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30208,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30204\/revisions\/30208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}