Anyone who has ever used computers is aware of Hewlett-Packward, they have a great reputation in computing devices like printers, computers etc. Even players like HP can’t resist themselves from joining the social networking bandwagon and are soon launching a mobile application named FriendLee.
HP”s Friendlee is designed keeping friendship hungry teens in mind. It enables user to connect with friends in a better way by using loads of features.
Following is a glimpse of features supported by Friendlee:
- Status updates about the friends.
- Local time at the user location.
- Updates like whether their phone is on/off/silent.
- Friends current locations similar to Google Latitude.
- It also consist of an recommendation engine that enables users to give recommendation on business and people to various friends.
A demo of the same was presented at Wireless Enterprise Symposium on a blackberry and was appreciated for its features and usability.Friendlee will be made available on Windows Mobile and Google Android, thus supporting all major smart phones.
Will it be able to make its mark:
- Various applications like this for eg Xobni has already been launched for desktop but were not able to survive.
- It also put users privacy at risk which may be a cause of concern.
Anyways its time that will tell whether Friendlee will be able to make its mark or not but one thing is for sure even giants like HP want to cash on the social networking boom and mobile is the next medium where social networking will go mass.
