Mobile News: Lypp to cheaper long distant on Blackberry, EQO supports more mobile phone, Palm Canada supports Mobifest

Things in the mobile world in Canada are heating up:

• A new start-up, Lypp announced earlier this week announced their first service offering for Canadian Blackberry users and will help consumers save on their long distance costs. According to Co-Founder and CEO, Erik Lagerway, “While other countries are seeing their telecommunications costs falling, Canadian wireless carriers continue to charge exorbitant rates for long distance, as high as $0.30 per minute.”  EQO also announced their service offering is now available on more mobile devices, including the Nokia 5310, 5610, 6555, 7500 Prism, 7900 Prism, E51, and Sony Ericsson K770.
• EQO’s service helps provide lower costs for International calls, text messages and instant messages with services such as MSN, AIM, Yahoo!, Google Talk, ICQ, and Jabber. EQO also announced today the company is offing free text and IM services to consumers in India, India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Russia. “We developed EQO to make it easier and cheaper for people to chat using their mobile phone,” said EQO Chief Executive Officer Bill Tam.”
• Palm Canada is taking a big role in this year’s 2nd Annual Mobifest which is the largest worldwide festival of films made for mobile, and will take place on November 20, 2007 at the Isabel Bader Theatre. Mobifest gives an opportunity to aspiring film makers to to showcase their excellence and innovation for using the mobile platform or “made for mobile” film genre. Vice President, Americas International, Palm, who is a big of the concept of consumers being “always on“, adds “On-the-go Canadians are consumers of wireless entertainment, grabbing bite-sized pieces throughout their work day and into their play time, we thoroughly enjoy our involvement with Mobifest and the opportunity to connect film enthusiasts with the intuitive features of the Treo smartphone experience.”

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