Vodafone just announced Vodafone 360. “A Suite of Innovative, New Internet Services for Mobile and PC.” According to the press release, 360 covers a lot of services. So what is it?

• An address book that integrates with social networks.
• A collection of applications, games, music and maps for mobile phones, PC and Mac.
• A phone backup service for contacts and other phone content.
• An app store with around 1,000 applications.

The address book and phone backup service is a result of the acquisition of Zyb by Vodafone.

Samsung is offering two Vodafone tailored phones that are said to offer the best 360 experience. The phone support is not limited to these two Samsung phones; in total 100 different handsets are supported.

The 2009 launch in Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the UK will be followed by launches in a number of other countries in 2010, including India, Turkey, South Africa, New Zealand, Romania and France.

For us the most interesting part of course is the app store. There are however very little details enclosed. This is all Vodafone is announcing so far:

a catalogue of over one thousand Apps at launch available to different handsets, downloadable through the Vodafone Shop

Like reported earlier, we have many questions regarding this store. We hope more details will be available soon, and will keep you posted.

Vincent Hoogsteder

Tags: vodafone 360, vodafone app store

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