AT&T has launched an app for social butterflies who want to be in multiple places at one time. AT&T Social Net, a free mobile social networking application that combines access to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and customizable news feeds within a single application. The apps works on many of the popular AT&T feature/texting/web phones such as LG (Vu, Neon, Shine, etc), Motorola RAZR and Samsung (Jack, Propel, Eternity, Impression.)
Through a single carousel menu, users can view and manage their social communities, communicate and track events in real time, and get live news feeds from over 35 leading news, sports, and entertainment sites. Once a user populates the application with his or her information, users can see and respond to tweets, status updates, wall posts, profile comments, photo activity and friends' news feeds across their communities. Users can also access new or unread articles from their customized content feeds.
Users can even be notified that they have updates on their social networking accounts when the AT&T Social Net application is closed. When certain actions like comments from a friend, new wall posts or photo updates occur, users will receive a pop-up notification with an option to launch the application and check their updates. Users who wish to disable this notification feature can do so in the application's settings menu.
Customers can download AT&T Social Net at no cost in the AT&T MEdia Mall, accessible directly from handsets and online at www.att.com/mediamall. Standard data and messaging rates apply during use of the application, and an unlimited data plan is strongly recommended. For more information on AT&T's data and messaging plans, go to www.att.com.
"Five of the top 10 searches on our mobile Web portal are for social networking sites, a clear indication of the growing popularity of mobile social networking," said Mark Collins, vice president of voice and data products, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. "With this app, we're satisfying the increasing demand for aggregation apps that make it easy for customers to be active in multiple communities simultaneously."
AT&T Social Net is currently available on the following handsets:
LG CU515
LG Neon (GT365)
LG Shine (CU720)
LG VU (CU915)
LG VU (CU920)
LG Xenon (GR500)
Motorola Karma (QA1)
Motorola RAZR V3xx
Motorola RAZR V3xxr
Motorola RAZR V3xxrj
Nokia E71x
Pantech Matrix (C740)
Samsung A737
Samsung A777
Samsung Eternity (A867)
Samsung Impression (A877)
Samsung Jack (i637)
Samsung Propel (A767)
Samsung Propel Pro (i627)
Sony Ericsson C905
Sony Ericsson w580