New version of Orkut for Symbian Phones

Orkut won a new version for devices running Symbian Series 60. The upgrade follows the pattern already adopted by PicasaWeb for Mobile and has an interface more organized and almost all the resources of the Desktop version.

Among the novelties of the new version, you can view full albums and upload pictures directly from the unit. Moreover, some pages rely on visual effects that leave the interface much more friendly and pleasant.

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Photo Album of Orkut for Mobile




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Get New Orkut Scrap Alerts, Friend Info And More As ORKUT SMS On Your Mobile Device

Now you can receive alerts about new orkut scraps, New friendship requests and a lot more on your mobile device. No need to have a PC, a mobile handset can help you doing your regular practices on a go.

Recently Orkut launched a new feature and they call it Orkut Mobile. What makes it more interesting is that you need not to have a GPRS enabled handset to use this feature. Just a simple SMS will manage the job. You can check your scraps, get new scrap notifications, view friend's details including their e-mail Ids, send new scraps and a lots more features yet to be added by Orkut.

How to do the Orkut Mobile settings in order to get SMS alerts on mobile phone :

• Go to My Settings --> Mobile page.
• Orkut will show you the list of mobile carriers (Mobile Service Providers) from your country. Don't get shocked, you have already added your country in your profile.
• Now choose your mobile carrier (Mobile Operator).
• Then type your mobile no in the My Mobile Number field. That number will be used by Orkut to send you SMS (Short Service Messages) texts.
• After providing the number, Orkut will ask you to verify the number you just entered by sending a text message to Orkut from that number. Follow the instructions and send the message.
• After getting confirmation, Orkut will associate that mobile number with your profile and will add that number in it's database.
• In future you will get any friendship request or new scrap alerts on that mobile number. Simultaneously you can send scraps to your friends using that mobile number.
  
• All the scraps sent from your mobile number will be posted in your friend's scrapbook under your Orkut profile. Isn't that cool now?
• But remember one thing, this service is not free. Your Mobile service Provider may charge you for receiving and sending text messages.
  

NOTE : All of us know that our mobile operators charge us for sending SMS texts from our mobile, but why should we get charged for any incoming SMS messages that Orkut will send us? Note that Orkut Mobile is a premium service. Currently it's not working with all the mobile service providers. It has been associated with the leading ones only. And the incoming messages that will cost you, will be divided by Orkut and your SMS carrier. So, Orkut is planning to pocket some money by introducing this Orkut mobile feature.

Currently this service is available in Brazil and India. Because more than 50% of Orkut users belong to these two countries. After getting successful experience from these countries, Orkut will expand this feature for the worldwide users.

Check the screenshot of Orkut Mobile page below :


Orkut Mobile : How much would this cost me?

• If you belong to India, you can use this Orkut Mobile feature only with these mobile operators : BPL, MTNL, Aircel, Reliance, Spice and TATA. Other networks are not currently supported.
• For sending text messages, you will be charged Rs.2 per SMS from these operators, except MTNL, which will charge you RS.1 per message.
• Getting notifications from Orkut will be free until you reach your monthly quota. After that limit, you will get charged for incoming messages also.
• In Brazil, Orkut users with the following operators can enjoy this service : Amazonia Celular, Brasil Telecom, Claro, Oi, Temelig celular/Vivo, TIM, Vivo.

SMS Commands you have to use for Orkut Mobile :

• on or off - Turns ON or OFF SMS alerts
  
• reset - Resets your monthly quota limit. Let me explain how it works... suppose you have a limit of getting 50 free alerts on your mobile phone. And if you just reached that limit by 10th of that month, you won't get any new alerts in that month. But if you want to keep that SMS notification activated, you can send a text message, by typing the word reset, and Orkut will add some extra quote to your account for that month. Keep this in mind that the extra quota will be chargeable and that will cost you Rs.2 per incoming message if you are in India.
• unregister - Gets yourself unregistered from Orkut Mobile service and you won't get any future notifications from Orkut.
• scrap - In the field, type your Orkut friend's name and your message in the field, then send the SMS. Orkut will automatically post that scrap in your friend's scrapbook under your profile name.
• contact > - This will enable you to view the contact information (phone number, email, IM, and address) of an orkut friend.

This is a cool feature indeed. This is also pretty easy to use. If you are still having any problems, just write to me in the comment section. I will be glad to assist you.

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Now get Orkut Scraps, Gmail Via Sms on your mobile for Free

• Now It is very simple way to get your orkut scraps / Gmail mails on yours mobile phones via SMS.
• No need of GPRS or WAP or Internet connection on your Mobile phones.
• No need of a Hi-FI OR Any Expensive Mobile phone.
• Just a simple cell phone needed which can receive SMS. No hidden charges involved. It is totally FREE.

This is a very cool hack which will enable you to receive your scraps on your mobiles via SMS. This hack may be very helpful for those who are on a vacation and cannot log in to their account gain and again to check their scraps/emails. What’s the best part? You get all the updates on your mobile and you don’t spend a single penny except that one time Initial registration fee (merely RS. 1) .

This is a simple trick (Hack) come to alive by the services provided by

• Blogger.com (Blog publishing platform by Google).
• Orkutfeeds.com (Converts orkut scraps and community messages into web feeds).
• Mytoday.com (Free SMS delivery client website foe Indian mobile users).

How to Get Orkut Scraps via Sms ?

• To get Scraps as SMS , first we have to Covert our scrap into web feeds. To do this we need help of the website OrkutFeeds.com .
• Replace the value after uid%3D with your orkut userID ( what is userID ? Login to your orkut account and click on your profile itself. You will get your orkut id on the address bar. Like http://www.orkut.co.in/Profile.aspx?uid=15934819123053616540 in my case. So 15934819123053616540 is my unique userID )
• You have to register for an account in mytoday.com To register, sms REG yourCityName to 09845398453
• You will Receive your password immediately,Now Go to mytoday.com and Log in with your mobile number and password.
• To get scraps as SMS >> Go to Feed Management Page >> Go to “Add Feed” >> In the “name” field put “scraps” and in the “URL” field put
• http://www.orkutfeeds.com/feed.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.orkut.com%2FScrapbook.aspx%3Fuid%3DYOURUID

Limitations:

• Scraps/emails sent to you via sms are 5-6 hours late.
• The word limit is 71. So you wont get to read the full scrap/email if it exceeds 71 words.
• This Hack wont work if your scrapbook is locked or Blog set as private.
• This whole trick/process is for Indian cell users only.
• If You are using email services which don’t provide ( hotmail/live mail, zapak, rediff, indiatimes ) mail forwarding options ; you can’t read them in your mobile.
• The emails that you are auto forwarding to blogger.com must be less than 10 MB in size.

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Orkut Now On Mobile m.orkut.com !

Thanks Orkut. Now we all can access Orkut from our cell phones using GPRS. This was possible after launch of Low Bandwidth Version Of Orkut. Now accessing orkut on your mobile is pretty simple. All you need is to log on to www.m.orkut.com from your mobile (provided you have internet access 'GPRS' on your mobile) . This mobile version is really neat and clean, still you can’t access all functions of Orkut on it. This is what we call Orkut on mobile.





Things you can do are:

• Read and send your Scrapbook
• View friends’ profile
• Accept friendship Requests
• can do Search
• More features will be added shortly.

so hurry up

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