Rogers Set to Launch Embedded Social View App Along With 3 New Plans
Are you a Social Addict? How about a Socialite? If you are (not that we know what those are, per se), then you may want to head up to Canada (if you’re not already there), and check out the new plans that Rogers is apparently cooking up. Along with a new, embedded Rogers-based application called Social View, it seems that the Canadian wireless carrier is jumping on the whole social network bandwagon. And they’re doing it in a big way.
Go big or go home is apparently Roger’s new mantra. The wireless carrier is set to launch Social View, which is a built-in Rogers application that’s meant to aggregate the content from all of your favorite social networking sites. Well, maybe not all of them, but the biggest ones at least. Pulling feeds from Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace, along with the most recent content from text messages, phone calls, and Instant Messages from your contacts, is all done in real-time, and brought to your attention right on your homescreen.
It’s a built-in application, but there’s no word on which handsets it will be on. Our bet is Android-based handsets, even if HTC’s already implemented the same feature, called FriendStream. Either way, it’s Roger’s own thing, so we’re sure they’ll be happy to implement it on any device they want. In addition to the app, Rogers will introduce three new plans to go along with it: “Unlimited Social Addict Plan,” “Unlimited Socialite Plan,” and finally the “Unlimited Social Master Plan.” There’s no telling what differentiates any of the plans, but hopefully we’ll get a clearer picture here soon.
[via Mobile Syrup]