So far, we have received a tremendous amount of positive feedback from users with a regular feature phone. Hundreds of users have sent us spontaneous ‘Thank you’ notes and messages, such as ‘you make me feel like I own a smart phone’. So Squace has significantly improved their mobile internet experience.
We have also been demonstrating the Squace concept to many business users with smart phone devices such as iPhone and Blackberry. Some of them said that they could not wait to have Squace on their phone, some just wanted to find out more and a few were sceptical.

We are now happy to announce that we are ready to release Squace on iPhone and Blackberry to a wider audience. This underlines our objectives of being the best Universal Mobile Interface solution globally and providing content and service providers a unique opportunity to interact with their target audience based on their behaviour rather than their device type. With our 360º distribution engine we also make it easy for B2B, B2C and D2C business’s to go mobile leveraging their existing internet services.
The Squace UMI design is now tuned to different types of handsets. A touch screen device asks for different type of interactions than a non-touch screen device. Until now we have been testing with a closed community who gave us invaluable feedback. For example, we have now introduced the Toggle function between a Grid view (excellent in remote control devices) and the list view (often better on a touch screen device).

Today we have submitted the our iPhone and Blackberry versions to Apple and Blackberry World. If you would like to be notified once the Applications are available in the Appstores just sign up as a regular user and you’ll get notified.

In the meantime you can install the iPhone App on your device via an intermediate procedure. Become a Squace iPhone Beta tester:

We look forward to continue receiving your feedback and suggestions; learning from new users ensures that Squace is as good as it can be!.
Each device platform provides us with key learning’s and user interaction improvements so that these new design or interaction functions can be incorporated into the new device types and platforms of the future. One good example of this are the lesson’s we learned in testing the Squace Android client that are now incorporated into the new iPhone version. Check them out!
Read more about Android version
Read more about Squace Blackberry version
Read more about Squace IPhone version

Visit the sites below by clicking on the pictures. Read more at  the Squace plugin download page

Example on blog post (www.daysinsweden.com) with the Squace WP. Visit the blog by clicking on the picture – add a bookmark by clicking at the “Get this post”-icon. Read more at the Squace plugin download page)

http://www.daysinsweden.com

Visit the sites below by clicking on the pictures – add a bookmark by clicking at the “Get this post”-icon.

http://sinergiapro.you5.net/wordpress-mu/

Swedish sites:

http://www.restillzanzibar.se/
http://www.maxmsailing.se
http://devmindset.com
http;//www.recepten.se

Visit the sites below by clicking on the pictures – add a bookmark by clicking at the “Get this post”-icon.

And of course our own blogs:

http://labs.squace.com
http://blog.squace.com

Squace Labs article on our plugin

Downloadpage for WP-plugin

Try it out and give us your feedback on this way of bridging PC and mobile with easy bookmark tools for instant mobile access.

Squace is on the Internet Venture map, the position is Universal Mobile Interface and the way forward is to supply other internet vendors with a simple and free toolbox to make there Internet services easy to use in the mobile.

What can you expect from the next release of Squace?

The key challenges the teamed was facing:
- Make it possible to access, store and share whatever link (URL)
- Reduce the size of the product to enhance speed and handset coverage
- Create easy tools and API:s for content providers to build mobile services and applications
- And – turn excellent usability into a user experience beyond expectations.

The truth is that the design specification covers lot’s of wall-space in our office and includes stuff yet to come. Quite clearly – the team was, and still is, setting up high standards for what Squace shall accomplish. Great work everyone, let’s have a release party and then gear up.

So, even before the releases, parties and all the fun work to come – let’s have a quick lock at Squace (yes, the live version will be provided shortly).

The foundation of the user interface is as before, links organized in a pattern of squares. If you are a not yet a believer (strange?) the square provides a superior oversight, reduces the number of clicks and, this is important, creates a look-, feel- and work-alike in most handsets. In fact we have yet another high level target – to cover more than 1500 different devices including every new Internet capable handset and, almost without native clients. In the new version we have mad sure that there is just one click to your bookmarks, or contacts, or your messages or your favorite services. But usability and functionality is not enough – there has to be a hart and feeling as well, tiny things, small details that take the square out of the square and makes the experience nice and natural. So, we have cut out all the squares – just pictures until you move the tool-tip – to provide a first impression that really makes a impact – great for brands.

Other important experience improvements is site icons presented with the name of the bookmark, extended actions i.e. that the user can change name, tag and make bookmarks private or public, menu to easy access all the basic views and pop ups (that disappears on tool-tip movement) for messages, API notifications and system messages (they will happen – we are server based).

The usability key is to reduce URL-tapping – and to achieve that we need some serious tapping, naming and tagging of any type of URL. Every bookmark saved in Squace is possible for other users to find with less tapping. The best example, and this is why easy sharing is fundamental in the UMI, when one user go through the struggle of tapping in a URL (less struggle if you do this on the computer) and then share that with your friends. Or why not a set of links (named Collections in Squace). It’s much like your friend is sending you I-tunes collections because you always complains  of lack of good music. Some produce new stuff, others mix and share stuff together and most people are laid back consumers. Yahoo had some funny name on this pheromone.

At the bottom you have the dashboard with your favorite Internet services such as Facebook, Twitter and Gmail. Easy to find, easy to log on to and, this is the real benefit, easy to integrate with a content providers API. Create your own application, let people “download” you wrapped application from your site and you will not only have a premium space in the dashboard, you can also interact with the user – notifications will be collected in the pop up message bar. Read more about Squace free and featured business proposals under Publisher in the upcoming new website and learn how to create a mobile version of your in just a hour.

Let’s finish this session with some lyrics by another great artist. If you read the lyrics you understand why this song will be the lead theme at our upcoming party – Coldplay, you are invited to do Square One all night May 14.

Listen to Square One on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/5DSPvCmOtmlKBGQwpsQvNd

you’re in control
is there anywhere you wanna go
you’re in control
is there anything you wanna know
the future’s for discovering
the space in which we travel in

from the top of the first page
to the end of the last page
from the start in your own way
you just want
somebody listening to what you say
it doesn’t matter who you are

under the surface trying to break through
decifering the codes in you
I need …?
I’m on the top, I can’t get back
whoa whoa whoah
whoa whoa whoah

the first line in the first page
to the end of the last page
you where …?
from the start in your own way
you just want
somebody listening to what you say
it doesn’t matter who you are
it doesn’t matter who you are

you just want
somebody listening to what you say
oh, you just want
somebody listening to what you say
it doesn’t matter who you are
it doesn’t matter who you are

is there anybody out there who
is lost and hurt and lonely too
they’re bleeding all the colors into one
and a few come undone
as if you’ve been run through
some catapult who fired you
you wonder if your chance will ever come
or if you’re stuck in square one

The objective, and challenge, of this design contest is to provide an appropriate professional design for the themes (background pictures) that balances the technical and creative aspects of our application.

We are looking for themes consisting of nine background pictures as described in the technical description here

The evidence from Squace Beta trials is conclusive; the service is unique and much appreciated by users from all over the world. The way Squace makes Internet available on regular mobile phones is praised by experts and users alike. But all of us in the Squace factory work very hard to improve all aspects of the service: the user interface itself, service speed, messaging and contact book functionalities etc. We would very much like to know what improvements and new functions are most important to you.

Make your voice heard!

Click here to enter a brief Squace questionnaire.

Swedish start up rockets from 0 to more than 250,000 downloads; adds access to 35 new U.S.
sites; now works on more than 600 mobile phone handsets.

Squace, www.squace.com, creator of the free application that makes surfing, searching and sharing Internet content possible on ordinary mobile phones without typing, today announced more than 2,000 copies of its free phone software are now being downloaded daily and that more than 250,000 people around the world have started using Squace since its introduction in the United States two months ago.

The Swedish start-up also used Mobilize 08, GigaOm’s next-generation one-day mobile conference, to announce the addition of 35 new U.S. Websites to the Squace family, as well as support for more than 600 popular mobile phone handsets.

Read more here.

Download pdf.

Rebtel is a new way to make international calls* from your mobile phone at super low rates.
Rebtel gives you local numbers where you live that connect you to your international contacts. Instead of crazy per-minute charges or rip-off calling cards, you just pay your mobile phone operator for a local call, and pay Rebtel a tiny fee on top of this for the international part of the call.
This means that a Rebtel call is like any other international call – but much, much cheaper!
Get the “Rebtel” site in Squace, click here

*You can currently join Rebtel if you live in any of this countries

To make a call and sign up for Rebtel do following:

1. Open the Rebtel site and click “Sign up to Rebtel” (or log in with your Rebtel PIN code, if you have an account already).

2. Fill in the registration form; Name, E-mail and choose a PIN code.

3. Now you can see all your Rebtel contacts, add new ones and call them via Squace.

So just add the international numbers of your friends, dial the local number and talk, paying much less for these calls.

Start calling now, Try 10 minutes for FREE

“Rebtel is unique in that it allows users to call India from the U.S. for the price of a local call between friends in the U.S. for just 5 cents a minute.” – India Journal, (May 30, 2008)

“… there are a handful of services available that allow you to make cheap and sometimes even free international mobile-to-mobile phone calls. Rebtel is one of those services, and trust me, you’ll be glad you found it.” – Yahoo! TECH, (October 31, 2007)

Since the number of Squace users is growing really fast now, it is the right moment to have a closer look into the speed of the system and afterwards to improve its performance. Therefore, we have focused our engineering team on the performance, which would be our new goal for next few months. We are continuously working to decrease loading time and increase user experience. We want to make Squace work faster, faster and faster.

We have started working towards new short term strategy for few weeks now, and we already have got very positive results. In the last few weeks we have speeded up our web page. It works much faster now, check it out yourself!

However, there is no time for break in the Squace team. Now we have to face even more challenging task, which is to make Squace work faster in the phones. This project is under deep development for the moment, but in the soon future our users will be able to experience faster mobile browser – Squace.

Discover new content
Lot’s of new and exciting content is added to Squace every day. The first square in the last row of the grid in the mobile phone is called Discover content. Go there to find stuff that you like! You can also title search by clicking the magnifying glass or tag search.

Something for everyone
Squace gives you tons of useful and fun information: blogs, recipes, news, sports, gossip, jobs, weather, and much more. In addition to our international content there is lot’s of locally adapted content for users in e.g. India, Iran, Spain, Sweden, Russia, UK, and USA.

Share a square.
Squace team

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