ShoZu Announces New Custom Edition Client For BlackBerry Smartphones Available On BlackBerry App World

ShoZu has released a new custom edition client for BlackBerry through the BlackBerry App World.

“It’s now easier than ever to communicate with your favourite online communities, blogs and social networks from a number of BlackBerry smartphones,” said ShoZu Chairman and CEO Chris Wade. “Whether you’re uploading photos, blogging or using other social media features to keep up with your online social life, ShoZu brings together all the information you are sending and receiving from different sites and allows you to manage it and respond broadly from one application.”

Features:

• Your social media hub
  Stay connected with your friends and family – ShoZu supports over 50 destinations including email
• Update your status
  Tell your friends what you’re up to when you’re on the go easily and quickly
• Download & view the latest from your friends
  Keep up with your friends ever changing statuses and check out their latest photos
• Add tags, titles and descriptions
  Add the details before or after you upload
• Photo blogging
  Update your blog with photos and videos

ShoZu is currently available for the BlackBerry Pearl 8100 series, Curve 8300 series, Curve 8900, Bold 9000, with support for the Storm series and the Tour 9630 coming soon.

You can download a trial that will allow you to upload up to five photos or videos and use social networking features limitlessly. If you’d like to upload more than five photos or videos you can purchase the full version for $4.99.

Full press release after the jump.

Press Release

LONDON (August 11, 2009) – ShoZu Ltd., the award-winning social media hub, is poised to enhance social networking on BlackBerry® smartphones with the introduction of a new, highly integrated client, available on BlackBerry App World™.

The new ShoZu client takes the ShoZu service on BlackBerry smartphones to a higher level of functionality – beyond just uploading to multiple social networking sites simultaneously. It provides two-way interactivity with a variety of social networking sites mobile users want to interact with on a daily basis through one easy to use interface.

“It’s now easier than ever to communicate with your favourite online communities, blogs and social networks from a number of BlackBerry smartphones,” said ShoZu Chairman and CEO Chris Wade. “Whether you’re uploading photos, blogging or using other social media features to keep up with your online social life, ShoZu brings together all the information you are sending and receiving from different sites and allows you to manage it and respond broadly from one application.”

The new mobile client provides two-way interactivity with a host of social networking sites on BlackBerry smartphones, including the ability to receive updates from multiple sites to one integrated spot directly on the handset, read and reply to comments in real-time, update status, upload images and video, add tags, titles and descriptions before or after uploading, and much more. The mobile client also offers the ability to edit, add, and remove destination sites to/from a user’s account, making it even easier to stay connected.

The ShoZu client is available for free on a trial basis on BlackBerry App World (www.blackberry.com/appworld) and allows users to upload up to five photos or videos and use social networking features such as status updates for an indefinite amount of time. A full version of the client, available for $4.99, offers users unlimited use of photo and video uploads.

The service is initially available on all BlackBerry® Curve™, and BlackBerry® Pearl™ series smartphones, as well as the BlackBerry® Bold™ with support for the BlackBerry® Tour™ and BlackBerry® Storm™ smartphones coming soon. A complete, frequently updated, list of supported handset models is available at www.shozu.com and m.shozu.com.

The ShoZu mobile client is part of the ShoZu social media hub service. The ShoZu social media hub service will remain free for both existing and new users through the recent introduction of new ways to access the ShoZu service, including through picture messaging/(MMS), mobile e-mail, desktop e-mail and ShoZu Desktop, based on the Adobe Air platform, that works on both Macs and Windows PCs.

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