Mobile Content Bits: mSpot Launches Consumer Site; Voice On Kindle; iPhone Heart-Rate Monitor

mSpot launches consumer site: Palo Alto, Calif.-based mSpot has launched a consumer-facing web site, mSpot.com, after focusing on offering its mobile entertainment services through carriers. The site will allows users to edit, purchase, and download ringtones to mobile phones. The service is currently available to Sprint (NYSE: S) and AT&T (NYSE: T) subscribers and will launch soon for other carriers. The songs cost $2.99 each. Release.

Voice from Nuance on the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle 2: Nuance Communications said its text-to-speech technology is being used by the “read to me feature” on the Kindle 2. The technology will play the audio for any content downloaded to the device — books, newspapers, magazines, blogs or your own documents.

The iPhone as a heart-rate monitor: The iPhone is being used as a heart-rate monitor and fitness tracking system with the addition of a “monitoring module” being built by iTMP Technology, Reuters reports. It works by using a SM Heart Link, which wirelessly collects data from sensors — such as heart rate chest straps and cycling sensors on bikes — and sends it to the iPhone for display and tracking and up to a Web site for health assessments. The iPhone apps are free, but the module costs $155.

iPhone is the leading mobile web device: This is yet another report reiterating that if there’s one thing iPhone users like to do, it’s surf the web. Net Applications found that among operating systems, the iPhone commands nearly two-thirds, or 67 percent, of mobile browsing worldwide in February, reports ArsTechnica. The rest of the list includes: Java ME, which represents a lot of feature phones, at 9 percent; Windows Mobile at 6.91 percent; and Symbian and Android tied at 6.15 percent. The remaining 2.75 percent is listed as other. Compared to January, iPhone did drop some with others, like Android, Symbian and “others” showing gains.

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