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Don’t have an iPhone, Windows Mobile Device or Blackberry? Want push mail, instant messaging and more? No sweat, Morange’s latest version, Morange V does all this and much more now!

I’ve been using Morange ever since version 2. They had version 3 since some time, and just today I stumbled upon Morange V. The feature list is incredible and this little J2ME application can turn ANY mobile phone (on which it can run) into a very smartphone! The push mail feature is specially a true winner and tops all other features it offers. Infact, Push Mail, IM, and Web Browser are the only old features transferred from Morange 3, all others are new. They also have the option of Facebook and Yahoo Messenger in the mobile application ( although Facebook isn’t listed in the feature list) although I wasn’t able to get Facebook to work.

The focus of this application has changed significantly since Morange 3 and it has been redesigned around a social network. It has photo sharing like Facebook where anyone can comment on the pictures, a news feed like Facebook as well, and a Saying feature like Twitter ( which hopefully wont go down! ). I’m very excited with the features of this application.

The mobile application and the website work well together. As soon as I uploaded the my profile picture, the picture on the mobile application was updated which was really nice. The application has nice animations and eye candy which really please the user. The home page has a dock, which can be customised and new features can be added easily from there which are developed by the Morange team so the hassle of updating can be avoided.

Check out the great feature list from their website:

Mobile Social Networking

Add your Facebook account in Morange V and all your friend alerts and updates will be pushed to you r Morange Home Screen on the phone without opening the web browser.

Mobile Photo Sharing

Take a photo from your mobile phone and instantly upload it to Morange V community, as thousands of people are waiting to see what you are up to. You can also access latest photos, comment and “dig” those you are interested in.

Mobile Sayings

Broadcast your opinions to the world from your phone with Morange V’s “Sayings” service. Whenever you post a new “saying”, it will be automatically pushed to all your networks. You can also use it to trace what your friends are doing.

Push Email

Push Email in Morange V Software supports not only any POP3/IMAP servers from your enterprise mail system, it even pushes from your free Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail accounts!

Instant Messaging

Login to all your IM accounts in Morange V and chat with your friends at the same time while on the move. Morange V supports MSN, GTalk, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, and AIM.

Web Browser

Experience the real Web in Morange V with our Transcoding Service and Unlimited Tabbed Browsing technology. The unbound reading pleasure makes your phone the perfect mobile reading device.

Global Weather

Morange V gives you fast and easy access to the weather information of more than 50,000 cities around the world, including five-day weather forecast.

And More…

Morange V is an exciting global mobile community. Once you get the Morange V Software installed on your phone, you can experience all the pleasure inside this community. New features like Mobile Stock Alert, Sports News, etc, will be automatically updated to your mobile little by little. Get ready to be surprised!

The only problem I have with this application so far is the absence of the really useful and great “Push RSS� feature which used to automatically update the feeds like Push Mail in Morange 3 and earlier. I hope they introduce that feature soon though.

Overall, it’s a highly recommended software for people who like to stay connected on the go. Highly productive, and very useful.