Live Status from my Nokia phone just does what it says: update your Facebook status using the Mobile Web Server app (reviewed here {link}). There are several apps and services that can take advantage of the Mobile Web Server (MWS) running on your S60 3rd Edition phone, providing a secure two-way link between your phone and your friends.

Where the original MWS portal looks basic and clunky, Live Status takes the hassle out of updating your Facebook status and allows your friends to send you free messages and request cameraphone pics. There’s no new software to install on your phone – instead you just add the Live Status application to your Facebook account.

This prompts you for your MWS web address and password, then walks you through the set-up.
The app appears as a box on your profile page, with a single line giving your phone’s status – although you can set it to also automatically update your main Facebook status.

There’s an ‘Am I available?’ link which, when clicked by a visitor, checks whether you’re on a call or whether you have an active calendar entry. Below that, there’s a link to request a camera photo (that appears on their page) and a box to send (free) instant messages to your handset. GPS phones can be set up to share their location automatically, too.
However, getting these features to work isn’t easy.

The ‘Am I available?’ link persistently invented calendar entries that weren’t on my phone, and setting up permissions for people to request images or send text messages is both convoluted and annoying. Basically, you have to set up users within MWS that mirror their Facebook log-ins. With limitations on user name length, I couldn’t get this to work.

The other thing to remember is that if you leave the Mobile Web Server running – perhaps to automatically update your location and calendar – you’ll want an unlimited data tariff to avoid running up some steep bills.
A good idea then, and worth persevering with for Facebook junkies, but just too complex and unreliable for the average social networker.

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Price: Free
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