The new portal, called LinkTone , is designed specifically for the wireless medium. It allows both mobile phone and PC users to send and receive email, check news headlines, receive updated information on finance, sports, and local entertainment, check traffic conditions, consult business directories, browse hotel and restaurant guides, use online dictionaries, scan airline and bus schedules and access a wide range of other localized information.
Localized information is already available for major cities around China.
In the future, LinkTone also hopes to be able to provide the infrastructure for online stock trading. It's now more a question of security and regulatory concerns. The system will be formally launched nationwide on May 17. The company will also offer WAP home pages to all mobile phone users who sign up for the company's services. Intrinsic was founded in 1999 by Wu Jun, who had previously worked for Sendit, a Stockholm-based wireless data pioneer later acquired by Microsoft and renamed the Microsoft Mobile Wireless Division.