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AOL, like other Web portals and content providers, has offered a number of services and applications for the mobile set over the years; sometimes successfully, sometimes not so much. At the CTIA Wireless show in San Francisco, AOL today introduced a collection of services that comprise its latest assault on mobile handset market.

For feature phones there's a new AOL.com WAP portal that automatically detects the phone you’re using to optimize the Web experience, according to AOL. The portal also serves up new mobile versions of AOL Search and AOL Mail, in addition to MapQuest and Moviefone, and expanded content in the areas of shopping, music, news and entertainment.

AOL is also launching Winamp Remote, an application to allow users to access their video and music libraries from their cell phones. It also includes a feature to let users share music and video streams with each other. To use Winamp Remote, install the Winamp media player on your computer and then log onto Winamp in the AOL.com entertainment channel on your WAP-enabled phone.

While AIM has been on the mobile handset for quite a while now, AOL is now expanding the reach of AIM through a new SMS short code edition of the instant messaging client. The point is to allow users to take AIM with them even if they don’t have Mobile AIM installed on their cell phone. Simply text ‘AIMAIM’ (246246) to try it out.

There's also a new WHERE mobile widget called AIM Buddy Finder. It allows users to set and share their whereabouts with their AIM buddies from a GPS-enabled smartphone. Users can see the location on a MapQuest map of friends who’ve chosen to share their locations.

For Windows Mobile smartphones, AOL's got a new on-device application called MyMobile, which is due for release by the end of 2007. The downloadable software offers versions of some of the same AOL services (such as AOL Mail, MapQuest and Moviefone) that are available through the new WAP portal. They're more sophisticated because they are running on a smartphone and not through the Internet to a standard cell phone, however. MyMobile is supposed to be able learn and remember user favorites and recent requests.