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Google Voice – Why I made the switch to Google Voice?
Jun 29th
I recently heard that Google Voice had expanded to open enrollment and figured I’d check it out to see if it would be useful for me. Initially, I didn’t see why I would need it, my existing phone setup was pretty simple and I did not see why I needed to make any changes. (Existing setup=Work Office, Cell, Home Office). After watching a couple of the Google Voice YouTube videos, I figured that having a single phone number to reach me would be an improvement over what I currently have.
The main inefficiency in my existing system was when I worked from my Home Office, I asked my team to call my Home Office #. In actuality, they usually call my cell phone, which is fine, I would just rather talk on the Home Office speaker phone or headset.
So, be moving to Google Voice, I now have only 2 numbers for people to reach me (Work Office, Google Voice (aka cell/home office)). This basically combined my ‘not in the office’ phone numbers and when someone calls the GV number, it rings me at both my Home Office and on my cell.
With GV, I also consolidated my Home Office and Cell voicemail systems into 1 voice inbox, which transcribes the VMail into text and emails this to me. No more Visual Voicemail on my iPhone, but the transcription and not having to listen to Vmails anymore is much more efficient for me.
Now, my big hurdle is moving my Work Office number to GV. Not sure how well that will go from the Corporate aspect.
If you haven’t checked out Google Voice, I urge you to watch some of the videos, and think about making the move. While the advantages may be minor for you, in the end they will make you more productive and efficient.
[android-developers] Digest for android-developers@googlegroups.com – 25 Messages in 25 Topics
May 20th
Free SvSIP-VOIP-WIFI Call @ Nintendo-DS Console
May 11th
We know that we can make free worldwide Skype to Skype VOIP call using Sony PSP gaming handheld console,
But how to make free VOIP call using Nintendo DS (Nintendo too is a Japanese gaming handheld console company with its US office in Redmond), is this possible?
Yes this is possible, while Googling the net we found some useful tips which would be shared with all,
SvSIP / PJSIP: a piece of software which has the power to convert the Nintendo-DS into a phone instrument, SvSIP uses the SIP protocol technology which is used as the signalling protocol for VoIP,
Nintendo DS with a SIP provider, permits to make the voice phone call to anybody using the Nintendo DS in WIFI zones,
You may also learn to know that SvSIP allows to make a call to number with figures, SvSIP also permits to receive the calls, and it permits to question IVR by using DTMF tones etc,
SvSIP / PJSIP uses the Nintendo DS functionalities to make a WIFI-VOIP voice call using its built-in microphone, sound and WiFi,
It may look a bit complicated to a non techie but after a little study and patience anybody can make a FREE VOIP call using his Nintendo DS game console…
Must Read:
http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/2007/09/nintendo-ds-goes-voip-with-svsip-and.html#ixzz0nd657ROg
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-phone-calls-with-your-Nintendo-DS/step1/Install-SvSIP/
http://www.nintendo.com/ds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS_accessories
http://voiptelephonyservice.blogspot.com/2007/01/nintendo-ds-hacks-for-free-wifi-voip.html
VOIP calls using Nintendo DSi
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=157948
SvSIP, DS and DSi
Related YouTube Videos:
Turn your DS into a Phone!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJMliDSKDGY&feature=player_embedded
Watch TV on your Nintendo DS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgQjzjkgl9w&feature=related
HTC Droid Incredible
Apr 30th
The best of the Droids on Verizon, the Droid Incredible ($200 with a two-year contract from Verizon) impresses with its speedy user interface, gorgeous AMOLED display and fun Sense user interface. Other than some minor design qualms, this smartphone truly lives up to its name.
Design-wise, the Incredible appears fairly similar to Google’s Nexus One, but it is essentially a CDMA version of the HTC Desire, which launched last February in Barcelona, Spain. The phones use Android, Google’s open-source operating system.
The Droid Incredible has an 8-megapixel camera (as opposed to the Nexus One and Desire’s 5-megapixel shooters). The Droid Incredible also has a strange rubberdized “topographic” battery cover, which I could have done without. While the Incredible is lighter, it doesn’t feel as solid as the Nexus One.
While the Nexus One has four touch keys, the Droid Incredible has four physical hardware keys running along the bottom (Home, Menu, Back, Search). I actually prefer the Nexus One’s touch keys, though, as it gives the phone a more streamlined look.
Another difference from the Nexus One is that the Droid Incredible has an optical mouse as opposed to a trackball. Like Research In Motion’s BlackBerrys, HTC seems to be making a shift from trackball to optical (both the HTC Desire and Legend sport an optical mouse).
The Droid Incredible runs Android 2.1 with the revamped Sense interface, which offers some useful new functions for easy navigation. For more information about Android 2.1’s features, check out our review of the Google Nexus One.
My favorite new Sense UI feature is Leap, which essentially is an elegant way of handling multitasking (a bit reminiscent of Palm’s webOS deck of cards visualization).
Pinch anywhere on the homescreen, and you’ll jump to seven thumbnail versions of your open pages. From there, you can go to any of those open applications or close out of one. Thanks to the Droid Incredible’s speedy 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, this feature works extremely well, too.
Friend Stream, HTC’s social network aggregator, allows you to view your friends’ status updates, shared links, and pictures all in one seamless view. Supported social networks include Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and others.
I find these social network feeds a bit annoying (do I really need to see everybody’s Tweets and Facebook status updates all mixed up together?), but I suppose if you’re an avid social networker seeing all of these updates in one place is useful.
One feature I found especially cool: You can tap and drag to highlight a block of text and either look up a word in a dictionary or translate it via Google Translate.
Along with the standard Android applications, like as Gmail, Google Talk, and YouTube, you also get HTC’s Twitter app, Peep, and its photo geotagging app, Footprints. And, of course, you have easy access to Verizon’s apps, like V Cast Media Manager, through the Android Market’s dedicated Verizon channel.
Impressive 8-megapixel camera
While 5-megapixel cameras seems to be the standard for high-end smartphones for right now, expect to see a lot more 8-megapixel camera phones in the near feature.
Overall, I was impressed with the Droid Incredible’s. You press the haptic mouse to snap pictures, which works okay, but I found myself wishing there was a dedicated camera key on the phone’s spine. The phone just didn’t feel as steady in my hands and sometimes my pictures looked a bit blurry.
Otherwise, I was very impressed with my outdoor shots. Colors appeared bright and natural, details looked sharp. There was also very little shutter lag. My indoor shots looked good as well, though a few had a bit of yellowish tint.
The flash also seemed a bit unpredictable as to when it decided to go off, as well. Many of my indoor shots were pretty well lit so when the flash went off, details and colors were blown out. Nighttime snapshots looked good, however-better than most smartphone cameras with flashes.
The Droid Incredible can shoot high resolution video up to 800-by-480, but you can’t shoot 720p quality video. The camcorder is fine for quick clips, but I was disappointed by the slight pixelation in my videos.
Multimedia: Just ok
I do wish that HTC would have updated the Sense media player. It is slightly prettier than the dull-as-dirt Android player, but I prefer iTunes or Palm’s webOS player. Audio playback sounded good, though and the player supports a respectable range of audio and video formats.
Video playback over YouTube was as good as YouTube can be. I downloaded a few movie trailers, however, and was impressed the smooth playback, sharp details and clean colors. The Droid Incredible also supports Flash Lite, but I had trouble playing Flash content. I also encountered this problem with the HTC Hero on Sprint.
The HTC Droid Incredible might be the best Android phone available — it certainly is the best on Verizon. But how will it compare with the incoming iPhone 4G with its alleged front-facing camera and higher resolution display?
Smartphone shoppers will have some enticing choices this summer, that’s for sure.
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One Motorola Nexus vs Droid – Dogfight, Pt 1
Apr 11th
The two best Android phones on the planet? Maybe. HTC Google vs. Motorola Droid Nexus One in a dogfight, hosted by Noah. All about Android: forums.phonedog.com Win Free Phones: www.phonedog.com More Videos: www.phonedog.com
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Nexus One Pricing and Rates Leaked Google Phone Will Cost $530 Unlocked, $80 Monthly T-Mobile Rate
Apr 8th
A tipster (presumably within Google) leaked web design documents that
show off the upcoming storefront for the Nexus One (aka – The
Google Phone). Google will b
e asking a steep $530 for the unlocked phone, or $130 for a two-year
T-Mobile contract. T-Mobile will be offering only one rate plan with the
phone, unlimited voice, web and texting for $80.
According to the leak, Google will not selling the phone at cost, as
they’ll be taking a profit on the $530 handset. Some had speculated that
Google would sell the Nexus One at cost (or even a loss) to create the
‘ideal Android phone’ and help spread Android’s popularity. This was not
true.
T-Mobile will not let current customers transfer their plans over to the
Nexus One. If you are a T-Mobile customer and you want to keep your
current plan, you’ll have to switch over to the Nexus One plan, or buy
the unlocked phone. For those of you outside the US, the fine print on
the website makes reference to shipping outside the US , so you may be
able to get your hands on an unlocked Nexus One.
Some strange rules – Google will only let you attach up to five
phones to a single Google/Gmail account. Granted, a single person would
never need six or more phones, but having a hard limit on it is strange.
Also, if you cancel your T-Mobile Nexus One plan, you either can return
the phone, or pay the difference between the subsidy and the unlocked
price – an bizarre move, for sure.
Google has got a press conference scheduled for January 5th, and the
internet leak claims that phone will go on sale that same day. Props to
Gizmodo for the image of the leaked website.
Looking for the official Nexus One features specifications as well as
a series of videos showing the Nexus One in action? See Google Nexus One
Specifications Features Now Official Nexus One Videos Full Low Down
” A True iPhone Beater .
Android-Based TV Coming Soon
Apr 6th
from Android Tapp by Antonio Wells
Android-Based TV Coming Soon: ”
Scandinavia Window to the World is the world’s first Google Android-based television set originating from Sweden with availability in September of this year. Available sizes are 42″, 47″, and 55″. We’ve already seen interesting ways Android has hit the tube, but this TV is the start of a revolution!
It features full Internet for surfing the Web, get social with Facebook & Twitter, stream YouTube in High Definition, search Google Maps, check email, and comes with wireless keyboard and mouse with pointer. The best feature is the ability to access the Android Market and download Android Apps. This will amount for a whole new level of apps developers will create and innovate.
Photos of Scandinavia Window to the World
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First look at Android 2.1 on the Motorola Droid – Videos
Apr 1st
Sony X10 V.S iPhone 3G: simple reviews and comparison
Apr 1st
After countless fans waiting for a long time, Sony Ericsson finally introduced its first android smartphone – Sony Xperia X10. It is said that the Xperia X10 is perhaps the most promising of Sony Ericsson’s confusing crop of modern smartphones, combining attractive hardware with killer specs, Android, and an intriguing custom skin. Does it hold its own against modern competitors like iPhone which most people like? And more importantly, can it keep Sony Ericsson from going over the brink? Read on to find out.
Design
The XPERIA X10 measures 119*63*13 mm and weight 135 gm and capable of displaying movies and photos in 262k colors on its high 854*480 resolution 4-inch screen.
While iPhone measures 115.5*62.1*12.3 mm and weight 135gm in16 million colors on 480*320 pixel resolution and 3.5-inch screen.
Conclusion: There is not much difference between the form factor of the two smartphones except for the fact that Xperia X10 is slightly, but unnoticeably, bigger.
OS
Xperia X10 runs on Google Android 1.6 OS while iPhone runs on the proprietary iPhone OS 3.1x.
Connectivity and wireless
Both the phones are quadband and GSM-based. Both the phones boast of 3G, WiFi, EDGE, GPRS and Bluetooth (with A2DP) and both lack infrared port.
Browser
Both have ability to optimize web pages to fit the screen and zooming in and out of web pages is a breeze. Both are also slick in checking for or doing stuff. However, unlike Xperia X10 has a Webkit web browser, iPhone comes with Safari browser which doesn’t support Flash.
Storage and Memory:
Xperia X10 has 1GB onboard flash memory and microSD card slot (capable of holding up to 16GB, Xperia X10 also ships with 8GB miroSD card). On the other hand, iPhone comes with 256MB onboard flash memory and a choice of 16GB or 32GB internal storage.
Camera and video recording:
Xperia X10 boasts of a whopping 8-megapixel camera with up to 16x digital zoom, image and video stabiliser, auto-focus, touch to focus, face and smile detection, geo-tagging, LED flash and WVGA video recording (@30fps).
On the other hand, iPhone has a 3.15-megapixel camera with auto-focus, tap to focus, VGA video recording (@30fps) and geo-tagging.
Music and Video Player:
Both the smartphones support multiple audio and video playback formats. The Experia X10’s audio player offers a great number of options for filtering content and accessing additional information (via the Infinity button), but lacks equalizer. And it only supports MP3 and AAC formats. While its’ video player recognizes MPEG4 videos coded in H.264 only and does not support DivX and Xvid, which is a shame really, since the huge screen is extremely suitable for watching videos. Another, iPhone supports audio formats: AAC, MP3, WAV and video formats: MP4, H.264 and MPEG-4. Both don’t support all of video formats. If you have avi files, what should you do? I search this question on Google and find good auxiliary software which named Nidesoft Video Converter which could convert video or audio files between all popular formats to convert AVI file to MPEG-4 format. Detailed process is as follows:
Firstly, you could free download and install Nidesoft Video Converter from: http://www.nidesoft.com/downloads/video-converter.exe.
When you finished the download process, run the .exe file to install it.
Step 1: Click “Add File” button to import your videos from your computer.
Tips: Click a file in the list and you could use the preview control buttons to play the file.
Step 2: Click “Format” combo box to select the output format, such as to mp4 for Sony or iPhone.
Step 3: Click “Convert” button to start conversion. The conversion will be completed in a short time.
Ok, now you have converted your AVI files to MPEG-4 format files which Experia X10 and iPhone supports and you may use it more convenient. Another I also find Nidesoft DVD Ripper could rip DVD to multimedia phones’ video and music: 3GP, AVI, WMV, MP4, WMA etc. So, it is not a problem to watch your favorite DVD on mobile phone. I think these two Nidesoft software are necessary additional software for mobile phone users.
Power and Battery:
Xperia X10 is equipped with a Li-Po 1500mAh battery that should be able to provide 8 hours of continuous talk time and keep the handset operational for 425 hours in stand-by on 3G networks. While iPhone has a built-in Li-Ion battery that ups to 10hours for talk time and 6 hours on Internet use.
Others:
Xperia X10 and iPhone have some common features such as accelerometer, Push email, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, GPS, SMS, MMS, 3.5mm audio jack, Digital Compass, Google Maps and 3D games.
With Xperia X10, you have access to Android Market and PlayNow arena from where you can download apps, movies, video podcasts, TV shows, music tracks, games etc. It also promises an intuitive UI by introducing signature social media applications like Mediascape and Timescape and also has web feeds, speakerphone, gesture control, flight mode, world clock, and pre-installed useful apps.
On the other hand, iPhone has many cool features including a landscape keyboard for all core apps; an innovative and useful implementation of cut, copy, and paste; push notifications, an improved call log that shows details like the time and length of a call; a spotlight search for searching apps, e-mail, music, and more. It also offers a very useful service called MobileMe, a feature that allows you to remotely track the location of the phone when it goes missing, backup data, wipe data from a lost or stolen phone and restore it in a new one.
Conclusion:
As you can clearly see from the comparison chart above, it really drills down to what the end-user wants from his or her phone. If you want a phone with high quality camera, then Xperia X10 is the answer since it boasts of 8.1 megapixels autofocus camera. On the other hand, one clear advantage that iPhone has over Xperia X10 is its huge number of apps offering, which is a big attraction for most users. But when it comes to sheer hardware power, Xperia X10 comes out as a clear winner. So it really comes down to what you want from your phone and which platform are you more comfortable with.