The beez world of phones (News, Tips, Information)
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Google announces “Voice Actions” and “Chrome to Phone”
Aug 13th
Google has just announced 2 new cool applications for your Android 2.2 phones (yes, only Android 2.2) – Voice Actions and Chrome to Phone.
Voice Actions is an extended version of your current voice commands for Android and it comes with a lot more commands, including voice to email and SMS. The commands are listed below:
- send text to [contact] [message]
- listen to [artist/song/album]
- call [business]
- call [contact]
- send email to [contact] [message]
- go to [website]
- note to self [note]
- navigate to [location/business name]
- directions to [location/business name]
- map of [location]
Chrome to Phone is not exactly new. However, it is made official now by Google. Basically you can install the program in your Android phone, add the extension to your Chrome browser (or Firefox), then you can push a number of things to your phone from the browser. You can:
- Send browser links from Chrome to your phone.
- Google Maps links launch the Google Maps application on Android.
- YouTube links launch the YouTube application on Android.
- Selecting a phone number will automatically launch the dialer with the number populated.
- Selecting text on a Web page will copy the clipboard to Android (long press a text box to paste on Android).
The video of the official Voice Actions is after the break. Enjoy!
[via google mobile blog]
We don’t need Facetime, Fring can do video calls over 3G
Jul 9th
Fring has just updated their iPhone program to take advantage of the front facing camera of iPhone. And what’s more, it can do video call over 3G.
And since Fring is available across multiple platforms, you can even have video calls to Android and Symbian phones.
Office Mobile 2010 released, free upgrade for Office Mobile 6.5 users
May 13th
After the beta release last year, Microsoft has just released the official Office Mobile 2010, and it is a free upgrade for existing Office Mobile 6.5 users. It is now downloaded from Windows Marketplace.
In conjunction with the retail release of the full desktop version of Office 2010, Office Mobile 2010 bringing comprehensive Word, Excel, and PowerPoint editing capabilities to the pocket — on Windows Mobile 6.5.
The new version has SharePoint integration for grabbing documents from the office, a nifty Bluetooth controller mode for PowerPoint presentations, and so on…
Keen to try? Download it from the Marketplace now.
Opere Mini gets its way to Apple App Store
Apr 14th
Has Apple relaxed its App Store policy for not approving apps that duplicate the functionality of iPhone?
The famous Opera Mini browser has just got approved for the App Store. This browser uses server from Opera to render web pages and thus achieve a superior speed for loading of web pages. For a long time Apple has been rejecting this browser to the App Store. And it is to many people’s surprise, it finally makes its way to App Store.
Has Apple changed its policy? Or somebody accidentally approved the app? 
Download yours for your iPhone, it is available now.
[via engadget]
Quake 3 ported to Android 2.0
Feb 25th
Are you a big fan of the old Quake 3 game? If you are and you own a Android 2.0 device, here is a piece of good news for you. Quake 3 has been ported and run successfully on Motorola DROID.
At the moment, the port is optimized to run on a device with keyboard like DROID. However, since it is open source and in future we may see it optimized for other device without keyboard like Nexus One. The game is reported to run at a speed of 20 – 30 fps now and will be even slower when the map is huge and detailed. I think the port will be optimized and run faster along the way.
If you are interested to run the game on your device, you can find more information from the project page here.
[via tweaker]
Google Earth has come to Android
Feb 23rd
After several delays, the Google has finally come to Android devices. It is now available in the market. However, it is for Nexus One only but will be available for most of the Android 2.1 devices later.
It is a huge application. The download takes about 5Mb and it will be blown up to about 22Mb after install. There are a number of layers available for Google Earth, including Places, Businesses, Panoramio, Wikipedia, Roads, Borders and Labels, and Terrain.
If you want this beautiful app that has been available on you desktop to be on your phone, download it from market or scan the QR code here.
