Archive | January, 2010

GV Mobile To Re-Appear In The App Store

“Good news everyone! Several years ago I tried to log on to AOL, and it just went through! Wheee! We’re online!” ―Farnsworth Okay not really, but it must feel this way to Sean Kovacs, the developer of the iPhone app GV Mobile, a pretty slick Google Voice interface for the iPhone. If you happened to [...]

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iPhone OS 4.0 To Include Backgrounding?

theboygeniusreport is reporting some rumours from a “trusty Apple connect” about iPhone OS version 4.0. According to the source the following features may appear in the upcoming version of the OS: There will be multi-touch gestures OS-wide. (Would make sense for that as the rumored OS for the iTablet is close if not the same [...]

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Wind Responds: Data Ports Fixed

Earlier today, Wind Mobile acknowledged via a twitter update and corresponding blog post response that they were aware of customer complaints that the “unlimited data” option for Wind phones was unlimited in the amount of data transferred, but not in the type of data transferred. Certain data ports were blocked, drastically limiting the applications which [...]

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Google Voice – Gizmo5 Transition Complete?

As noted in the comments of the How-to: Google Voice in Canada post, and further explored in the Google Voice Charging For Calls To Canada post, calls to Canada through google voice seem to now cost $0.02 per minute instead of being free. Astute reader @ianmurchison noticed something interesting: It has been known for a [...]

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Wind Responds Re: Port Blocking

UPDATE: Issue fixed. For the past few days, a number of angry Wind Mobile customers have been complaining on the Wind website about how the unlimited data plan is restricted via port blocking. In a display of customer feedback response uncharacteristic of the Canadian wireless industry, Wind Mobile has responded in a timely fashion with [...]

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Google Voice Charging For Calls In Canada

For some time now, google voice has allowed free calls to Canada in addition to free calling within the US. It seems however that this is not working correctly, at least for calls originating in Canada.

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GV Mobile / MaRussia as a Google Voice Replacement

Sean Kovacs, the developer of the previously-on-the-app-store GV Mobile, has been hard at work lately on a new project. After developing GV Mobile, an app for the iPhone which allows near seamless integration and access to google voice, Sean became one of the growing number of developers to become intimately familiar with Apple’s less than [...]

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Wind Mobile Working On Nexus One

@windmobile twitter account: via @WIND_Chris Lots of interest in #NexusOne: Works on AWS, we’re chatting with them, confirming config works with WIND, more to come… A few days ago I wrote how the Google Nexus One may be coming to Wind Mobile and now it seems we have some confirmation from Wind themselves that they [...]

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Nexus One Announced – Not in Canada

Nexus One tech specs: Cellular & Wireless UMTS Band 1/4/8 (2100/AWS/900) HSDPA 7.2Mbps HSUPA 2Mbps GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz) Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n) Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR A2DP stereo Bluetooth

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Google Nexus One – Coming to Wind?

Engadget has an exclusive hands-on preview of the new Google Nexus One phone up on their site. It’s definitely worth a read, with quite a few pictures and even a quick intro video to the phone in the initial article. They do promise a full review up soon. The most interesting part of the review [...]

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