An application that turns your iPhone into a piano! I have not seen this in real life but when Gabe from God’s Mac showed me this video my first thought was “is this real!”. How very cool. Apparently Gizmodo thinks this is real. They also have a link for PocketGuitar which turns your iPhone into a guitar. It may be time for me to jailbreak my iPhone if cool apps like this are out there. Apple, where is that SDK?
I have fallen in love with a service from a website called jott.com. With jott.com I use my (cell) phone to send myself or others emails. I pick up the phone and dial a central number and leave a voice message for someone in my jott.com address book. To leave myself a message I simply say “myself”. Then an email with a message transcription and an attached audio file is sent to that email address. The voice recognition works surprisingly well. When I dictated part of Richard the 3rd as a test I got this phrase:
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York
The only word it got wrong was using “sun” for “son”. Not bad.
What I like about this service is that as someone who is middle aged who is always thinking about 10 things at a time I just have to pull out my cell phone and leave myself a message to get the idea out of my head and into my email. As a email addicted person with a cell phone, a laptop Jott.com helps tie my life together. Cool.
Gizmodo has a great idea on a spec ad for a rumored cell phone from Apple, the iTalk. This is the kind of product that would produce the response “I want one!”.
Gizmdo has an article about the Samsung M800 cell phone with WiMAX.
We’ve discussed the Samsung M8000 before as the first phone poised to use the WiBro (Wireless Broadband) network. But to our delight, it looks like Samsung has brought the phone to CES and is actually demonstrating this futuristic service (that Korea will have by the first half of the year) to us here in the USA. WiBro is based on the mobile WiMAX technology (IEEE 802.16e TDD OFDMA standard), that will be able to deliver voice, data and video at speeds of up to 120 km per hour. The M8000 has a QWERTY keypad and Samsung is showing off WiBro services including broadcasting, home networking, video conferencing, video on demand, mobile navigations, and push-to-talk. Now, when exactly do we get it here? Huh??
Uhhhh, hows that again? Perhaps they meant to say something in terms of bps instead of kph, because I am guessing that the speed of transmission since this is radio is closer to the speed of light and completely meaningless.