Be Practical: HandsFree

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In need of those handsfree bluetooth earpieces so you can make or answer phone calls even while driving? Cannot afford those expensive bluetooth handsfree headsets?

Well, you could always be practical. Check out this simple hands free kit. Being cheap things doesn’t mean you cannot afford expensive gadgets, its just being practical.

April 21st, 2007 Posted by Glenn in Article, Tools at 3:15 pm Comment Now! »

Future Bluetooth Headset Design

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As I was browsing some latest techonologies on cellphones, I found this article in Gizmodo featuring a design for bluetooth headset that may actually be implemented in the future. Every gadget seems to be getting smaller and smaller and as portable as it may be. The only problem is what design could give the best fit to all kinds of ears.

This Pillete concept Bluetooth headset is tiny. So tiny that it barely pokes out of your ear, making you look even crazier when you walk down the street and seem to be talking to yourself. While it doesn’t exist quite yet, it’s a look at where headset design will be headed.

April 18th, 2007 Posted by Glenn in Article, Tools at 4:01 pm Comment Now! »

Twttr: Social Networking via Cellphone

I thought I’ve seen it all when it comes to social networking, from ugly profile layouts to malware-laden profile pages. Never mind that MySpace is apparently the most popular web app today (number one in terms of sending traffic to Google), and that probably no other site can surpass it in terms of user-base (and notriety). Here’s yet another social networking web app, and this time, it’s trying to penetrate a mobile userbase.

Twttr, from the makers of Odeo, is more of an experiment rather than a full-fledged Web App (or so Jayvee over at Cellphone9 thinks so).

twttr is a text messaging service based on the idea that everyone and everything has a status. Your status right now is “reading about twttr”. twttr keeps you connected to your friends by subscribing to their status. twttr works best from your cell phone when you are out and about in the world, but you can follow along on the web too.
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To use twttr, dial the short code 40404, after registering your status is set by simply sending a message to the short code. Your friends can choose to follow your updates live (they will get a message when you change status) or only when they want to know what you’re up to. Users can choose to follow all their friends live or pick and choose. There is a list of keywords used to control the service app entirely through SMS.

I think it’s the telcos who would be happiest if something like this flies–more people would be using SMS, and would consequently earn them better revenues. Either that or young people with too much time on their hands would start snapping up unlimited SMS plans en masse.

[via Cellphone9]

July 20th, 2006 Posted by J. Angelo Racoma in Tools at 10:27 pm Comment Now! »

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