The gang over at MobileIndustryReview has put together quite the Christmas present idea – a charity raffle. It’s really a brilliant way to get toys into your hands, while helping others at the same time, and I’m a huge fan (to be honest, I wish I’d thought of it!) Basically, to enter, you only need [...]
If you’ve been reading Symbian-Guru for long, you should be no stranger to Spinvox. They offer a handful of speech-to-text services, including blogging, personal notes, social network status updates, and, obviously, voicemail. Their transcription is tough to beat, and believe me, my friends try. However, today I wanted to let you know about another similar [...]
We here at Symbian-Guru like to help you find new and helpful ways to use your S60-powered smartphone, as I’m sure you’ve noticed. Typically, that ends up either being an application or a website of some sort, but what about just plain phone calls? Can those be used to help technology enrich and enable your [...]
Welcome to your Friday Fun video. First, though, I’d like to apologize for the absence of Driving with the Guru this week. I’ve been traveling, and when I got home yesterday, my laptop refused to boot up, which means I have no video editing tools available. Never fear, I’m off to get a new laptop [...]
I try to steer clear of the typical Silicon Valley blogs. Why? Because they very seldom talk about anything that has a global impact. That being said, a recent post from Michael Arrington, Editor of TechCrunch, has gotten quite a bit of attention lately. The post basically states that voicemail is dead, but doesn’t really [...]
I’ve had my Spinvox voicemail setup for a few weeks now, and am still completely enjoying it. It has already legitimately helped me this past weekend, when I was at a wedding and was unable to answer my phone, and wasn’t interested, specially because a call came in from an unknown number. I was able [...]
A slight precursor for this post, I should let you know that I’ve not had voicemail setup on my personal cellphone for several months. I *hate* voicemail. It’s such a terrible ‘service’. Someone calls me, and I don’t pickup. First, I’ve got a record of their call in my cellphone’s call log. I don’t turn [...]
I woke up this morning to an IM from my pal James Whatley telling me I was in the Financial Times! Yeah, that’s right. The Financial Times UK published this piece on my use of Spinvox at the Nokia World event back in December. Spinvox is a speech-to-text service that allows you to get text [...]
As you might have seen in the Press Release, this past week I conducted an experiment with Spinvox, along with Truphone and Jaiku, around liveblogging. For the Nokia World 2007 conference in Amsterdam, I setup a Nokia N81 8GB with Truphone, a SIP/MOIP client that uses WiFi or 3G to place mobile VOIP (MOIP) calls [...]
