Category: Mobile Applications

Dec 09 2008

Hide & Protect Your Calls & SMS With Call&SMS Guard For S60

This is Call & SMS guard for S60 that hide&Protect your private information(sms,call&file) + Call&Sms Filter + Personalized incoming call rejections + Record phone call conversations + Keyboard autolock + File security

Compatible Devices: Nokia N81 8GB, Nokia N91, Nokia E62, Nokia N82, Nokia N92, Nokia N78, Nokia E70, Nokia E65, Nokia N73, Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia N71, Nokia N76, Nokia N91 8GB , Nokia E60, Nokia N77, Nokia N96, Nokia E50, Nokia N81, Nokia N75, Nokia E51, Nokia N80, Nokia N93i, Nokia E61, Nokia E61i, Nokia N95 8GB US, Nokia N93

Features In Detail:

1?Phone call management

* Reject all incoming calls. In this mode, all of the incoming call will be automatically rejected. It can be used in the time when a user does not want to be disturbed (for example, when a user is driving a car or having a meeting)
* Accept only recognized call. In this mode, all of the unknown calls will be rejected; those recognized calls (names are already stored in the phonebook/contacts) will be not affected.
* Reject calls from blacklist?In this mode, all of the calls from the predefined blacklist will be automatically rejected, whereas the rest of the calls will not have any effect. An end user can make use of “Manage Lists” function to create the needed blacklist. This can be used in the situation when a user does not want to be harassed from some people.
* Accept call from whitelist. In contrast to the previous one, in this mode, mobile only accept calls from the predefined whitelist. All of the other calls from non-whitelist will be automatically rejected. An end user may use “Manage Lists” function to create the needed whitelist.
* Personalized call rejection. In this mode?an end user may define personalized call rejections for each of the members in the “Specific List”. A user may select “Reject call” or “Reply by SMS” to reject calls. A user may use “Manage Lists” to create his/her “Specific list”.

2?SMS protection and management

* “PCG” can help to manage the SMS messages in the mobile phone to make the needed messages visible or invisible in the “Inbox/Sent” of the Nokia “Messaging” application. In this case, a user can hide the sensitive information even your phone is lost, or the user does not want to share the information with others.
* An end user may create his/her “Baby list” using “PCG”. Once the “Baby list” has been set up, in the next start-up of “PCG”, it will automatically scan all of the existing short messages. If a message is to from the “Baby list”, then messages will be automatically hidden. In addition, it can also automatically hide the short messages from “Baby list” if it is running. This will eventually protect the user’s privacy since others cannot view the SMS without supplying a correct password. A user can set his/her password in “Active mode”. When an SMS from “Baby list” comes in the mobile phone icon on the top-left corner of the screen will keep blinking until the user has entered the “Manage SMS” / “Call Records” area using “PCG”.

3?Phone call log management

* All of the phone call records from “Baby list” will be automatically hidden. A user can ONLY view the phone call record by inputting a correct password.
* When a call from one of the member in the “Baby list” comes in, if it is not answered, then a small “mobile phone icon” will keep blinking until the user enters either “Manage SMS” or “Call Records” area with a correct password provided.

4?Phone call recording
Whenever a call has been establish (in whichever user interface), if a user wants to record the caller’s voice (for example, please tell me your phone number or your home address, then I can record it down), the user just simply needs to simultaneously press “ABC” key(on which has a pen icon) and “+” key, “PCG”will automatically invoke the “Recorder” application in S60 to record the telephony voice. As such, t the caller’s voice and the user’s voice will be recorded simultaneously. A user may the functions from the recorder to “Stop”, “Pause” or “Continue” to record the voice. Note?For those S60 phones, which has the “QWERTY” keyboard layout?a user needs to use “CTRL+A” key combination to activate the telephony voice call recording. Currently, Nokia S60 E61 has the keyboard layout.

5?Automatic call rejection
When this function is used, all of the incoming calls will be automatically rejected. If the caller uses a mobile phone to make the call,then the caller may receive a customized SMS message. This is especially useful when a user does not want to be disturbed; however,he/she still wants the caller to get some information about the callee. A user may choose an SMS template like “I am driving call”or “I am having a meeting now, please do not disturb me”as a reply.

6?Automatic removal of the SMS message from the blacklist
A user may define his/her own “SMS Blacklist”. In this case, all of the SMS from the blacklist will be automatically removed when the SMS message come in. This function is very useful when a user does not want to receive those harass SMS messages or advertisement SMS messages.

7?Keyboard autolock
A user may define a time interval for “Autolock time interval”?When keyboard is not used within the time, then “Call Manager” will help to lock the keyboard automatically.

8?Quick key lock function
Except the time when a call is established, no matter whichever user interface a user is currently in, the user may simultaneously press “ABC” key(on which there is a pen)and “+” key to activate the quick key lock function. The benefit of this function is that a user does not to switch to the “Idle screen” in order the lock the keyboard. Another benefit of this function is that it can help us to quickly lock whichever screen.Note?1) For some of the S60 phones, when this quick key lock function is activated, after key lock is deactivated in the active idle screen, a user may not see the left/right soft keys in the screen. If this happens, a user may press any of the numeric keys in the phone to recover this situation, or a user may choose to use the S60 standard way (”left soft key” + “+” key) to activate the key lock function since this ONLY happens in the active idle screen 2) For those S60 phones, which have the “QWERTY” keyboard layout, a user must use “CTRL+A” key combination to activate the telephony voice recording?Currently, Nokia E60 uses the keyboard.

9?File security
A user may use the left and right soft key to browse the directories in the phone, and the user may choose the files to encrypt or decrypt.

10?Auto start enable
By default, this application is auto-started.

Oct 30 2008

The History Of Mobile Phone Ringtones

The first commercial cellphone with ringtones sold in May of 1996 and it was the Digital Mova N103 Hyper. The ringtones were not downloadable and the phone had just a few preset songs in MIDI format, a high quality audio file format. Then in September of 1996, there was the Digital Minimo D319, the fist cell phone where a user could input an original melody for a ringtone, rather than just a few preset songs.

The first downloadable mobile ringtone service was created and delivered in Finland in 1998. A Finnish mobile company started a service called Harmonium that delivered monophonic ringtones, a series of notes, one musical note at a time.

Harmonium was innovative because it had tools for both individuals to create monophonics, and a mechanism to deliver them over-the-air via SMS to a mobile handset. On November 1998, Digitalphone Groupe started a similar service in Japan. Later came polyphonic downloadable ringtones that were more advanced than the monophonics because they were able to play about 40 notes at a time and sounded more like the actual song they were playing. Neither of these though was able to truly mimick the songs, and could not play lyrics.

This is an excerpt shared from an article here

May 16 2008

The M-wallet By Motorola(Mobile Payment System)


Motorola has announced a new mobile payment and transaction system known as M-Wallet for the US market. The M-Wallet service will come in the form of a downloadable application, compatible with not only Motorola handsets, but also handsets from other manufacturers. The M-Wallet system will only allow banking transactions such as online bill payments, funds transfers, and purchases through participating retailers such as airlines.
For the technology to take off, Motorola needed to have agreements with carriers to support M-Wallet. Now Motorola has launched it and is going successfully.

Mar 26 2008

"Microsoft Towards iPhone"

It is planed by Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) to offer software for the ipone, saying in a recent interview that developers are considering a variety of possibilities that include offering Office functionality on Apple’s smart phone. Microsoft’s focus on the iPhone stems from Apple’s release of a software development kit this month. The iPhone SDK, released in beta, gives developers access to the same tools Apple developers use for building applications that run on the iPhone’s Max OS X-based operating system. In an interview with Fortune magazine, published online Tuesday, Tom Gibbons, corporate VP of Microsoft’s Specialized Devices and Applications Group, said the software maker was looking closely at the SDK and considering its options.