Natali Del Conte: Google Voice finally starts to let in new users, T-Mobile launches the
MyTouch which is a follow up to the G1 and your favorite blogger may
not get so many free launches anymore. Its Monday, June 22nd I’m Natali
Del Conte and it’s time to get loaded.
Google has started to roll out Google Voice, the program has been limited
to old grand central costumers for sometime now but the company is
finally letting new costumers in and taking people off the wait list to been
waiting for this for months. This is the service that rings all your phones at
ones and transcribes your voicemails into an email. I’ve been using it for
about a month in half and I did a demo this morning on the CBS early
show, take a look.
Male: So you set this to ring your iPhone, your Blackberry and the CNET I mean
the—
Natali Del Conte: And a Pre that I’ve been testing. And also will ring my office phone right
now.
Male: Okay, alright.
Natali Del Conte: Yeah, so call it just press call that’s my Google Voice number, there we
go. That’s our Sir Wil’s phone and it’s going to call all three of my phone
so if I’m running around with my work corporate, Blackberry or my
personal iPhone if I’m sitting there all these phones are ringing at once
because I said it to ring and my office phone is ringing. So I pickup this
call, this phone are just going to know that and stop ringing I’m going to
end this call. If I decide not to get that call and it goes to voice mail, then
Google will transcribe that voicemail into an email which I can display on
google.com.
Male: Oh that’s pretty cool. Now you talk and you’re getting to an actual usual
function that I can identify alright so in this case?
Natali Del Conte: So I have Rush call me this morning and he left the message and it
transcribe that into an email that I can read. You can see it say’s Bradley
even though my name is Natali, Google Voice the speech is not really all
that accurate but let’s play it and see what he said to me.
Rush: Hi Natali! It’s Rush, Winos can you buy me one of those smart phones
I’ve been wanting one for a long time and I figure you have a hook up. No
fracture, thanks bye.
Male: Okay.
Natali Del Conte: So he is trying to get phone out of me. If you want to sign up to get in on
this go to goggle.com/voice. T-Mobile announced surprising and
availability to the MyTouch today, this is the follow up to the G1. It’s a
3G phone without a physical keyboard instead it has a 3.2 inch QVGA
touch screen display with the virtual keyboard that does working
landscape. It has a 3.2 megapixel camera, it cost $199 with the two year
agreement on T-Mobile and it would be available on July 8.
Speaking of android IBM launch the Wimbledon application this week for
android just in time for the world’s most renowned tennis tournament the
program super imposes real time stats and updates from social networks
like Facebook and Twitter into a video feed from the phone’s camera so if
you point your G1 at the court it will tell you which court you are looking
at, who is playing, who also play there etc. of course you have to be at the
tournament with the G1 for this works I’m not sure how many people will
actually fall into that category but it could be a model for sports
applications in the future or you point your phone at the player and get all
the stats and history. The new LG virtualization monitor may not interest
you right now but I suspect we’re going to see a lot more products of this
kind and not to distant future. It’s a flat screen monitor that can function as
a virtual computer by connecting a keyboard and mouse. It allows us
many as 11 users to share a single PC; it’s called the Smart Vine NSeries.
A 19 model will cost $199 and work with Windows and Linux no Mac;
LG says that the target market for this line of products is education and
service environments.
Sony plans to bit up its blue race strategy first the company announce a
new DB live feature called Movie IQ. Starting this September users with
the capable player will be strange IM DB like information about the
movies such as directors and actors. The facts will come from Sony’s
grace note and not IM DB. In addition the company is hoping to get more
blue ray and more notebooks starting with the new Vaio NW Series. The
computer starts at $870 with the blue ray player inside, that’s $799
without one. Apple is offering the $30 iTunes store credit to iPhone 3GS
costumers who had travel with the activation. On Sunday the company
started contacting costumer via email alerting them that they may
experience up to two days delayed due to system issues and high
activation volumes. This is highly reminiscing of last years in store
activation process which overload at AT&T server for hours. Also if you
are trigger happy like me a pre ordered the 3GS before the company
change its policy about subsidizing the phone price here what I did. I
called 1800 on my iPhone yesterday and was told that the amount should
adjust on my credit card as a bit broadcast is still has not but I will be
patient for just a little longer before I blow up the costumer service line.
When shopping on the internet consumers often search for reviews of
product and services and while many of you will visit CNET for you
information. Many of you will also scourer the net for blogs and personal
reviews. What you may not know is that many bloggers have accepted
free gifts like laptops, trips to Europe and even gift cards for there blog
post. The Federal Trade Commission is hoping to rain in on that parade by
making bloggers abide by the same rules that most journalist have to abide
by which is for discloser. The blogging community is obviously open arms
about this, they worry that in an accused has post could trigger an FTC
investigation. What do you think, should the FTC be able to pursue the
bloggers fear or do you consumers rights jumped for speech. Right in at
loaded at cnet.com. Those are your headlines for today but I was seeing
you tomorrow with more thank you for watching. I’m Natali Del Conte
with CNET TV and you’ve just been loaded.