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The video is Long (32 Minutes!).
- It starts with a parody song (as usual!).
- 3:35 Trends for 2009
- 4:30 VoIP cell phones
- 6:40 VoIP on Mobile Phones with T-Mobile (By the way BT has it too!)
- 10:40 Grand Central: A service that rings all your phone numbers at once at the same time on a single number! Watch the demo
- 12:50 Google Cellular: Free SMS and Voice initiated 411 directory enquiry service
- 16:25 1800 Cha Cha: Ask any question by voice and get answer by text
- 18:00 Voice Messagase by email or SMS services e.g. spinvox, PhoneTag and CallWave
- 21:00 More on Callwave and a feature demo
- 22:35 Popularity Dialer .com
- 23:50 iPhone beginings. How iPhone changed US carriers
- 25:00 iPhone with internet all the time
- 26:30 iPhone shuffle and App Store apps demos like: Midomi, Pandora, Urban Spoon
- 28:30 T-Mobile G1 and Verizon
- 29:30 End with a Song: The iPhone Song

The first ever Android was released in the USA in November but as in the previous post here on Mysecured.com, there were no people linening up outside of shops there!… The T-Mobile G1 was released in the UK yesterday (October 30th), with about the same results as the US launch… No one seems to be interested in it so far.

The week the same still holds even after reports show that the phone has been unlocked as shown in the video below:

Is this about to change here in Australia? Well, I’ve asked around and it seems like people were holding back on buying the US version of the G1 because they though it was using different 3G bands than the ones Australian telecoms use. But they thought that UK version will use the same frequencies as the Ausie carriers but so far there are no UK version T-Mobile G1s on sale on eBay UK.

Buyers here in Australia might be more interested in buying the UK version of the G1 but for now they have no choice but to wait for some of them to be either available on eBay. There is another choice however which is to buy an proprietary Android phone from an Australian technology company Kogan Technologies which will start selling their in house Chinese manufactured Android based phones that will go on sale on December 15 for $199 AUD.

For more details on that story go to:
The Age.

In other reports, people just don’t see that the G1 is either open source nor ground breaking. Wired Magazine notes that the phone has restricted use of VOIP technology as in this article:
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/09/g1-android-phon.html

A dual phone with GSM and VOIP and running Windows Mobile Smartphone Edition. Sounds like it is going to run Windows Mobile 6 by the time it’s going to be released. Find out more on:
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/03/28/zyxel-launches-the-v660-smartphone/

What’s this:

1. A USB Memory stick.
2. A solar powered device.
3. An MP3 Player.
4. A VoIP device.
5. All of the above
6. 1,2, and 4 only.

For the answer, go to:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/a-datas-solar-disk-and-voip-disk/

It can connect to any home, office, cafe, or municipal wireless access point that does not require browser-based authentication. Supports WEP, WPA and WPA2 with PSK.

Link:
http://www.belkin.com/skype/howitworks/

I remember Phil telling me something about voice encryption a long time ago… I think it was in Techno-Security 2001! I guess this is the final product of that.  Well, it is still in Beta.

I love how Phil approached the VOIP encryption problem.  With Zfone, he uses a new protocol called ZRTP, which differs from other approaches that rely on PKI, key certification, trust models, certificate authorities, or key management. It is NOT a server based solution and it does perform its key agreements and key management in a pure peer-to-peer manner.

This has been a long time coming project for Phil and I wish him all the best with it.

Link:
http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/zfone/index.html