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A few weeks after third-party apps started filtering in, Google’s launched its own Google Voice app for the iPhone, and it looks to have all the most important features: call and text support, push notifications, and voicemail access (including transcriptions). It’s available right now — US only at the moment — on iPhones with iOS 3.1 or higher as long as you’ve got a valid Google Voice account set up… so get to it.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Note: For some reason, you need to search the App Store for “googlevoice,” not “google voice.” Weird, we know.

Official Google Voice app for iPhone hits the App Store originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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written by Duy Phong \\ tags: appstore, breakingnews, googlevoice, hits-the-app, Iphone, launched-its, moment, search-the-app, text-support, voice

Milestone A854 is the codename of the new Motorola smartphone that will soon be launched by MTS in Canada. At the moment there isn’t an exact release date, but there are some known specifications such as a 3.7-inch touchscreen, a 5-megapixel camera with flash, and a QWERTY keyboard. Other details include Android 2.1 as the [...]

written by iieevvn \\ tags: details, details-include, exact-release, milestone a854, moment, motorola, will-soon

China Telecom and HTC worked in cooperation the come up with their latest flagship smartphone entitled HTC T919 Oboe. While the release date and price tag of the HTC 9199 is uknown at the moment, there are some known specifications including: – Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8650 processor at 1GHz; – Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional as the [...]

written by pietro842 \\ tags: cell phones, china-telecom, htc, htc t9199, latest, latest-flagship, moment, oboe, professional, qualcomm, some-known, the-come, windows, windows-mobile

The fact that Shakespeare was one of the greatest creators of insults is indisputable (whether or not the man actually existed, alas, is another matter for another time). Read through almost any of the Bard’s plays, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Henry IV, and you’ll find them replete with creative, dynamic, and, best of all, highly effective insults. Online, there are entire sites dedicated to the analysis of Shakespeare’s put-downs and generators for dynamically creating your own using bits and pieces of his own words.

Is it any wonder, then, that the Shakespearean insult has finally found its way onto the iPhone? Developer rbjz postindustries’ Sound+Fury provides a simple interface for accessing a repository of Shakespeare’s most famous insults. Unfortunately, there’s not enough in the app at the moment to warrant a purchase.

Opening Sound+Fury takes a user directly to the main interface screen. There, you find three dials: one for the gender of the individual (or, if you prefer, you may choose a genderless group) you intend to insult, one for whether you intend to insult him face-to-face or behind his backs, and one for whether you want to insult his looks, his character or his smarts. Once these variables are chosen, you click the Insult button and a famous (or, in some cases, not so famous) Shakespearean insult is revealed, along with the title of the source play.

Note that Sound+Fury is NOT a Shakespearean insult generator, as it does not create anything new. Rather, it is an interesting way to search a library of established Shakespearean insults. My only problem with this is that the insults aren’t all that good (there are certainly better ones out there in the Bard’s plays) and sometimes the variables you choose result in no insult at all. This is particularly odd, since there are so few variables to choose from.

The conceit of the app is that you can use it to “dial up” an insult as your personal situation warrants, but the possibilities are so limited at the moment it doesn’t seem to do this job very well. And if you want to peruse a listing of Shakespeare’s insults, well there are plenty of places to do just that for free online.

Sound+Fury benefits from a streamlined, simple interface; it simply needs to grant users greater flexibility and creativity. No insult intended.

[ Sound+Fury Review is a post from 148Apps ]

written by pietro842 \\ tags: analysis, entertainment, gender, moment, opening-sound, overall-rating, price, shakespearean, time