iPhone 2.0 only: Free application Fring puts popular chat applications on your iPhone, including Skype—and the ability to make Skype voice over IP calls when your phone is connected to a Wi-Fi network. Fring puts all your chat buddies from AIM, MSN, Google Talk, Yahoo, ICQ, Twitter, and Skype on your iPhone, and lets you know who’s online when. Chat your buddies whether you’re connected via data or Wi-Fi, and make Skype calls (or Skype Out calls) when you’re on a local network. Fring is a free download for iPhones running the 2.0 software.
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The world’s first Android phone, made by HTC for T-Mobile, is officially a go tomorrow morning, and we’ll be bringing it to you live. The event officially kicks off at 10:30AM Eastern—7:30AM if you’re on the West Coast, ahahaha—but the doors open at 10, and we’ll be getting there even earlier. The liveblog will be at the usual spot, live.gizmodo.com, where the updates will be superfast and stocked with the prettiest liveblog pics around, as always. To get you primed and up to speed, here’s a roundup of everything we know:
•It’ll be $199 and have a low-cost data plan—the “heavy Google branding” says G1 more so than Dream
•It looks like this (and this)
•It’ll be out in October
•Bluetooth is crippled, and it’s missing Google Talk
•There will be lotsa location-based apps
•The Android app market will be totally open
•The Android OS will look something like this
•It could help Google profile you
•Five reasons to be excited, and five not to be
[Gizmodo Android Liveblog]
Windows only: Free application Gbridge sets up a virtual private network between any computer over the internet using your Google account as a starting point. Once set up, Gbridge allows you to share files, connect to and remotely control a computer using VNC, sync folders, and back up files to another computer. If you’ve got Google Talk/Gmail chat friends using Gbridge, the app provides the same functionality between your computer and theirs. It all sounds a little convoluted, but in effect it’s actually a relatively painless way for anyone to setup up a VPN between computers, and assuming you’ve already got a Google account, it doesn’t require you to sign up for anything else. The application could be a bit more intuitive in practice, but in terms of what it accomplishes, it’s a winner. Gbridge is freeware, Windows only. Despite the name, it’s not associated with Google.
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