Magic Numbers Finder on Orange
I just published my first app to help people save money on there phone bills by adding Orange network numbers to their magic numbers plan to get free calls from an 80p app.
Credit to google and Taiic for making this possible.
Use ‘Magic Numbers Finder’ to check if you can save money calling your favourite people. This app allows you to check their number to see if they are with Orange*.
Save £££’s by adding them to your Magic Numbers list to call them for free (on Pay Monthly)for as long as you want**, or an hour for 20p on PAYG.
Orange Magic Numbers is available on most Orange pay monthly Contracts and PAYG plans, please see the official site for full details and terms and conditions.
Remember you can add an extra magic number every 6 months if you stay on an eligible pay monthly plan.
*** Features***
Checks your contacts number against a database of known Orange numbers to see if they may be eligible to be used as a Magic Number.
Smooth, easy to use interface.
Remembers contacts you have already found in a convenient list ready to be added to your Magic Numbers.
Permissions:
Storage – To keep a list of all the contacts you have found.
Network communications – used to link out to the Orange website for full terms and conditions.
Your personal information – needed to access your contacts list to check their numbers.
Phone calls – The app checks that you are not in a call.
Disclaimer:
The app is in no way endorsed by ‘Orange’ or the ‘Everything Everywhere’ company. This app is provided ‘as is’ to help you save money.
* Some numbers may be false positives/negatives as people may have taken their number to or from another network, unfortunately there is no way for this to be taken into account. Orange have specific terms and conditions on availability and usage costs of their Magic Numbers service which you can find on Oranges website.
.Any queries with use of magic numbers should be referred directly to Orange.
** Orange state that the Promotion is subject to a fair usage policy, which is currently defined as a maximum call duration of 3 hours per Magic Number per day.
Metr0 is a very useful public transportation app long available on a whole slew of platforms other than Android. On 31 July the developers released a preview version at their blog.
Their website has extensive general information about the program.
What's the big deal given that there are already other transport apps on the Market? Well, this preview version already beats all the ones I've tried, and most of the features available on other platforms aren't even enabled yet. Metr0 is so useful to me that when I travel I carry an old inactivated Windows phone just to run it. It's not just a collection of subway maps (in fact, if you want to see a map of a system, this isn't the tool for you).
Appearance and (eventual) function of the Android version is very close to the iPhone version.
Here are some of the ways in which it's great (at least in the completed versions):
400 cities worldwide
data frequently updated by users
all data stored offline on your device so you don't rack up roaming data charges
enter start and ending points and your route will be computed and time estimated
details provided when you need to transfer so you don't end up on the wrong train
extensive list of POI's since you probably don't know the best stations for unfamiliar cities
autocompletion, which helps with foreign spelling
quick "reverse route" button for returning to your starting point without re-entering anything or reading in reverse order
subway and bus routes for many cities, allowing for optimal routing
set preferences to minimize transfers, minimize walking, avoid buses, etc.
knows when stations or routes are closed, takes this into account when routing so you don't end up stranded
exclude specific lines if desired (smelly hobos, unreliable, etc.)
features of particular use to commuters and locals
features of particular use to tourists
roughly 50 cities have geolocation data, allowing routing to or from particular addresses or from your current location without knowing what your nearest stop is
It's free, has been for many years, and is planned to remain free (although they'll happily accept donations).
I'm really happy about this, if you can't tell!
There's also a database for Liberty City from Grand Theft Auto IV.
Hi all,
I'm Guy from Onavo, and I wanted to share with you all that after much anticipation Onavo (which was available only for the iPhone till now) has come to Android!
Today we launched Onavo Lite, an app that solves the "Android data leak", as we call it. In the world of capped data plans (not to mention outrageous roaming charges), the problem with the Android ecosystem is apps run constantly in the background, which means they can be using data whether you use the app or not. Users have no control and no way to limit the data that is used. Until now.
Launched today, Onavo Lite puts users in control of their data usage. The app flags 'data hog' apps and allows users to make apps 'WiFi only', effectively stopping the data leakage.
The app helps control data usage and costs through features such as:
- Alerts and warnings: when an app is hogging data in the background, when approaching your cap, or when traveling
- Data hog blocking: can opt to block certain apps over 3G, or 3G data in general once you exceed your data cap to avoid any additional costs
- Tracking: Real-time data plan tracking and early alerts when usage reaches certain limits.
- Advice: Tips on best value data plans based on your actual usage
- Simple set up: Removes all the complexity from mobile data plans
If any of you have any questions, feel free to shoot them my way here in the forum. We would love your feedback on our app.
To download just search for "Onavo" on the Market.
I'm happy to see this app finally reach android, but the version for android doesn't do the main thing it does on the iPhone: compress data.
There are already apps that monitor data usage.. so why is this different?
other apps also have notification and that stuff.
So when will the data compressing feature be available?
Hi Ilya,
Compression for Android is definitely on its way, we are working to bring that to you as well. However we realized that to help users truly tame data plans, we needed to deliver a more holistic solution. Since on Android background data usage is a REAL problem (as opposed to iPhone) so we simply couldn't wait to release this to the public and deliver this great value. (Google for "android iphone data usage" to see a post on our blog, from our chief Android guru, on the conceptual differences between Android's and iPhone's data consumption models).
There are some great meters out there, but nothing provides:
a) Real-time alerts when apps are eating up your data in the background
b) Crowdsourced intelligence that lets you learn from our global community and get advance warnings on apps that may be problematic to your data plan.
c) The ability to block apps from using your mobile data in the background.
Add to that compression, when we release that, and you've got a one-stop-shop for all your data usage needs.
I have a few feature requests:
- specify another currency (as I am in a foreign country, it is definitely the wrong one).
- specify the begin of the monthly plan (I can specify this value for the domestic, but not for the roaming plan)
- specify previously used data - I already used some data prior to the installation
After all, looks promising...
Kind regards,
ww
All good points. Quick questions:
a) the app should suggest your own local currency (that of the SIM). This usually makes sense as if you're on your home operator's SIM you pay in your home currency, if you buy a prepaid SIM locally it would be in that country's price. What's the scenario in your case?
b) Can you describe the kind of roaming plan you're using?
Thanks!
Quick answers:
- austrian SIM (EUR), I am in Switzerland at the moment (roaming). Result: currency shown in CHF.
- my plans both begin on 26th of the month. Domestic plan: 1 GB; roaming plan: 50 MB. In the app I can specify the begin of the domestic plan. But: roaming plan begins today from my point of view.
Kind regards,
ww
Gotcha! Thanks for clarifying - definitely stuff we'd like to take care of.
Keep us posted
@webwude - we just uploaded a new version with some bugfixes, among them we have fixed your point #1 about the currency.
Thank your for the information.
I experiencing a strange issue (maybe related to your app):
since this morning, I get timeouts using the standard internet app, k-9 mail, gmail and so on - only a few apps (mail with exchange, provider app) are still working, all other (which I have used in the meantime) seems to be blocked, even after uninstalling your app. Is there any way to reset things as they were before? If I start apps which I haven't used since yesterday, they can connect... otherwise I can see that there is traffic, but browser or market just get timeouts...
It seems, that there is some sort of lock...
I will investigate this furthermore this evening...
Kin regards,
ww
Hi, i have one question. How do i turn the "Roaming, enjoy your trip" notification off? I'm always roaming (it's complicated) so i'm getting a bit annoyed when that notification sticks itself up there and i can't remove it.
Thanks in advance
There appears to be a huge discrepancy between the usage level reported by 3G Watchdog and Onavo - 304MB and 855MB respectively. What's the cause of the discrepancy, and which app would be more reliable?
@webwude - re some apps not connecting, that shouldn't be Onavo (especially not after you removed it). Did you find out what happened?
@BazookaAce - good point! BTW what kind of SIM are you using?
@Kawdess - we're looking into such discrepancies, will let you know what we find.
Tele 2 Sweden, but I live in Norway and my operator is Tele 2 Norway but Tele 2 Norway is roaming on NetComs towers. Tele 2 Norway doesn't have its own yet.
So since the SIM is swedish it "calls home" (to sweden) before bouncing back to norway and completes the call.
So Tele 2 Norway customers roam 24/7. And no, we do not pay more than normal
How many times have you forgotten where you had parked?
With this app you will not forget where you parked your car, motorbike, bike or horse...
With a simple and intuitive interface you can save the position where he parked and then get directions from wherever you are.
The application can also save the position of the vehicle automatically when you disconnect the headset, by example.
HOW IT WORKS
A button will appear in the bottom-right of the screen when the location will be fixed with the defined accuracy.
Press the button to save your car location.
When you can re-enter the app it will display the route to your vehicle and, of course, you can save the car location again.
Easier impossible!
PLAY STORE LINK
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ryosoftware.whereismycar
PERMISSIONS
Fine and coarse locations: Required to fix your location
Write external storage: Required by GoogleMaps API
Internet and Access network state: Required by GoogleMaps API and by Ads (in the free version)
Billing and Get Accounts: Required to manage InApp billing
Bluetooth: Required to automatically save current location when BT device disconnected (see app settings)
Vibrate: Required to vibrate when current location saved
Read phone state: To disable voice speech while incall
Only to let us know 2 rellevant dates for this app:
* May 3: I have pulled the app from the Play Store. Active users can use the app but no new installs are allowed.
* June 11: Google Maps API becomes a payment API and developers needs to create a billing account to continue using it. I do not agree with that, so I do not intend to create the billing account. I assume that the app will stop working sooner than later from that date.
Just for your information, I paste a rellevant part of the email that I have received on May 3 from Google...
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Hi,
Today we are announcing important changes, including our new name - Google Maps Platform, a simplified product structure, pay as you go pricing for all, and more. Please take a few minutes to review the announcement to familiarize yourself with the upcoming changes.
We would like to highlight a few updates that may impact your implementation. Beginning June 11th, we are launching our new pricing plan and providing all users access to support. We’ll continue to offer a free tier — all developers will receive $200 of free monthly usage of our core products.
In addition, this change will require you to enable billing and associate it with all of your Google Maps Platform projects. Creating a billing account helps us better understand your usage so we can continue developing helpful products. It also allows you to scale easily with less downtime and fewer performance issues if your product grows beyond the $200 of free monthly usage. For additional visibility and control you can set daily quotas or billing alerts.
Introduction:-
Otubio gives you the ability to make cheap, affordable, and effortless international calls to several destinations all over the world. Calling quality is simply perfect and you can get to try first call FREE and then you can go for adding credit. OTUBIO cheap international call app also provides the facility to unlimited calls to selected destinations such as, Nigeria, India, Bangladesh & Pakistan.
App link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.otubio&hl=en
Features:
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- Very Competitive rates and prices are normal
- Provides free Facility to Otubio users to chat and call each other.
- Unlimited plans to some countries.
- Auto Recharge.
- Transfer credit to other Otubio users.
- Call via Local access number or internet.
& A lot more cool features are already added in the app.
Download and start calling to your destinations