Hello all,
WYMO (Watch Your Mobile Operator) is an Android friend that helps you find the cheapest mobile plan available for you in the UK market.
Our application is in beta testing phase and we are looking for volunteers who would agree to use WYMO's services free of charge and to give us invaluable feedback on their experiences.
If you are interested in giving our app a try and you have Android 2.3 on your phone please go to wymo.co.uk or search for Wymo on Facebook to get to our app's page, where you can find a link (as a noob I can't link here now) or drop a mail to [email protected] and I'll send you the apk.
If you’re a tester don’t hesitate to share your questions and ideas here in this thread or via the email address above. Testers will be asked in a few weeks by a questionnaire as well.
Details about how our app works:
The app is counting incoming and outgoing calls, SMSes, MMSes, data traffic and roaming as well (due privacy reasons it only watches the first 4 numbers of phone numbers). Then it searches for the cheapest plan available on the UK market by analysing the data gathered. The user will get an email about the better offers.
To gather sufficient amount of data the app needs a few weeks monitoring of usage. This happens automatically as the process runs in the background showing a green logo on the status bar.
On the first start the app asks for a few data: only a valid email address and the name of your operator is required. Gender, age, education and postal code are optional.
The main screen has 6 options:
Show report shows the measured usage data.
Discount numbers is where the user can add those numbers which it can call with discount prices (this helps us to be more accurate)
Number portability is where the user can set those contacts who have different prefix than their operator (it helps us to be more accurate as well).
Upload data to server option uploads the measured data to the server.
Settings leads to the app settings.
Purchase leads to the Market’s in-app payment system, where the user can pay to get the cheaper offer’s list. The user will get an email with the list of offers and their prices. For beta testers the service is free.
Should you have any questions, feel free to ask here or via email.
daniel
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Hi all
When emergency occur, most of mobile tracking application in the market require individual to take out their phone, and trigger a panic button to call for help, however, when facing emergency, we often found individual does not have the capacity to call for help, as user:
in panic mode
being force in unwanted situation
force to turn off their phone.
What is there is a service that will automatically trigger for help without any action from user? Even user force to turn off their phone?
secQ.me is a new way of protecting individual (especially for woman and children) by ofter them a "virtual" guardian angel that watch over them, should they being force in any unwanted situation, or in emergency, our service will automatically notify user's friend and family via email and SMS. User's friend and family could also track their latest location, voice message, picture (if user has register any picture, such as Taxi Driver, or someone she just meet) from our portal.
We like to invite XDA members to try out our app, go to Android Market, and search "secq.me", and download
Here's are the steps to activate and use our services
1) Register your account from the Android App or our Portal at secQ.me
2) An activation email will send to your email account, click the activation link
3) Once activated, login to our portal, and configure your emergency contacts, and your SNS (Facebook & Twitter) setting
4) Verify secQ.me Android app by key in your email and your register event pin
5) Start using the services
BTW, all new sign up account will have 10 sms credits, which is use for notification purpose..
Please note that at this Moment the SMS credit is only valid for Malaysia Mobile Number (btw, I am from Malaysia).. We are currently working with a international SMS GW provider to support SMS to most of countries
Appreciate your feedback and comments about our service
Thanks!
James Khoo
PS
As I can't link any external resource when posting this thread, if you interested,
You could do a search on "secq.me" on youtube to see a demo video we submitted for YTL Global Developer Challenge.
Visit our blog at blog dot secq dot me to find out more about secq.me
Hi all:
I am a developer for an app that forwards SMS (and other things) to an email address. Obviously it would be elegant to be able to reply to your SMS right from your email account, while the other side still sees your SMS in the normal way, and the app does exactly this.
But to get the reply back to the phone via email, we need the user to enter the email-to-SMS address as part of setup. You know, like [email protected] or @vtext.com. The app has a database for some countries and carriers but obviously its a drop in the bucket.
We are finding out that maybe not a lot of people know of such a feature on their phones, hence this poll! It'll help us try some other ideas, or implement this one differently.
Thanks!
PVS
PhoneLeash - free on Android Market
Rogers (in Canada) has this service.. but they charge us for it. So not many people actually have it.
Thanks to everyone who responded. As a result of the poll results, PhoneLeash now supports forwarding SMS (and missed calls, and location, and battery status) to another phone number via SMS. And replying back to these forwarded SMS' does not require an email-to-SMS feature. If you forward to a Google Voice number (or other PC-based SMS-capable services such as HeyWire, Pinger), you can use a PC, and enjoy a very nice feature set (see this review).
Thanks for the useful development for mobile users and internet users as well.
However, I'm already using this service with the help of third party i.e. TextMarketer.co.uk
Play (Poland) already has such a service. It is free for everyone. Polish speakers can check it here: http://www.blogplay.pl/2010/11/kopia-sms-na-email-beta/
hi all,
CrowdCall allows to call free of cost to 40 countries. 10 calls are free per day. Has anyone know if this is a genuin app or so sort of phone info harvesting app?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.socialdial.crowdcall.app&hl=en
Note: I am not doing the advt of the app. Just wanted to understand if there is any risk in using this app...
coolgal302006 said:
hi all,
CrowdCall allows to call free of cost to 40 countries. 10 calls are free per day. Has anyone know if this is a genuin app or so sort of phone info harvesting app?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.socialdial.crowdcall.app&hl=en
Note: I am not doing the advt of the app. Just wanted to understand if there is any risk in using this app...
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I used it once to initiate a conference call. It worked for setting up the call but the sound quality was pretty terrible. All of the participants on my call were within the United States, so I don't know how it works internationally.
From the website, here's the data they collect:
Information we collect and how we use it
We may collect the following types of information:
Cookies – When you download CrowdCall, we send one or more cookies to your phone or other device. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service, including for storing user preferences, improving search results and ad selection, and tracking user trends, such as how people search.
Log information – When you access CrowdCall services via a browser, application or other client our servers automatically record certain information. These server logs may include information such as your web request, your interaction with a service, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your account.
User communications – When you send email or other communications to CrowdCall, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services. When you send and receive SMS messages to or from one of our services that provides SMS functionality, we may collect and maintain information associated with those messages, such as the phone number, the wireless carrier associated with the phone number, the content of the message, and the date and time of the transaction. We may use your email address to communicate with you about our services.
Location data – CrowdCall offers location-enabled services. CrowdCall may receive information about your actual location (such as GPS signals sent by a mobile device) or information that can be used to approximate a location (such as a cell ID).
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Good app. No issues till now!
simplyapplied said:
I used it once to initiate a conference call. It worked for setting up the call but the sound quality was pretty terrible. All of the participants on my call were within the United States, so I don't know how it works internationally.
From the website, here's the data they collect:
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/cowboy.gif
well ,I have used this app a couple of times recently.For a free calling app Its pretty good only if u wanna compromisehttp://forum.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/frown.gif with the sound quality and limitation of 1 hour. I mainly use it to call overseas frnds which is quite costly if ur using a standard cellular device. http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/mad.gif The main advantage I enjoyed is that U dont need any other client software for the clients ,http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/good.gif .Just cell number is enough. Regarding the info they collect , I am not sure about that. Haven't faced any issues regarding that.
still ,good enough app if u ask me! http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/cowboy.gif
Hi,
I have developed a small app, which will turn your mobile in to a SMS gateway (Incoming and Outgoing). Actually I have built this software for one of our web app, which send SMS on user registration or when there is any bill due.
Bulk SMS from web interface
Advance group handling i.e. create multiple groups with 1 million members each
API support (for outgoing and incoming SMS). You can integrate this gateway with your website or desktop application to send SMS on trigger basis. Our API is platform and language independent, therefore you can use it with any programming language like JavaScript (node.js, jquery), Ruby on Rails, PHP, ASP.NET, ASP etc.
Two-way SMS i.e. incoming SMS processing. Check the response rate of your campaign.
Missed Call Service
Delivery Reports
You will be charged only for delivered SMS.
Post-paid billing by your carrier.
Your brand, your number.
Add multiple numbers (SIM/Phone) to build a large cluster.
Send SMS even on DND listed numbers if, they are registered with you.
SMS queuing (i.e. if your mobile can not connect to internet to fetch the data than we will queue the messages till it gets a connection.)
Runs as a gateway i.e. it will work in background on your mobile without interrupting your day to day tasks.
Full control on message sending.
Application can be downloaded from market://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.znisms.bulksms
Once you downloaded the app and registered an account just reply to the welcome mail and I will add a lifetime license on your account (it's free for one month only for a normal user) as my thanks to XDA community from, which I have learnt a lot.
API Details
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Parameters:
userid: ID created on ZNISMS.com
apikey: 32bit API Key (provided by ZNI)
sendto: Mobile number on which message has to be sent.
message: URL encoded message. Max 160 characters.
device: device ID from, which you want to send SMS, in case multiple devices are registered with us.
Please note this application (while running) consumes battery at very fast rate therefore it is recommended that you keep your phone plugged in while using this app.
Login from mobile.znisms.com to manage groups and send SMS.
Feel free to ask for features whatever you feel useful for your app or service.
I have spent a considerable amount of time looking for an app that can do this. I have tried around 50 apps from the google store but not many of them can generate an Australian number. I did generate a US number but that app limited the number to 15 minutes which doesn't meet my needs. I want an app that can generate me a permanent Australian mobile number that can receive texts. Especially verification texts when creating an account like a gmail account or any other site that requests a mobile number when creating an account.
The apps I've tried so far either only allow US and surrounding regions or they are very poorly coded and registration/signup cannot be completed.
Have you tried "text now"? It creates a US phone number, that number has been live for months now. Also I suggest you to read their privacy policy.