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Article about FriendCaller in the local newspaper

Published on August 27, 2010 by max in Android app, Browser Based VoIP, C2Call, FriendCaller, Technology News, VoIP Freedom and iPhone and iPod VoIP. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

After C2Call in recent weeks by the financing round of $ 2 million from well-known US investors and the crossing of the 1 million user mark could generate worldwide buzz, now a local newspaper reported on our company.

C2Call CTO Michael Knecht was interviewed and was able to closely examine the company’s philosophy. Thus, one of the main objectives of FriendCaller, not technical-affine users to enter the Voice over IP technology easy as possible, although VoIP, in addition to very cheap fares, especially abroad, has many other advantages, the market until now is still very small.

The headline of the article

A quote from the article: “Whether, we in a few years all use this technology, Michael Knecht believes open: ‘This also depends on the network operators’.” The behaviour of the net operators is really a hot topic , but we hope to continue the VoIP freedom.
Especially our iPhone and Android Apps be acknowledged.
So many thanks to the Westfalenpost for this article, with which many people are reached, which have not yet heard of us.

No Chance for illegal apps – Google introduces Androids new “licensing service”

Published on July 29, 2010 by Andre in Android, Android app, Features, General, Technology News and Tips and Tricks. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

Thats how it works!

Google announced that there will be a licensing service for applications in the Android Market Place to shield that Apps can be copied and spread without charges.  That way Google reacts on the sustained criticism of many developers that it is to easy for users to exchange apps illegally.

In the future the licensing service will synchronize the data with the Google server to detect if users are legitimized to use the software. If the opposite is true the app will withdraw the service.

So you can be glad that the FriendCaller App, which enables you free international calls, is for free!

Androids Market Place increased tenfold

Published on July 15, 2010 by Andre in Android, Android app, Technology News and Tips and Tricks. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , .

Googles Android: iPhones greatest competition.

The number of Apps for Googles Smartphone Software Android grows at express speed. The quantity of new added software has been increasing month to month for a year and now the mark of 90.000 Apps is passed. In June 2009 the number of new added applications amounted to about 1700 and in June 2010 it were nearly  already 17000 new software-apps, which means that the market place could decuple in a year.

This trend might continue in the future, since its no more than mid-July and there are already 10.000 new apps in the market place this month.  Based on this expansion rate there might be a million software downloads from android users right now.

Needless to say FriendCaller also offers an application for Android. For this reason Android users also have the chance to benefit from FriendCallers cheap prices for international phone calls.

Finally the Android 2.2 makes app update handy

Published on May 31, 2010 by Shabaz in Android, Android app, Features and Technology News. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

froyoNot long ago we blogged about the Android’s lack of updating apps, like sometimes skipping updates and the missing feature of updating all apps in one go. Our support team faced several complaints from Android users like why FriendCaller’s features are claimed but not provided. Each time we have to convince our Android users to manually update the app, as we all knew that Android’s capability of updating apps is not so friendly. Sometimes the OS looks for updates on a regular basis but most of the times even after several updates by the developers, the OS fails to look for an available update from developers.

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Android's 2.2 Update All apps feature

Looks like the problem have been solved now. We are happy to welcome the latest release of Android 2.2 which solved our app updating issue. Android 2.2 users can now navigate to their downloads and select the option Allow Automatic Updating check-box for any particular app they want to update automatically. This new feature is far more better than what the previous version of Android OS offered, where a user had to navigate to the Downloads and then check whether there was any update available for a particular app or not.

The best part is that the new 2.2 version of Android OS allows the user to update all the apps in one go by simply clicking the Update All button in Downloads. iPhone users have been a bit proud uptil now because of the iPhone having the Update all button since the beginning, and Android not. But, now it seems that Android users can enjoy more freedom in updating apps and can prevent the tedious task of updating each app manually and separately.

Now is the time when Google should start focusing to pimp its Android Marketplace which lacks a lot what Apple’s App Store has to offer currently.

To learn more about the new features of Android 2.2, watch the video below:

Developer Frustration with Android Market

Published on May 6, 2010 by Shabaz in Android, Android app and iTunes App Store. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .
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Developers view: Empty Android shopping bag

We have been very frank in the past about the challenges we have been experiencing with the iTunes App Store, the approval process and we have reported about the great progress Apple Inc. made. In the beginning there was no love lost between Apple and iPhone VoIP apps: We had to wait for weeks to get our FriendCaller VoIP processed and more than one time they were rejected with rather obscure reasons. That changed. iTunes approval is now very fast, and updates to our FriendCaller apps are approved within days even the fact of iPad drastically increasing the approval workload.

Now it is time for developers like us to call on Google Inc. to made improvements to the Android Market. The good news first: There is no approval process, you upload the app and it goes Online in a matter of minutes. The bad news: there is almost nothing else either, the web version of the Android Market provides the feel that it was created on one weekend and then abandoned. It has

  • No Web preview, very limited app screen shot space and descriptions
  • No complete web store to speak of, a few example for each categories only
  • No proper app statistics, demographics etc for developers
  • No web review of user comments and ratings or browsing through stores
  • Ok, this is my favorite and I believe it is really funny: you can not even search the Android Market web version, believe it or not, yes you can not!

It gets a little better when one visits the market through an Android phone, but only a little. What puzzles us is the question that why the store has been neglected for so long? Google is famous for creating superior products, like think of Analytics, AdWord, Gmail, Google docs, Orkut, etc. Then how come Android Developers are to suffer from the fragmentation of OS version and the lack for common hardware standards like screen resolutions.

Our FriendCaller VoIP Android version is available on the store and still is in BETA. So it is an early effort, but it is very apparent that the Android market place is a way too behind the Apple iTunes store, and it is only able to deliver a small fraction of what iTunes has to offer.

A message to Google: there is some catch up to do on Android Market. As far as developers are concerned, we don’t see much interest developing there, and only see empty shopping bags.

QR bar codes – Scan and get all you want

Published on April 13, 2010 by Shabaz in Android, Android app, Features, Technology News and iPhone and iPod VoIP. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , .
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FriendCaller QR bar code

QR Code is basically a two-dimensional bar code which is now used by most of the mobile applications, magazines and newsletters, labels on marketed products and knowledge based websites. QR stands for Quick Response. They were basically created by a Japenese corporation Denso in 1994.

These codes have the ability to be scanned by bar code scanning apps, and provide the information/action encoded within them. On an Android phone, a free bar code scanner app, like ‘Barcode Scanner‘ by Zxing Team can be used to scan a QR code straight from the Android phone’s camera. The application can also be used on iPhones, Blackberry and other J2ME cell phones.

Once you have installed the Barcode Scanner, all you have to do is launch the app, and your camera will be automatically activated. Just hold your cell phone in front of the bar code you wish to read, and the app will read it in a moment. The information source encoded inside the bar code, will be decoded and you will get all you want to know.

This revolutionary use of bar codes allow developers to encode any kind of information or action. A bar code on a product label in a supermarket can tell nutrition info, price, etc. Similarly a bar code on a business card can contain extended information about the contact person, or company. Perhaps a bar code on a paid media streaming website can allow new customers to preview trailers in advance. The possibilities are endless.

FriendCaller barcode android install

Similarly, FriendCaller VoIP app can also be installed on an Android in the same manner. On Android page, you can scan the bar code and download the app rite away. There is no need to search for an app, no need to filter results again and again, just scan and get all you want.