saw this in another forum and thought i would ask...
What do you use your phone for primarily?
for me its music, quick pictures and above all else, web browsing.
What about you guys?
web browsing
games
apps apps, downloading apps
browsing
games
games
gps
texting
phone calls
i gotta be honest, i have never been able to enjoy games too much on mobile phones. I really would like to try samurai 2 (something like that) from the tegra store.
Phone calls, texting
and above else boredom killing, which consists of web browsing and playing games
I rarely use the music player or the camera
Web browsing, music, calling/texting. Occasionally, gaming but thats only when I dont have my DS or laptop on me.
If I could find a decent free offline GPS with turn by turn directions, I'd use mine as a car GPS as well.
I use mine for everything from a flashlight to a Pocket PC .
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i forgot about navigation too.
Surprisingly, i use the webtop quite often. I have occassional get togethers for dinner and its nice having the internet with a bluetooth keyboard on the big screen.
Facebook
Twitter
Browsing on websites that are blocked at work
Use the webtop to watch series on HD using the "series para android" app
Wifi tether
Video calling
Backbreaker
Chatting
Emails
&
Just about any use I can think of
messaging
email
music player
music/movie downloader
show content to clients via HDMI
camera/video camera if i dont have a DSLR handy
skype/tango
int'l phone (sim unlocked)
web browsing/shopping
watching movies (via HDMI not on the phone)
calls
i dont play games on it, never really cared for the webtop, dont need tethering, and only watch movies on my HDTV when im home (which is rare) maybe once or twice on the phone during flights because i have no cable television.
i have unlimited data (the truly unlimited data plan) from the old AT&T iphone plan that carried over, i was an iPhone 3G user and a Windows Mobile 5.x/6.1 user before that (AT&T Tilt touchflo LOL), so i do as much downloading and surfing on it as possible.
video playback,web,discovering linux
and im trying to avoid myself to play games
Texting, web browsing and social networking primarily.
It's also an extremely valuable tool for organizing things and just about everything else. I use it to VPN my computer at home, for it's GPS navigation, etc, etc. I couldn't live without my Android phone.
In this order...
1. Xda
2. Irc
3. Apps
4. Browsing
5. Gaming
6. Computer
7. Downloading files
8. Productivity tracking(work. Im a car salesman)
9. Texting
10. Music
11. Navigation
12. Webtop
13. Email
14. Quick office
15. Everything else
16. Lastly, phone calls
I use it for everything...
Edit: forgot tethering. Lol
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Texting, phone calls, email, Facebook, web browsing, and the occasional tethering when I have my iPad/laptop with me with no wifi around.
I'm in Japan so I use my phone for EVERYTHING...
A typical day has me:
Checking the train schedules so i can get the right train here
Use maps and GPS to find stuff
Use the NFC built in to my phone for EDY e-money
Watch TV (Japan has mobile Digital TV here)
Games-- I don't know how I'd survive my commute without Words or Angry Birds...
Web/RSS feeds
PIM stuff
Music
Oh and sometimes I get phone calls.
--and once I can get a rooted phone, TETHERING!
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my friend told me that there is this new cell phone player which has the capability to stream videos from
you tube,google,dailymotion and myspace when you search for one video but at first I thought he was kidding but later I found out that there is an cell phone application
can do this amazing stuff. This mobile application is called Avotmv and you can download this aaplication at http://www.avotmv.com it plays videos from you tube,google,dailymotion and myspace
the best news is that it's free and it will play on any phone windows mobile phone.My favorite part of about this application is that you don't have to have a specifc cell phone carrier.
Holy cow!!! this is the best thing that has happen to me after a long time. I love this application this is best video search application I have ever seen so far.
it works great on my windows WM phone. It plays videos without getting stuck and it's full screen what more can you ask for?
i'm connected via wifi. clicked on a video/thumbnail, but am stuck at the buffering page ..
how long does it take to stream a video?
i installed the app on storage card, could that be the reason?
thnx! looks like a wonderful app / service (if it works, that is..)
VTap
charleslee said:
i'm connected via wifi. clicked on a video/thumbnail, but am stuck at the buffering page ..
how long does it take to stream a video?
i installed the app on storage card, could that be the reason?
thnx! looks like a wonderful app / service (if it works, that is..)
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Check out http://vtap.com and get all the vidos on the web from all video web sites works on just about all mobile devices, even works on the Iphone and the BlackBerry..........!
sounds like PR spin to me.
Those first two posts are the funniest I've seen in a long time
okay - I could pretty much stream a full size DIVX thanks to EVDO Rev a - HOWEVER, here is my problem.
I go to any of the windows mobile video sites (I'm using the most recent DCD rom) and try to load it up. Pops up Windows Media player and then proceeds to.............. chug along.
I can't get a clean, stable streamed video. Not only that, but I can't seem to find ANY sites that have news/tv/blah - AT ALL.
Maybe I'm searching wrong - Maybe the sites I'm going to are slow as snot, who knows.
I do know that TCPMP works great for Divx, just tested that out, but I have unlimited internet, a connection that's faster than most people's home internet.... and, well - I CAN NOT USE IT!
Please help me utilize the super fast speeds of my phone so I can feel the glee when I see 800+ megs of usage
Tanks!
Nick
Also interested. Im tired of seeing just 25mb daily. I want MOAR!!
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okay - I could pretty much stream a full size DIVX thanks to EVDO Rev a - HOWEVER, here is my problem.
I go to any of the windows mobile video sites (I'm using the most recent DCD rom) and try to load it up. Pops up Windows Media player and then proceeds to.............. chug along.
I can't get a clean, stable streamed video. Not only that, but I can't seem to find ANY sites that have news/tv/blah - AT ALL.
Maybe I'm searching wrong - Maybe the sites I'm going to are slow as snot, who knows.
I do know that TCPMP works great for Divx, just tested that out, but I have unlimited internet, a connection that's faster than most people's home internet.... and, well - I CAN NOT USE IT!
Please help me utilize the super fast speeds of my phone so I can feel the glee when I see 800+ megs of usage
Tanks!
Nick
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I use TCPMP along with the flashvideo bundle to watch mostly youtube videos ( or sites compatible with the flashvideo bundle )
But I recently bought the successor to TCPMP Core Player I use this to view videos from websites that are not supported with the Flash Video Bundle & TCPMP, movies, some You Tube Videos, and more.
Plus It has other great features. (Just a second option )
Take a look for your self: http://coreplayer.com/content/view/28/45/
Either I'm a completely useless with searching (good possibility) or I just can't find what I'm looking for.
What I seek is an app near to or identical to ORB.
It allows me to stream My Video/Music from my networked PC on the go. Why not use orb? After trying it out I cannot get it to work on the nexus one. I would like something to take its place.
I've tried Orb (Winamp Remote) and Gmote but they didn't really offer much other than basic control over a music collection.
I now use Subsonic (subsonic.org) because of the flexibility and performance. It's only for music but on the forum, they've also gotten it to work with some video. The server software itself is meant to be run from a web browser (more options) but the Android app is still pretty slick. You can create different users and assign bitrate limits to them. For instance, I have 2 users.. one that uses the Android app, limited to 64kbps for EDGE/3G (music is re-encoded on your server itself using LAME) and another user with unlimited bitrate for use on a PC or on the N1 via WiFi.
Performance is pretty good because the app saves the songs/playlist to the SD card while it's playing (even large playlists). Each song that has been saved has a star next to it.
The Android app (free) will work for 30 days until you make a "donation" to license the server software for minimum 10€ (~$13). Well worth the cost. There's a demo on the site or you can PM me if you want to take it for a test drive.
Thank you for the reply, Im more interested in additionally finding a video option but I am going to give this a try for music.
Thanks again hopefully there is another option soon.
I just wanted to let people know that using VLC on Windows (I can't confirm other platforms) you can stream almost anything VLC can play to your device.
Simply open VLC, goto View, Add Interface, and select Web Interface.
On your device grab VLC stream and Convert from the market.
There are different modes available, for example you can use your device as a VLC remote control - or you can stream to your phone for viewing there.
Make sure you go into settings and make Portrait 480 and Landscape 800. Then goto Stream RTSP, enable MP4A LATM, Set audio to 160, use 5 reference frames, and raise video bitrate to the most your network or connection can handle (If using a VPN you should be able to stream your whole home movie collection over a friends WiFi, out of your phones USB-2-HDMI port, and on to their big screen TV (Albeit at a max 768 bitrate). All over their WiFi. I also kept the framerate at 25, it seemed to play better but that might be source dependent. I set the audio to autosync.
Your settings may very, but mine usually don't get corrupted on a 54g LAN unless that blasted microwave is used...
With my Ultimate Ears and my Vibrant, I literally sat on the couch and watched the first season of "Community" with pretty good results. I got some odd looks when my laughter erupted seemingly out of no where, but it was better than watching HGTV.
The iPhone version of this is called AirServer, if anyone has heard of that.
I hope this helps someone. I actually used the free RDP app in the Market to connect to my PC, start VLC, then browsed through my whole system (all drives seem to be accessible, I am sure there are security concerns to consider).
Once I get my ocular implants and my Bluetooth audio implants I can truly just lay around slack-jawed. One day! I'm not holding my breath...but Ray Kurzweil needs to hurry it up already...
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Also, while I was looking I wanted to point out that "Google Listen" was released for podcasts. It integrates into Google Reader and seems pretty sweet.
Wow! I had no idea... will be checking it right now!
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Nice find. Although, I don't think it is auto converting the video (or On-the-Fly conversion like some people might call it). Vibrant supports mkv/avi natively. I tried your method using the free version which the author stated does NOT support auto conversion and the videos (one avi, one mkv) worked fine but with distorted audio.
The Pro-Version does support auto conversion but that is located under its own separate menu and not "RTSP Streaming". I have not tried the pro version personally, but perhaps someone can buy the pro version to test out how well it works.
epic win. thank you sir, this will certainly make those long trips to the inlaws more bearable.
Perfect
Something that helped me was to make sure the Server Port in VLC, which was a default of '1234' matched up with VLC Stream and Convert, which was default at 554. Once I changed that to 1234 bam, perfect.
Thanks
I was wondering is there any aplication/concept for aplication that makes PC work as a "cloud" or stream video feed to my mobile phone via WLAN ?
I googled and did quick forun search and could only find aplications that allow you to control your PC, not see video feed.
This could be realy cool App, especialy since Onlive doesnt support some of the older (and free) games and isnt even available in every country.
CrazyRemote is able to control the PC at a very high framerate, which allows watching videos and even playing games remotely. If that's not what you're looking for, look for an app to stream from VLC
jacklebott said:
CrazyRemote is able to control the PC at a very high framerate, which allows watching videos and even playing games remotely. If that's not what you're looking for, look for an app to stream from VLC
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Wow, thats what i was looking for
Now i need to figure out is there a way to use Xplay controls (touch pads too)
If not, well thats too bad then.
Not exactly sure what you're trying to do but apart from the aforementioned crazyremote, check out teamviewer and vlc direct. maybe what you're looking for.
OnLive basically can do the functionality if you just want to play games. There is also an upcoming service from them called OnLive Desktop which is a whole Windows 7 desktop environment which allows for high framerate video streaming, flash, browsing, actual MS Office document edition in MS Office, etc.
Also, Nvidia was touting a new tech that would work with Tegra3 devices (not ours, I know, but on topic none-the-less) that would use the GPU to compress and decompress the input and audio/video stream to and from the computer to allow remote game playing or any other function.
Beyond that, framerates and others would depend on the technology, overhead, and speed of connection. You could use RDP (SplashViewer, etc) or whatnot. Most of this is not fully feasible for twitch games or suchnot, but okay for turn-based or some RPGs or whatever.
If all you want is just Video (like you have tons of .MPG, .MP4, etc) and audio streaming over the air (I assume by WLAN you mean cellular data and not WiFi) from your machine, you can try ORB. It takes a little setting up on the server end, but works nicely. There are a dozen little services that can be set up on your computer (especially if it is Linux). You just need to open that particular machine and the app's port to the DMZ (or internet directly) and then use a local app or your browser on your phone/tablet to reach it and view your stuff. If I remember correctly, ORB can even auto-downsize videos on the fly to match closer to your phone's viewing specs, and/or bandwidth.
If you mean WiFi, any DLNA source can work. You can even make your computer a DLNA source if you have Windows Media Center or one of a dozen other apps that can do it. Then you just have to get an app that can pull DLNA sources (I think Mobo can, as well as a number of others). Certain routers can also have a USB stick or USB hard drive plugged into them and use that as storage to present across the network as a DLNA source.