Cool e-Book Reader

Kindle is Amazon's new wireless reading device. I watched the following video about it and I was impressed about its ease of use. As it works over GSM just like a common mobile phone it can be used almost everywhere! But you will only pay for the content you subscribe, not for the communications! The display also looks sharp and Amazon states that Kindle's battery will last for days which is also good! Kindle is sold out but there will be more available before Christmas! The current selling price is $399 and it is only available at the US. Boring! Sometimes globalization seems to be a slow process when it comes to new product availability... I will not discuss why because this is due to a big list of reasons like carriers, local authorities...

Cool email management app

Xobni - it's inbox backwards - markets itself as "A new look at your email - Effortlessly organize, search, and navigate your Outlook inbox". So Xobni is a downloadable app that integrates with Outlook and has the following list of features/advantages: "Lightning fast email search.", "Email analytics." (interesting!), "Navigate your inbox by people.", "Your personal assistant.", "Phone numbers extracted from emails.", "Quick attachment discovery.", "Hello, threaded conversations."

Xobni is still in beta stage but if you are an Outlook fan you should take a look at it right now. I found Xobni after reading this excellent post about Google, Yahoo and e-mail as THE social environment. Why should I need to send an invitation to connect to someone I regularly send e-mails to? The answers (or connections) are already at my inbox, just waiting for a better use!

Cool Mobile Speech to Text and More II

I forgot to mention email2phone when I published my last post.

"email2phone is a service that converts ordinary text email into phone voice messages. Like ordinary email, the eMail2Phone.net phone voice messages are highly interactive and you can hear, reply-to, save, delete, skip, and send these messages. eMail2Phone.net manages these email-to-phone voice messages in two ways:
Outbound – Email messages that are sent to your phone as high-quality, phone voice messages. Inbound – Email messages that are retrieved as phone voice messages when you dial into the eMail2Phone.net system." as you can read at their website.

email2phone is available in the US, UK and Canada which makes me believe that supports only english speaking voice messages.

Cool Mobile Speech To Text and More

Stuck in traffic? Get things done anyway! How? Try Jott! As I didn't find one sentence that explains what Jott is/does I'll quote this Wikipedia article: "Jott is a voicemail service which allows its users to call a toll-free telephone number and say a small phrase, which is then transcribed to text and sent to themselves or other people through email or SMS.". At their website you can learn what else you can do with Jott: reminders, to do lists and so on! Mobile phone carriers should offer this kind of services to their customers!

Non-Us resident? Perhaps you should ask your carrier for Spinvox apps. They offer speech to text and text to speech apps such as:

• "SpinvoxmyVmail: Get voicemails as text or email: Never miss a message again;
• "SpinmyBlog - Blog from anywhere: When it suits you.";
• "SpinmyMemo: Speak reminders, memos and notes: Straight to your inbox.";
• "SpinmyBroadCast: Send text messages to groups: Simply by speaking.".