This week was a pretty exciting week for a geek like me. Google Voice was rolled out, iPhone 3.0 was announced, and the hardware for our new Zimbra server shipped. Google Voice, the successor to GrandCentral has lots of cool features. So far I like the SMS forwarding and the voicemail transcription is interesting (it sort of works; it seemed to get a phone number pretty well). The call quality seems decent and the ability to call any number from the web site is also quite useful. I discontinued my GrandDialer application as I don’t have any time to work on it. Another developer is working on GV Mobile which looks quite promising.
iPhone 3.0 looks cool and I can’t wait to see it released.
The Zimbra hardware means that my company can start moving towards a real email solution; the hosting provider we use is just awful and quite unreliable despite their claims. In addition, running our own email will reduce external bandwidth and give us more control. The downside is, of course, that if there are problems, I can no longer point the finger!
The disappointment this week is that MIMO Monitors has said that supplies for their 740 have been scarce and don’t know when they’ll be able to get them. I had ordered one to try out. The touchscreen didn’t interest me, but the webcam did; they are having problems getting the touchscreens.
I am loving Google Voice...sorry to hear you aren't developing the iPhone app this time around, but can understand why.