I am not one that needs to change my ringtone every 2nd day, but there was a time when I would have. If you need a ringtone specifically customized and free, then Phonezoo might just be the website for you.
I wanted the James Bond theme as my ringtone, yes, I am 007 geek. So I found Phonezoo and set up an account.
From the main page, I did a search and found what I was looking for. No problem, sent it to my phone - I was happy.
Now, if I did not find it, Phonezoo offers another service that is clever where you can upload an audio file from your PC and then edit the selection to just take the specific audio clip you want.
You can also locate more than just music, movie quotes abound also. Basically anything audio.
If you are looking to solve your ringtone needs and do not want to pay money for them, Phonezoo handles the task.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Phonezoo - Get Free Ringtones for your Motorola Q
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Yahoo Go! - Yahoo Mail, Flickr and more on your Motorola Q
For those of you that have yahoo as the center of your internet universe, Yahoo Go is a very nice little mobile application.
The application offers all Yahoo brand services such as Mail, Flickr, Search, Maps, Weather and various news feeds. My main mailbox is yahoo mail so this was the reason I added this app as it offers the near full Yahoo mail experience with ability to get to all your mail folders and contacts. There is also a synching feature to synch your yahoo contacts to your phone contacts.
Outside of this, I am not much of a Flickr user (not requiring mobile access at least) but the interface is slick. Yahoo weather is about the only other feature I could see myself using but that is a "once in a blue moon" feature.
I get my news from elsewhere.
Nevertheless, If you are a Yahoo mail user, this is a superior mail interface for your yahoo account than the windows mobile standard one you get with the phone - so it is worth it for that.
Version 3.0 is just out so I will add a new review or update this one soon.
Conduits Pocket Player - Make your Motorola Q into a Full Featured MP3 Player
Conduits offers full function media player called Pocket Player. It handles playing audio files including MP3, videos, podcasts and offers an onboard search and webguide.
For the purposes of this test and review, I am going to emphasize the MP3 player aspect of the application.
The browser screen (shown left) gives you a good idea of how this application is used and has a similar user interface to most MP3 players we know.
Browsing is fast and organized as you would hope.
Once the player screen comes up based upon your selection, all is familiar and pretty obvious with the direction buttons handling most of the work. Up/Down handles volume and Left/Right handles moving through the songs. All these buttons can be remapped to customize the player fully to your needs.
Functionally, this application offers spectacularly more functionality with abilities to add plug-ins, alter appearance via skinning, full graphic equalizer and built in browser to search all manner of media including podcasts. The screenshot page will give you an excellent summary of the scope of this application.
Overall this is a stellar, professional application and fully deserving of the $19.95 price tag (at the time of writing this). There is a 30 Day demo so you can check it out for yourself.
