GUAVA - Is highly experimental software. Not really, but that makes it sound scary huh? Here's some facts about GUAVA:
- The name is an acronym for GoogleVoice Unauthorized Android Voice Application. You see that "unauthorized" part? This means Google didn't write it and probably doesn't even know it exists so don't complain to them.
- It's BETA software. Well everything is called beta now so I guess Alpha is the new Beta. It's alpha software then which means it could crash or if you poke a bunch of buttons at once it could set your phone on fire.
- GUAVA lets you make free calls to any US number using your Google Voice and Gizmo5 account.
- GUAVA lets you receive calls to your Google Voice number from wherever you have a net connection.
- GUAVA lets you send SMS messages to US phones.
- GUAVA lets you read incoming messages (via the browser)
- GUAVA works fine without a SIM card in fact that's how it was tested.
- You can get GUAVA software from www.gizmo5.com/guava
- This version only works on Android phones
This blog is all about how to have a phone without paying a phone company big dollars. Feel free to add your comments. A SIM card is a small white chip which is in your phone and holds your identity. Some phones let you take it out and others do not. But carriers usually charge a hefty fee for a SIM card when calls should be as cheap as emails. noSIMcard.com is designed to help you minimize the dollars going to phone companies.
Betreff: From Sipdroid Open Source Project...
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Organisation: i-p-tel GmbH
An: press@gizmo5inc.com
Dear sirs,
you published "Guava" in violation of the GNU public license.
Furthermore you removed the copyright notice. This is violating copyright laws.
This is highly abominable because you're stealing intellectual property. Please stop immediately. We will inform legal authorities.
Pascal,
ReplyDeleteThe copyright notice is not removed. Did you actually try the software? Once installed click the Menu button then select ABOUT. Here you will see:
Guava is open source software. It is based on SIPdroid: http://sipdroid.org
Then below that there is a big long list of Copyright authors including:
Sipdroid
Hughes
Android
Luca Veltri
We added Gizmo5 to the list of authors since we've done quite a bit of work with the code.
Also the source code is available at: gizmo5.com/guava.tgz
I'm assuming this is Pascal, CEO of PBXes.org? I believe your company had some role in creating SIPdroid?
I tried contacting your firm in advance, but there are no email addresses on your website that I could find. So I tried sending email to pascal@pbxes.org which bounced. Then I tried submitting a trouble ticket and your signup script appears to be broken so no new users can signup and put in a ticket or post to your forum. So it's difficult to contact your firm.
You may not know this but I'm a huge backer of open source software. I've spent millions of dollars of my own money and millions through my companies to sponsor open source projects. This includes Linux, mysql, Firefox and Nvu.
If you use Firefox when it does the little red underlining when you misspell a word - that's code I paid for and made open source as one tiny example.
So I'm a big believer in open source.
So when you say free calls to any US number, does that include Hawaii? Google Voice charges .02 per minute. Does the calls have to be made on wifi only? Or can you use 3g like sipdroid?
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