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Speakout's expanding 3G functionality
July 29, 2011
1:25 pm
mechman600
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I'm using an iPhone 3G on speakout. I was using it to read the news and catch up on emails while sitting by the pool on holidays in Osoyoos. Then I found how much more I can suddenly do on 3G with Speakout.

-YouTube videos are no longer limited to :45 or so. I just watched a 5:00 video.
-Native Gtalk chatting now works fine. No more stupid 3rd party apps or sites required.
-A Google Voice app is now available for iPhone users for free wifi calling for Canadians. It's called Talkatone. And it works great.

All of this seems ridiculous, considering my brother-in-law beside me is not using his Telus phone for fear of exceeding his data plan. Crazy.

July 30, 2011
7:49 am
chimpanzee
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hi, where do you get native gtalk app for iphone ?

July 30, 2011
5:31 pm
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yeah, you are lucky, those apps dont work for me on 3g

July 31, 2011
2:54 pm
mechman600
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There is no actual native Gtalk app. Google has made Gtalk run natively in Safari so you don't need to download an app, much like some of the other Google services. Until now it hasn't worked with speakout's 3G. Now it does, apparently.
Springbok - what phone are you using?

July 31, 2011
3:37 pm
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ah so you mean the mobile site of gmail now works with safari in the google chat area. I thought you were talking about a full featured app that is not running under safari(which doesn't have push as far as i know and i doubt audio chat work as well). Still better than nothing.

August 7, 2011
7:43 am
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mechman600 said:

I'm using an iPhone 3G on speakout. I was using it to read the news and catch up on emails while sitting by the pool on holidays in Osoyoos. Then I found how much more I can suddenly do on 3G with Speakout.

-YouTube videos are no longer limited to :45 or so. I just watched a 5:00 video.
-Native Gtalk chatting now works fine. No more stupid 3rd party apps or sites required.
-A Google Voice app is now available for iPhone users for free wifi calling for Canadians. It's called Talkatone. And it works great.

All of this seems ridiculous, considering my brother-in-law beside me is not using his Telus phone for fear of exceeding his data plan. Crazy.


It's device-specific. I was NEVER limited to 45 seconds on my phone. I use an N95.