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Is This A Real Working Demo of Android?
Just received a tip from an anonymous source that led me to a blog post that someone at HeyCosmo has found a secret test for the Google Android aka Gphone! Can anyone confirm if this is real?
From their blog post, "During the call, you’re able to talk as if it was a regular phone service, except certain words or phrases will trigger an advertisement. One of my findings during hundreds of test calls with my brother, I’ve said "I’m so #$%^$ Hungry" and then the system just went crazy blasting a Burger King advertisement. Contextual search engine built into live telephone call? is this the future of Google and how we would be annoyed by Google’s search, living and breathing inside our phone? God… Help us!"
Check out here for the application – you enter the two phone numbers, the call is linked up and then you can say certain phrases which "activates" the Android functionality. Somehow this feels like a hoax :)
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK – HAS NOT BEEN TESTED BY CN STAFFERS
Please report back if you give this a try!
Ok.
Android or no android.
I now have a massive craving for burger king.
dude – have you seen the whopper freakout commercials? they are great :)
the blog post is down!
Wow – the app is still there via IP address – I wonder if that was something else?
I found it working here http://69.57.168.29/asr/
this is quite obviously a joke
here is another link that might help http://androidinfo.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-android-dream-phone-gphone.html
Oh Please…But then again, a fairly good prediction of the future of subsidized telephony.
The demo/prototype whatever it’s called is funny, but in fact it does work. I’ve tried calling a few folks about this and they are going nuts!
Referencing post #6 from Fernando… This is or will be the future! A world of subsidized or free phone service in exchange for allowing the service provider to play real-time/contextual ads based on speech recognition technologies and etc. The question is do we want free telephone service in exchange for certain rights or continue paying those baby bells?
So………. Who can you contact to get more info on this?