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YikeBike ya a la venta (pero nunca la podrás comprar) (Engadget Spanish)

Dec 21st 2010 2:12AM Lol, hay bicicletas mas caras que esas.

Creo que tienen datos demograficos erroneos los escritores, estoy seguro que hay mas de un lector aca que se puede comprar par de YikeBikes.

La gente bota mas dinero en cosas aun mas inutiles.

FrostWire for Android brings quick, slick P2P file sharing to your phone (Download Squad)

Nov 18th 2010 9:43PM If you want to share files with another android phone in front of you, you have to be on the same Wi-Fi network.

If you're all by yourself with no other androids then you'll want to have the application connect to the internet through the Wi-Fi network.

You'll be able to see others only if your Wi-FI router supports UPnP port forwarding or Manual port forwarding.

Once connected you will be able to browse the 25 closest peers and search the files of everybody connected to you and those 25 peers, and those 25 peers, and those 25 peers... theoretically your search could hit millions of phones and results will come back in less than a second if good network conditions apply.

You have absolute control of what's shared and what's not shared, you can also offer files to other users, either publicly on the chatroom, or in the form of a private message.

Very soon we'll offer integration between the desktop version and the android version so you can transfer files to your phone and back without an USB cable.

FrostWire for Android brings quick, slick P2P file sharing to your phone (Download Squad)

Nov 1st 2010 7:59PM Press Release updated!
http://frostwire.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/frostwire-for-android-hits-the-market-paying-is-optional/

FrostWire for Android brings quick, slick P2P file sharing to your phone (Download Squad)

Nov 1st 2010 1:46PM @Sebastian Anthony

Here are several case uses we've envisioned for a long time. However, most of them will only come to fruition if the application's adoption rate is ubiquitous on all android phones.

0. Partying, dinner with friends. How many times have you gone out with friends, now everybody has smartphones with decent cameras but your friends are too lazy to email them or even put the pictures on facebook, maybe you'll see those pictures of that memorable night out 3 months later on facebook if you're lucky. With FrostWire, right after you finish party and you head out to eat a slice of pizza at 3am in the morning, usually every pizza/caffe/restaurant joint has open wi-fi, while you eat, instead of not talking to each other because you're texting or sending email (like it happens in many dinner tables across the world), you could all actually look at the screen of your phone while connecting to each other.

1. Cafe/Bar/Restaurant/Airports - If there's a Wi-Fi network that has a relaxed administration policy (no peer isolation, UDP broadcast enabled, UDP multicast enabled), then peers can connect and share.

When you look at the text box on the Chat, it says "Break the ice". We think the most social device that we have is our phone, but it's mostly thought of as a remote social interaction device (phone calls, email, etc). We thought that maybe we're not the only socially awkward people in the world, hey, if you have a smartphone nowadays probably you're a bit geekish and when you find your self in a room full of hundreds of people (say some tech event, party, etc) You're probably going to be wandering around eating the free food and looking at your phone, tweeting what you're doing.

We think these are great occassions for those of us that are super extroverted online but introverted in real life to connect to others, that's where the FrostWire for Android Chatroom kicks in. It's a great way to break the ice, and I can envision people in bars maybe even hooking up anonymously from their phones before making actual contact, browsing each other's pictures, checking their musical taste, etc.

2. Say there's no Wi-Fi hotspot around, but there's a powerful Android running 2.2. That Android could become the access point for phones around and they could connect. I envision for example people in NYC riding say the front or back cars of the train to see if they can hook up with strangers and exchange files.

3. A hipster Indie Band from Williamsburg making a break during the middle of the show in a bar, and taking out an android phone and saying, "If you guys have FrostWire, go ahead and download these demo tracks on my phone", bam.

4. The amount of videos and pictures I have of my baby daughter outweights the number of other files I have on my phone, I'm sure this is a reality for many parents with Android phones, and you can certainly download a lot of pictures and videos like this from other people. You need a way to share this content in a fast and convenient way, sometimes I dread thinking of looking for the USB cable, mounting, etc. I just want to copy the files to my wife's or my mom's phone, now they can download these pictures en-masse, I don't have to attach them and email them. This also gives you a great level of privacy, not everything should go through the internet, now it can be done at a personal level.

(Currently we're working on a mechanism to transfer files wirelessly from the phone to FrostWire for Desktop, so it'll be a great tool for syncing files wirelessly to your phone. That's another great legal use of both FrostWire for Android and FrostWire for desktop)

5. Podcasts. One thing people tend to carry on their mobile mp3 playback device is podcasts, do a search for podcast and you'll find tons of great podcasts, we think this is a a great legal use of p2p technology and it helps content creators save bandwidth. (We're working on tools to help podcasters distribute their podcasts without paying a dime in bandwidth as well)

As for the illegal use, we condemn illegal downloading, we think that in fact there's way more free content out there that needs to be discovered (count how many indie bands are in myspace, vs popular signed artists..., being popular on p2p is not easy either but we try to expose as much great content as possible), and that's why we have initiatives like FrostClick.com and promotions of Creative Contents material on FrostWire for desktop.

Also, I wanted to thank you for this review, we think it's actually the best so far (other than the conclusion on piracy, we're trying to get away from that bad shadow ever since we started the FrostWire project, we think P2P, as technologies like the tape, VHS, and CDs, has to mature and we all need to start looking at it from other perspectives than just P2P = Piracy, file sharing is only the beginning of what p2p can do)

Cheers

FrostWire for Android brings quick, slick P2P file sharing to your phone (Download Squad)

Nov 1st 2010 11:34AM The application was built initially to share files locally on a Wi-Fi network. There's plenty of legal use in this respect. Take pictures, video and music from your phone and transfer it to a tablet, or your Google TV. Teachers and Students sharing files in campus, go to a conference and the speaker can share the powerpoint slides with the audience, and so on.

The application is not meant to run over 2G or 3G, it's stated clearly on the market, and the team has been very adamant about this since the start of the project, why? 1) Carrier Rules 2) Connections are too slow and unreliable and this would only hurt the network.

Maybe when 4G support is widely available and the carriers are ok with p2p FrostWire for Android will enable connectivity outside Wi-Fi.

Team FrostWire

Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26 (Download Squad)

Aug 18th 2010 7:15PM "Google won't want to disappoint its early adopters. "
Unlike Apple that somehow manages to convince it's worshipers to buy crap prototypes.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 announced, we go hands-on (Engadget)

Nov 3rd 2009 6:49PM Next time you should record the Wrap up video on place thats more Noisy

iPhone MMS is now live! (Engadget)

Sep 26th 2009 8:25AM So what are the limitations, can you send mp3s? Will now AT&T become a music sharing network via MMS?

2G iPod touch to have Bluetooth capability unlocked by iPhone OS 3.0 (Engadget)

Mar 17th 2009 3:21PM The update sounds great and all, but you're going to charge for this update?

C'mon you're abusing your customer base, people must be brainwashed or something

Android FTW

In all seriousness and excuse me for the language

Motherfuckers

iPhone OS 3.0 is coming, preview on March 17th (Engadget)

Mar 12th 2009 3:16PM Crossing fingers that the SDK will have alternatives like Java or Python.