VoIP over 3G - finally?

With Google's acquisition of Gizmo5 are we ready to enter the world of VoIP over 3G? Well certainly it would offer great benefits to users in terms of cheaper calls, more powerful features and flexibility

But the question is - are the current 3G networks ready for VoIP! can they deliver the consistently low latency and throughput and constant signal to allow people to move to VoIP over 3G?

We have been running VoIP over 3G on the Android platform for months here in Australia and we can tell you that given a good network connection it works great.

However during our recent trip to San Francisco we really feel that the networks in the USA are not ready for any mass deployment. We found high latency, and signal drops that would cause havoc for VoIP calls.

We then posted a question on our Twitter feed and asked people whether they felt the networks were ready for VoIP over 3G and the feedback we got was NO WAY!

Users do not believe that their carriers are ready in most countries worldwide.

So does that mean VoIP over 3G is a 2011 technology?

Probably not - with the right circumstances, and the continued proliferation of WiFi in major cities, adding VoIP options to callback services like our BigTinCan Connect will make a lot of sense and help people to save lots of money and be more productive. So we can say that we are throwing our hat into the ring for VoIP over 3G integrated to BTC Connect. Look for that early 2010.

BlackBerry Dev Con Results

Well the conference is over for 2009 - and we must say that it was a fantastic event. We are now back home trying to digest the key things and how we can implement them.

BlackBerry Flow - we think that is the key marketing message and key development philosophy that will pervade development on the BlackBerry platform into 2010.

Well, its kind of interesting that we launched our BOPA strategy at the same time that RIM introduce BlackBerry Flow - it shows that anybody thinking about development and customer benefit on BlackBerry is working towards the same principles.

The question now is what to do next: - we think its all about integrating telco services that overlay ontop of the existing carrier networks

We have some great plans for that, and hope to be able to keep you all informed as we develop those plans for 2010

Wednesday 12th November 2009 27,000 downloads

Wow its kind of hard to believe but when we looked at the stats for downloads for yesterday we found that we had over 27,000 downloads of our range of apps across iPhone, BlackBerry and Android apps - I just wanted to thank everybody for taking your valuable time to try our products.

We are constantly trying to update and improve what we do and we have some really great plans for our range of services for 2010 - and we hope to incorprate in a number of features that you have been asking for.

A good example is things like the Missed Call Reminder, and MyColor in BuzzMe which came directly from your input.

So thanks again and we would love to hear from you at support@bigtincan.com about what we can do to make our apps and services even better.

Launch of BOPA

Today at the BlackBerry Dev Con we launched BOPA - BuzzMe OPEN Plugin Architecture - this is an exciting development that allows 3rd parties access to BuzzMe and the ability to control alerting using all the features of BuzzMe v3.0 planned for early next year

Check out the Press Release here

We would love your feedback

New BigTinCan Website

we are just about to publish our new website - its been designed to allow us to show people all the interesting things that we do in only a few seconds - its hard to communicate all the stuff that we do in simple way - so we have put together what we think will work

its a work in progress though and we are planning lots of changes already - even before we put it up

but thanks for your patience with our old site - we think the new site will be a breath of fresh air for everybody

BlackBerry Dev Con Update

very interesting day at the Dev Con - big announcements about extra tools and APIs for developers to use - a very interesting API set called Locate that will add easy to use call tower based location services - not as accurate as GPS but low battery use and it works inside - yeah!

Lots of info on our Facebook page

We have had a Facebook page for a while which has always been a great place for us to share info and news about what we are dong - well this Blog is going to be a compliment for that. So we will do our best to update both the Blog and Facebook sites ! we would love to know which one you prefer?

BlackBerry Dev Con 2009

The BigTinCan team is at the BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco (http://www.blackberrydeveloperconference.com) this week - its going to be a great event - we will be launching our BOPA strategy (look for us in the crazy tshirts)