Until Logitech ventured with Dinovo Mini Media Remote, which controls most knew were similar to those universal remote controls or traditional. But the inclusion of a real QWERTY keyboard was necessary but not many manufacturers have been encouraged by it.

Lenovo Multimedia Remote is the latest to come to market, and we like. Its design is unique, as other teams in this style, the mouse is included. In the case of Lenovo model, not opting for a trackpad, which is usually normal, but ball control (trackball), which we feel more uncomfortable. With this incorporation have been different shape but whether what we take with one hand as with two, a design more like a command console or the virtual keyboard of a mobile phone landscape in principle are better solutions.

The keys look very comfortable to use, with a design reminiscent of the Nokia N900, whose keyboard is the most accomplished of the market for QWERTY. Then there are also multimedia shortcut keys.

This Lenovo Multimedia Remote has a radius of 10 meters, operates in the 2.4 GHz band and is designed to be used with Windows media centers. If you want it, costs 60 dollars, a price similar to sets of wireless keyboards and mice and that if you have a media center in the living room we would like to afford.

According to statements by Bradley Horowitz, senior manager of product management at Google, in 2010 they will work hard to break the thin line between mobile phones and the Internet, and Google Voice will be the workhorse.

The recent acquisition by Google of Gizmo5, a developer of software that enables Internet-based calls on mobile phones and computers, based on open standards (SIP), does nothing but give importance to this line of work.

Outside the search engine company have known that Telefonica has been done with Jajah, a leading provider of VoIP, and BT with the software developer Ribbit, showing that all are working on making voice calls in an application, and it seems certain that the other operators will this step inevitable.

Google Voice currently has 1.4 million users, a ridiculous figure when compared to Skype’s 500 million worldwide, a difference in part due to a significant difference between the two services: Google Voice needs to have an associated phone by Carrier account for performance.

Google Voice, is preparing something importanteAquí is Gizmo5 comes into play, as it will allow the company to make Google Voice search in a service like Skype to operate without operators involved, and let them communicate from the PC or the phone mobile internet.

Google also committed to decorate the service with features that they can hardly be offered by a traditional form of communication, such as the integration of network contacts, a mailbox for calls, transcribing them and reading texts. And following the ideas of work of the company, trying to get everything you can end up in the cloud.
The rates of the operators are with Google Voice

The changes can not happen from one day to another, but it strikes me that you can begin to end the limitations of flat rates is that in the U.S. and is already talking about the rate of 500 minutes from T-Mobile and the Nexus One: What would happen if at the end of those minutes go to run Google Voice and non-tariff operator other communications?.

Google Voice, is preparing something importanteLa response does not have, and what we said do not think that poses a viable alternative to conventional calls, but the truth is that there are people who are making calls from your mobile phone and the combination Gizmo5 Google Voice in the U.S., using a phone from an operator only to validate the service.

It seems clear that any move in this direction that Google will continue to swell his list of “friends”, but this list is already an interesting topic for another article.