The first thing that I did after we purchased our N80 for extending wwigo onto S60 3rd edition devices was to install and check out Fring on it. I had used fring before when Veer and I did test calls on it using his 6630 with a GPRS connection on the one end and gtalk on the other end which worked fine and we were able to listen to each other with very little channel disturbance. Eversince I was eagerly waiting to test it out on a Wifi connection and the experience of a fring call on a N80 phone to my friend in US on skype was just marvelous. It has a very neat and clean UI, works on so many protocols (also supports SIP) and the perceptible audio quality was much better than a normal mobile phone call. Ever since it has been one of my favourite Series 60 application. I recently noticed that Fring had started an India blog and moreover Alon of Fring thinks our application wwigo is very handy which is pretty cool
Thanks for all the users who have downloaded our software and found it quite useful. We are glad to reach close to 15000 downloads after one month of beta release. Thanks to Antony Pranata for selecting wwigo as a featured freeware of the month.
For those who want to check out the video demo of wwigo can have a look at Rajan’s interview with CNBC’s Tech2 show.
WWIGO users can refer to wwigo forum for any common discussion/issues. Any specific queries regarding wwigo can be posted here.
We are yet to add support for IVT Bluetooth. Stay tuned for more updates coming up.
We are happy to see very good response to wwigo. In less than 2 weeks more than 5500 downloads happened from users across more than 100 countries. Babelfish is coming in very handy for us to understand what our users have to say about our software Thanks to all the encouraging words !
We are happy to announce that early this week we released wwigo public beta :). It is available for download for free in our website. Thanks to all our supporters and alpha users in helping us make this release happen.
In this release we have added support for the following new features.
Support for major series 60 3rd edition phones such as N73, N80, N93, E70, E61i & N95
Support for Toshiba bluetooth stack.
Increased frame rate rate.
Increased video quality.
Bug fixes
Would love to hear from you if you have any comments and feedback. Please do not hestitate to let us know if you run into any issues.
Thanks to the coverage from CNN-IBN and CNBC last week we are getting a huge surge in the number of users visiting us. We are very excited to know this and welcome you all. As mentioned previously please sign up here as the alpha is closed currently. We will send an update on the next release.
Thanks so much to all those who signed up for wwigo alpha and gave great feedback. We have closed alpha now and hence won’t be recieving new signups for alpha. However if you would like to be updated about the future releases of wwigo then do please sign up for it.
Took some time to send pending alpha signups, had added patches to fix the bluetooth connectivity problem that was recurrent feedback from the previous users. So all those who signed up so far should have recieved an download link by now. If you signed up and did not recieved a download link, let me know ( rajan AT motvik DOT com)
Namitha from Business world did a quick note on Motvik in the deal tracker section in this week’s edition(19th Mar). It can be viewed at page number 12-13 on the print version of the magazine, the same is also reproduced below.
Birth: September 2006 Location: Bangalore Founders:M. Thiyagarajan and K.C. Ramu, T.V.S. Deepak and P. Naveen Space: Mobile technology Buzz: Motvik will go live with its first product, WWIGO (Webcam Where I Go), by end-March.
WWIGO converts a bluetooth enabled cameraphone into a webcam, thus offering users limited mobility around the PC as opposed to a fixed webcam.
The product is targeted at video-based applications such as video chat on Skype or direct uploading on YouTube.
“Instead of sitting in front of the webcam, you can walk around with the cameraphone, shoot in the next room and still stream video live onto your PC,” explains Thiyagarajan.
The feedback has been slowly trickling and it ranged from “wow it works like a charm” to “I can’t use it because I can’t get my COM port setup”. One of the key things that we are focussing on right now is to ease the installation and setup process and make it extremely simple. Also we have sent invites to more users who had signed up , if you registered with us and did not recieve a download link so far then do let me know ( rajan AT motvik DOT com)
We met Kalpana a few hours ago and gave a quick demo of ‘wwigo’ to her. In our chat Kalpana quizzes us on what ‘wwigo’ is and what it can do, Ramu passionately explains on how ‘wwigo’ makes every application (Youtube, Skype, Yahoo, Movie Maker etc) in the PC think that a cameraphone is a webcam while I do an live upload of the the chat using youtube’s ‘Quick Upload‘ feature.
Here is the video
and yes we are working on bettering the quality of the video
