For quite time, I start to concern on how people are start to call me. There is a major problem with Sorenson compatible with different video relay service. It’s about the how the caller ID appears toward Sorenson VP200.

You see, when I test it by call from my Z4 to my VP200. You can see how wrong when it appear on the display from the history call listing. What’s wrong? It doesn’t appear as the local number. It’s only ip-address. When anyone, like me on VP200, tried make the redial from either history call listing or contact listing after add my “caller id”. It will dial as Ip-address instead the actual local number. It ends up bringing you to where you would only leave the video-message. It will NOT ringing to my Z4 from iPod or laptop.

What has hassle me is, that I have to remind everybody to make sure they add my Caller ID and then edit to change from Ip-address to my local number. It’s more work for them to do than simple add from the history call listing.

I find it un-compatible between videophone Service Company to videophone Service Company. They’re not well equal when someone miss the call and redial as number instead being different direct. I could blame to Sorenson.

So, I leave the feedback to ZVRS to be aware about my issues. I hope to see every videophone service to be equal on quality on video and satisfactory to call like every telephone Landlines/wireless Company does.

UPDATE: It also affect on Purple P3, too. I gave the feedback to Purple Staff, too.

I’m give the expression on good, bad and ugly side on iPhone 4 with Video Relay Service.

My friend give an example on why the antenna from iPhone 4′s cause the problem with signal being drop few bars. As you can see the diagnostic tester appear the few omh different how it make our natural volt body is.

Simple solution, get case to cover where skin will not make contact against the antenna. Thank neopc007!

However until someone mentions that there is new policy from Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wi-Fi issues over the communications thing. Here is the last paragraph of “WiFi in the Sky” from the fact sheet:

While passengers are welcome to access the web, U.S. airlines offering WiFi service block the use of inflight calling using Skype or similar applications. This is not an FAA restriction; they are simply responding to the overwhelming majority of their customers, who prefer silent communications to the public nature of Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) calls.

That would include our videophone if steward saw us use American Sign Language (ASL) to make awesome communicate. They would probably panic and tell us to turn it off and use Instant Messenger instead.

Man, it would probably hurt the deaf community if there is more commercial airlines start to blocks every video conversation. I guess what someone saying on other weblog. That he or she thinks it’s like terrorist thing. That’s no fun.

Source:
- FAA’s Fact Sheet
- Video Chat on the Plane? Illegal? OK? Legal Gray Area?

Thank chevy57 for bring up the information!

Yet, there is Sprint Relay does offer software compatible for Mac and PC. I start to notice both are similar engineer software on how to use. I haven’t download when ZVRS was first introduce. This time, I was able to download from Sprint Relay’s site. And I found the source on where it comes from. It’s Mirial Softphone“>Mirial Softphone.

Look like Mirial have development, well, smart application that can be use both Mac and PC to make the video conferencing. It makes sense because it can be compatible with 4G wireless. What’s smart thing about Sprint, they would able to sell 4G modem to use for either PC or Mac laptop. It’s match in heaven to use anywhere.

» Source: Mirial – VVoIP solution and HD video conferencing over IP, 3G and IMS

UPDATE 02.23.10 9:29 AM: @williebike CSDVRS/ZVRS provides the technical solution to couple different VRS companies- and Sprint is one of them.

What I like about thing on IP-Relay app, it have friendly keypad just like it give you an experience to call on your own instead use AOL Instant Messaging. Heck, it make quick to dial up. It also went along with current contact on what you have in your iPhone or iPod Touch.

When I dial, it seems obviously understood by identity over my device. Of course, it requires us to register by FCC for E911. It went over the web browser to input my information, it’s base on who you are, your email and your resident address. After done for short minutes and approve. It instantly gives me own 10-digit numbers. That’s quick than I thought.

After finish register, I went back and open IP-Relay and dial someone who is hearing, it being identity without me to log in. I think it’s probably made much easy and hassle-free when I want to make quick call without lose the save on login. It quick acknowledges my device’s ID.

The agent typing is the closer as I experience at online, you don’t even need put GA, because it auto done for us after hit the ENTER. It give the individual line to know which is mine and their. It’s friendly visual. For few minutes of conversation, I find it something to complain that app won’t allow us to change to landscape, because it would make easy to have wide virtual keyboard on display, because the standup is somewhere difficult to typing like I have been told in begin on iPhone’s first introduce.

Anyway, when I want to finish the conversation, I don’t need to typing “SKSK”, you just simple press “Hangup”, it will auto send SKSK to agent. It will asked me if I want to storage the conversation, you would click to copy and then paste to the Note app.

Allover, I think it’s great, there are quite amount of deaf I knew, own iPhone would be happy to have IP-relay app. Did I mention, it’s free?

PRO
• Friendly dial keypad include the special instruction note
• Contact is support
• View on History of dialed calls
• GA auto include after submit the message
• Hang up auto send SKSK

CON
• Landscape virtual keyboard not support
• No font resize
• Not ideal to make call while on move during data loss
• Use copy and paste the conversation to notepad instead its own
• While on call, it needs to protect from have accident press button to return the front

UPDATE 11:58am CST: Seem that IP-Relay app on iTunes have been disappear on search. Only it work when I had to go to website and click, it open iTunes to find right one for me.

UPDATE 10:53pm CST: 10-digit isn’t work, I give that number to hearing to have them call me. That when I open IP-Relay on my iPod Touch. I don’t see incoming pop-up on the dispay. That sucks. Maybe it work on iPhone. Did anyone have it work?

Apple make announcement on new product called iPad. I wonder if there is Closed Caption is available. I took a good look and assure it have simple button to turn subtitle or CC. I hope it’s true as my iPod Touch.

UPDATE: It’s confirm it have closed caption
Source » Support for playback of closed-captioned content See under “Accessibility”

For example, the first panel, you can see well friendly for AccuWeather include 5-days forcast. However, the second panel of The Weather Channel is far better, it comes with animation where the rain would move. So, I decide to keep both applications to keep on my phone.

If you love TweetDeck, you can use Tweed, from Palm Pre, into like TweetDeck. Since WebOS is multi-task, open Tweed three time as you have three app at same time, set one for “home”, one for “@username” and “direct message”. Ta-da, you have “Tweetdeck”. You could also add another one more whatever you like to, such as search “column”!

UPDATE: Damn, Tweed app is no longer in Palm Catalog anymore.

As you know I own Palm Pre as I thought it’s good as I mention my one of blog some time ago. However, I saw the chart that there show the guide on compare for smartphones with multi-touch that found from WIRED online.

I thought of that and I would like to point for deaf who interest to get awesome smartphone that make you rocks dude! So, here is estimate on how much cost we, Deaf would spend within 2 years contract.

*It’s only being estimate without tax, activate charge or coverage fee.

Source for Deaf Plan: at&t TAP for iPhone, Verizon Messaging Plan, Sprint Relay Plan, Google G1 without deaf plan