[pookie1]

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Recently some of the system dumps from the upcoming Motorola Sholes/Tao/Droid hit the Developer community, and they have been trying to piece the puzzle together of what the Motorola Sholes/Tao/Droid is all about. We got our hands on a new app which looks like it will be front and center when the device finally hits the shelves, Motorola Phone Portal.

Those that remember using the Motorola Phone Tools app to hack their Motorola’s back in the day (I’m getting all “Ahmad – Back in the Day” about my v600, v810, and RAZR) will instantly recognize this little gem, but it’s been updated for Android and provides some pretty cool functionality. Basically, Motorola Phone Tools (MPP) serves as an all-in-one phone manager that allows users to easily view, edit, create, delete, and play their contacts, ringtones, photos, wallpaper, and media. The key difference now is, the app is web-based and you log into your phone from directly from your browser! No installing “modems” and drivers on your Windows machine (painful), just fire up the app and press the “Connect with Wi-Fi button. When you press the button, the app prompts you to either turn on Wi-Fi, or connect over USB. For this experiment, I chose Wi-Fi.

MPP lets you add/edit/delete/browse your contacts, photos, bookmarks, browser history, and media in an easy-to-use interface. Playing media directly from the device in the browser worked very well, and the picture viewer/slideshow feature is pretty damn cool. So with MPP you’ll be able to play/show-off your media anywhere from any browser. If Moto adds a Social/Sharing aspect to this, they will have a winner on their hands.

So there you have it kids, a little taste of what’s to come with the Sholes/Tao/Droid. The original Moto Phone Tools was a pretty handy app (when it worked), and the new MPP looks to be just as functional, if not more so. I am sure it will help a lot of users manage their contacts/media/content when it gets released, and the ability to do slideshows and play media from your device directly from your browser is pretty slick. I hope Moto adds more features and functionality to it as time goes on, but this seems like a sign of good things to come. Grab the .apk file below and play away!

This is a cool little phone manager app that works really well with Hero and G1. It's an app that runs a webserver from your phone that you can access over Wifi from any browser on the same network.

It allows you to:
* view/add media on your phone
* view your call log
* read and send sms from the browser
* and more!

Works with any OS - anything with a browser should work. Only works over wifi with Hero, no USB connection is possible it seems.

I replaced as much Motorola branding as I could and replaced it with HTC stuff to make it a nicer experience for HTC fanboys

Attached File(s)

•  HTCPortal.rar (1.01MB)
  Number of downloads: 1616

This post has been edited by pookie1: 22 October 2009 - 01:40 PM

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[bunt83]

This app is awesome!!!!

[Higgsy]

I installed the moto one first, but thought I may as well go with this one, so uninstalled that one and installed this one however still has the moto branding, any ideas?

[pookie1]

Higgsy, on Oct 21 2009, 19:04, said:

I installed the moto one first, but thought I may as well go with this one, so uninstalled that one and installed this one however still has the moto branding, any ideas?

Try clearing your browser cache!

[Higgsy]

doh schoolboy!


Great work

[chuti98]

very useful program easily to use and handy

[Martyn.28]

chuti98, on Oct 21 2009, 21:32, said:

very useful program easily to use and handy

Dont work with Vista 32bit and my Hero running Pauls 2.7.1 rom ......( website time out)

[Higgsy]

Martyn.28, on Oct 22 2009, 13:02, said:

Dont work with Vista 32bit and my Hero running Pauls 2.7.1 rom ......( website time out)

not having any issues with vista x86 or xp x86, I am using google chrome browser. using modaco 2.7.1. possibly some kind of issue with your router - a setting or something?

This post has been edited by Higgsy: 22 October 2009 - 12:17 PM

[simon211175]

When I start this fella, I only have the option of connecting via wifi - which while I'm at work... doesn't work as I don't have a wifi connection I can use. Is anyone seeing the USB option, and if so how?

[Higgsy]

simon211175, on Oct 22 2009, 13:57, said:

When I start this fella, I only have the option of connecting via wifi - which while I'm at work... doesn't work as I don't have a wifi connection I can use. Is anyone seeing the USB option, and if so how?

must admit i have been using wifi, just tried it with usb and doesn't give me the option either, tried connecting the phone in htc sync mode and storage mode just in case. I suspect that maybe it only works over wifi for HTC's and you need some kind of motorola drivers for the computer to see it over usb

[pookie1]

Higgsy, on Oct 22 2009, 13:14, said:

must admit i have been using wifi, just tried it with usb and doesn't give me the option either, tried connecting the phone in htc sync mode and storage mode just in case. I suspect that maybe it only works over wifi for HTC's and you need some kind of motorola drivers for the computer to see it over usb

Yep you're right, itwon't work over usb on a HTC phone

[simon211175]

oh well, I'll give it a go later when I'm at home.

[Wahwah]

Holy crap this is amazing. Thanks for flagging it up, and thanks for modding the skin a little too!

[amie]

Wow!! Just wow! Truly amazing man. Thanks a lot for sharing this!

[whogotdafunk]

Can anybody send this file to my unzipped or unpacked as I'm having trouble opening it up? Any help on the matter is greatly appreciated.

[Chaz_UK]

Working perfectly for me on my iMac!
Thankyou.
http://chazclout.co.uk/heroweb.png

[Nesousx]

Great app!

[PhonePersona]

This is good stuff.
Thanks a lot

[arunshen]

Monster App, great work!

[blackcoffee85]

This app is brilliant, can't believe it's not more widely publicised

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