Yahoo is showing a little Apple love today, launching not one but two free search apps in Apple’s app store today. Yahoo’s basic Search app tries to bring an enhanced version of Yahoo Search to the iPhone with plenty of bells and whistles, while Yahoo’s Sketch-a-Search iPhone app is aimed towards discovering local restaurants

Yahoo’s Search app includes the ability to refine results based on your location. The app will also autosuggest local keywords when you type a query into the search box. The app delivers local content, with photos, ratings, phone numbers and more from Yahoo Local, Yelp and Citysearch. And the app includes voice search so you can speak your query. To clear a query, you shake your phone.

Yahoo’s Sketch-a-Search is a little more of a unique offering. To conduct a search, you use your finger to draw a circle or boundary on your phone’s map to look up businesses within that location. The app defaults to the users’ current location, and also allows people to search for a specific city, or area. The app initially will only deliver results for restaurants in given areas but will launch other local categories in the near future. Within the results, you can refine restaurants by cuisine, ambiance, and star rating. You can click on restaurants to read reviews, browse photos, get directions, or make a phone call from within the app. It’s similar in some ways to the functionality of Yelp or CitySearch.

Yahoo is definitely late in the game to launch a search app in the App Store. The much younger Microsoft Bing launched a search iPhone app in December. Yahoo Search on the web has been steadily losing marketshare since Bing arrived on the search scene. And with the search deal with Microsoft finally approved, Yahoo search will go through another transition. Microsoft will take over Yahoo’s organic and paid search results and blend those resources into Bing. Yahoo will continue to control the front-end UI of search on Yahoo’s sites, and consumers will continue to see and be able to use the Yahoo search engine.

Function declaration:

• It will show the telephone number when incoming telegram (OLED display)
• It will vibrate when incoming telegram
• Distant range cut hint (the bracelet will vibrate 5 seconds when the cellphone was lost or wire broken by unnormal
      
  obstruction.)
• Receive and refuse a call function
• Matching , connecting and cutting state display
• Refuse and handfree state display
• Power on and off state display
• Low power state display
• Charging state display

  Handling instruction:

• Press the 5 seconds when the bracelet is power off for a long time , it will show “Power On “on LCD scren ,it indicates
      
  that power on . Continue to push , when it shows Pairingit indicates that the bracelet is matching , so that the
      
  cellphone goes into searching bluetooth , then the cellphone will show “BRACELET”, then according to the hint and
      
  input the matched number “0000″.If match successfully the LCD screen will show “CONNECTED”, if fail it will show that  
     
  “Pair FAIL5 “,seconds later , it will show that “No Connect”.
• Press the 3 seconds when the bracelet is power off , the LCD screen will show OWER ON”, and then it will show 
      
  “CONNECTING”, it indicates that it is connecting the last cellphone. If match successfully the LCD screen will show 
      
  “CONNECTED”, if fail it will show that “Pair FAIL”,5 seconds later , it will show that “No Connect”.
• In the “No Connect” state , press the power on match buttom , it will connect the cellphone which connected last time .
• The LCD screen will show “LINR LOSS” when wire broken , then show “No Connect” in 5 seconds .
• when incoming telepram , press the bluetooth buttom once time , it indicates that you refuse the call , and the screen
      
  will show “CAII REJECTED” , then show “Connected” in 5 seconds .
• When incoming telepram , the bracelet will vibrate twice , interval 3 seconds ; the telephone number will keep for 15
      
  seconds when you don’treceive or refuse a call , then the LCD screen show “Connected”.
• When incoming telepram , pressing the bluetooth buttom several seconds indicate receiving the call , at this moment the
       
  LCD screen shows “CALL ACCEPTED”, then shows”Connected”in 5 seconds .
• In standby state , push the buttom several seconds , the LCD shows “POWER OFF” , it indicates power off .
• In standby state , if the battery was used up it will show”LOW BATTERY” .
• In power off state, bracelet connects power , the screen shows”CHARGER IN”in 5 seconds, when finishing Charging ,
      
  the screen will show “CHARGE OK” , cut of adapter the screen shows”CHARGER OUT”
• “CHARGE ERROR” indicate the bracelet can’t charge normally .

  About the button operation instruction:

• Shout press : press the button immediately then release
• Long press : press the button for 3 seconds then release
• Super long press : press the button for 5 seconds then release

  state display instruction:

• POWER ON: start the machine
• POWER OFF :stop the machine
• PAIRING: waiting to match
• Low power state display
• CAII REJECTED: refuse a call
• CALL ACCEPTED: aswering a call
• LOW BATTERY: power is use up

  Techical target :

• Compatible bluetooth 2.0 standard
• Class 2 stardard(10 meters)
• Meet bluetooth handfree standard(Hands-free Profile)V0.96
• Work temperature range : -20+75
• Store temperature range : -40+85
• Effective distance 5-10M
• Auto save energy mode
• Support low power consumption work mode / high speed work mode
• Security Certificate , data encryption

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