Mobile / Cell Phone Thoughts & Reviews

Are you a business traveler who likes to save a few dollars on roaming fees?  I definitely am.  I’m a self employed consultant who pays all my own bills.  I personally hate paying roaming fees to AT&T.

A few months ago I was asked to review a mobile app for Phone.com, nothing unusual there, this is a mobile oriented blog.  What happened next was amazing, I fell in love with the app I was reviewing.  Phone.com (a client now) created what I have been looking for for years, you can read my thoughts on them here.  But come to find out they have an amazing iPhone app that can do VOIP only if you so desire.  This can be a god send for someone who doesn’t want to pay exorbitant roaming fees or you’re in a dead zone for reception (but have wifi).  In my case, I was in a company apartment in Barcelona a few months ago and wanted to call home to say hi to my wife back in California.  I could have used my AT&T phone and been charged through the roof for roaming.  I wish I would have known about Phone.com back then.  I would have just dialed via Phone.com and it would have been like I was anywhere in the US calling home.  There would have been no international roaming fees, I would have had my regular phone and address book.  A really nice new feature of Phone.com is that you can send and receive text messages from your phone and they show up from your Phone.com number.  So in my case I could text back and forth with my wife at no additional charge.

I can’t wait to travel abroad again and give this a try.  From my personal experience I highly recommend Phone.com and have told many people about them.  Do you use them?  What do you think?

You can reach Phone.com on Twitter at @PhoneDotCom if you have any questions.