Mobile / Cell Phone Thoughts & Reviews

+ A little bird told me that in approximately a month Emoze will start to support what was once the most popular email service in the world and is still ridiculously popular.  Along with Gmail, Hotmail, Facebook Messages, most work email, hosted email, and ISP email, AOL will be getting Emozed.  This means [...]

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+ =  Two of my favorite companies and two I have evangelized around the world, literally, have hooked up.  They got together and made a baby called QikRoam.  It is the best of MaxRoam, an internationally roaming sim card providing low price minutes and data around the world and Qik, instantly uploaded video [...]

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Truphone one of my favorite mobile VOIP providers has announced 2 new flat rate plans.  I have been waiting for this kind of thing for over a year and maybe 2 years now.  They have a plan called TruUnlimited for Landlines at $14.40/month and it includes unlimited calls to landlines in 38 countries and unlimited [...]

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The folks over at Cubic Telecom have launched the newest interation of their MaxRoam sim card called V5.  It builds on all the money saving MaxRoam offered before with

70%-80% savingson your roaming bill
Global voice/data coverage on one sim
No monthly daily connection charges
Voice works in 213 countries
Data works in 137 countries

This is a huge accomplishment for [...]

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My friends over at Nimbuzz announced some exciting news yesterday.  They have finally updated their app and it now includes VOIP.
They are focused on bridging the 3G VoIP gap on the iPhone – anywhere.
Here are some highlight of the new app.
>With free Wi-Fi calls to instant messaging buddies already available, we added a full dial-pad, [...]

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I have been a user of GrandCentral for a few years now and I’ve always been happy with the service.  It has always been adequate for me to use as my business number but it has always lacked a few features.  Well As of 2 days ago GrandCentral has been transformed and renamed Google Voice. [...]

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My good friend Cian over at GoMo News wrote about NeuStar during Mobile World Congress and I’m just reading about it now.  I’m really excited because of what they are doing.  NeuStar is incorporating presence into the Telecom Italia (TIM) service.  In your handsets phone book they will show you how your contact wants to [...]

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Wow, what a whirl wind first day of Mobile World Congress.  Nokia had a few big announcements today.  One of the big announcements is that they are going to be launching 2 new E Series handsets, the E55 and E75.  Take a look at the pics.
What I think is the more interesting announcement though a [...]

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So I’m part of Twestival LA now.  We’re a small group putting together a fund raiser for Charity:Water.  They help in different ways, to get people in 3rd world countries drinking clean water. @iJustine made a moving video and many others are doing all they can to help raise awareness of the event and the [...]

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GoMo News is again hosting one of their famous Blenders.  This one will take place Wednesday February 18 at BelChica in Barcelona, during Mobile World Congress. TopMobile20 will be holding the awards ceremony at the beginning of the GoMo party, so please make sure to stop by early and RSVP here.

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