Mobile / Cell Phone Thoughts & Reviews

By Jeb Brilliant
Chief Editor
I had a really nice conversation with Jeff Rice today.  He’s the CEO at DeFi Mobile (disclosure, they provide me with VOIP).  I had some pointed questions I wanted to ask but we started off with what they are up to right now (the good stuff).  First though I should tell you [...]

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Great news.  The TopMobile20 contest is under way and the voting numbers are rising.  Please take a minute and go vote for your TopMobile apps at www.TopMobile20.com.
If you are going to be in Barcelona, Spain during Mobile World Congress please join us at Bel Chica Wednesday night February 18 from 6-8pm for the TopMobile20 awards [...]

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I don’t have all the details just yet, but I got an IM the other night telling me that Truphone (mobile VOIP) is now set up to receive calls on the iPhone.  Previously users could only place calls, which is nice but a little restrictive.  Now having Truphone on your iPhone is like having 2 [...]

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One of my favorite events of all time (and I’ve been to a lot of events) is Mobile Geeks of London and it’s being put on by the coolest cat in all of London, James WhatleyDude Whatley.  MGoL is taking place tomorrow night (Wednesday).  Here is a link to his site with all the deets [...]

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A friend of mine and the voice community at large Carl Ford, along with Scott Kargman are launching something very special with Rich Teharani of TMC.  Drum roll please……. let us welcome the 4G Wireless Evolution Website and conference in Miami next February.  The websites are supposed to launch today and I’m sure there will [...]

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My good friend Idan Gafni pinged me earlier today to let me know some good news.  His firm Ugunduzi was one of the key factor in launching Israels first IVVR based portal and its biggest private portal on channel 10s’ internet department called nana10.
Here is a quote from the article I read at TalkingMobile
IVVR (Interactive [...]

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Wow, I feel like I’ve been all over the place lately but it really hasn’t been much, just CTIA and the ITExpo.  Well I just got done with the ITExpo today and I must say, it was a lot more fun and interesting thanks to the PhoneFusion folks.  Bianca, John, and David were great to [...]

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Congrats Pat, Sean, Florian and all the others on your first year, 100,000 MAXRoam sims and a MILLION dollars saved for people.  I really like your product and can’t wait for revision 2.  See some of you this week in SF.

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I was just reading one of my favorite blogs GigaOM and Stacey Higginbotham compiled the jist of the Q2 US mobile provider results. I find it very interesting that it seems like T-Mobile is just barely doing ok and that Sprint is not burning out. Not surprising AT&T and Verizon are both making [...]

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My good friends over at Truphone have been working very hard lately to bring the very first and as far as I know ONLY iPhone VOIP application (download it from this link, it will open iTunes). I have been a user of Truphone for a few years now it seems like they are always [...]

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