This Thanksgiving (a US holiday) Truphone is offering free calls to US mobile and land line numbers for 12 hours.

Truphone is sharing the holiday spirit by giving anyone with Truphone the ability to call anywhere in the United States during the day.

What does this mean for you, you ask?  It means that you should download Truphone onto your mobile phone if you don’t already have it and to wild and call everyone on next Thursday, November 26.  Take advantage of Truphone’s kindness and go crazy.

Here’s a link to the page on the Truphone site explaining the promotion.  It also has a drop down to help you calculate what time the promo is running in your area and the ability save the times to your calendar.

Enjoy on Truphone’s dime!

Great news everyone, emoze (a client of mine) is now available on the Nokia N97.  We haven’t exactly had to wait long for them but I am pleased to tell you that it’s now ready for you to download.  I have been using it for a little while now and it’s fantastic.  It’s the best email experience you could ask for on a touch screen phone and you’re not going to compromise anything.  It’s wonderful and even if emoze wasn’t a client of mine I would still use them.

I currently have 3 email addresses being checked, my emoze work email (Exchange via OWA), my Gmail, and my work email from BrilliantExpos.   emoze is tightly integrated into the phone so there’s no funny quirks.

Anyways, if you’re interested in giving emoze a test run watch the video below, it will walk you thorough the very simple steps of installing emoze on a Nokia N97.

To download emoze go to www.emoze.com from your mobile browser.
If you have any questions or need any help with emoze don’t hesitate to contact me
Twitter: @JebBrilliant  and  @emozepushemail
Email: Jeb@emoze.com

As many of you know I am a big mobile email user on my E71 and just to be transparent I do work for emoze, the best push email provider avaialble.  Though that doesn’t mean I don’t use other email services.  I’m on email so much I use both emoze and Nokia Messaging but earlier this week Nokia Messaging went down and stopped working for me for over 24 hours.  It’s not the first time this has happened.  Bear in mind it’s not a paid service and I know I beta test it, I’m very understanding of services that are being built and I really do like Nokia Messaging, so no hard feelings I hope, but….  Once I realized what was going on with Nokia Messaging I decided to start using emoze soley for my important email and just use Nokia Messaging for testing.  Up to this point I had been using both for different email addresses.

Nothing is perfect but emoze is the closest thing out there right now, at least in my case.  I have a long comparison post coming of many of the different email solutions, hold tight and I’ll get it up as soon as I can.

Star Trek ringtones are hot and I just last night I got my hands on another ringtone called Dematerialization and put it right onto my Nokia.  Anyways here it is.  Feel free to download it and use it.

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Just in case you can’t use that link here it is http://www.filedropper.com/startrekringtonedematerialization.

Enjoy

Great news, my information was right, emoze (a client) is launching AOL support today.  That means anyone with an AOL email address will now be able to get their email pushed to their phone for free.

Here’s a portion of their press release.

More than 10 million email users can now go mobile, thanks to the latest emoze data source release for AOL subscribers.  People with an AOL email address can now get their messages and more pushed to their mobile phone, with real-time, secure synchronisation from emoze.
Users experience the ultimate in mobile messaging.  Available on the broadest range of mobile devices, from smartphones to simple phones (Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and more), emoze is easy, affordable and mimics the look and feel of the AOL experience already familiar on a PC.

For those with more than one email address, or avid fans of social communities like Facebook, the emoze PRO version allows users to set up multiple messaging addresses to be delivered to their mobile phone for a nominal monthly charge.  With emoze, even a simple mobile phone can become an individuals communications centre.

Emoze services all kinds of phones from the most basic all the way to the smartest. You can get Emoze on your phone from Emoze.com or navigate your mobile browser to m.emoze.com to download directly to your phone.

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 that DeFi is a Mobile VOIP provider, working over wifi networks with a list of thousands it auto connects to and only costs $40/month for unlimited calls.

Now to let the cat out of the bag, DeFi has their app being reviewed by the iPhone people so they can get it into the iPhone App Store.  This is big for people living in the States.  There are many times more iPhones here then Nokia N and E Series devices, so they hope this means that the general public here in the US will start to download DeFi on to their iPhones and get a taste of Mobile VOIP.  And DeFi will be offering all new accounts a 101 free minutes anytime and to anywhere in the world.  So you can call landlines and mobiles.  You will also be able to always call for free other DeFi users, other VOIP providers, iNum #rs, Google Chat folks, and hopefully soon Skype folks.  So that’s what’s going on at the moment with DeFi.

To get started with DeFi once their iPhone app is available you will just have to download it and give them your mobile # and email address and poof your in business.  This is a great opportunity for couples to talk to each other for hours at a time or companies with globally located employees to talk, all for free.  This is just a stepping stone for folks to then pay the $40/month and get flat rate unlimited calls to anybody on any network, anywhere in the world.  Maybe even disrupt the big telcos by lowering your minute plans with them.

One very interesting and important innovation by DeFi is that they are going to be giving out iNum numbers in the future.  This iNum is a very new concept giving people a # geared toward being used around the world and not being chained to a geographic location.

On a side note, Jeff is currently using a Nokia E51, E71 and iPhone.

Thank you to Jeff Rice for his time and Tim Warner for making this happen.

I’m lucky enough to get to test different products and services sometimes and wanted to share this one with my readers.  Boingo is offering their GoBoingo service for free this weekend.  It can be used on a laptop or a mobile device.

With GoBoingo, you’ll have one-click access to the world’s largest Wi-Fi network, including more than 500 airports and 17,000 hotels. You can even use Boingo around town at participating McDonald’s®, Barnes & Noble, and The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf locations.

So, download GoBoingo (www.boingo.com/freedom), get your free Wi-Fi pass for a limited time and enjoy the holiday, compliments of Boingo.

I’m going to be testing their service for the next few months and reporting back to them and to you on here.  Do post any experiences you have with them on the blog and you can be sure we will let Boingo know.   Just so all the Mac users know they have a great Mac app so don’t worry about being left out.