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VoIP on iPhone via Phone.com great for cutting roaming rates

July 20th, 2010 · No Comments

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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 [...]

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Tags: Mobile · Tech · Travel · Uncategorized

emoze provides rock solid push email

August 2nd, 2009 · 4 Comments

So as many of my readers know emoze is a client of mine and I tend to write about them a great deal.  We are going to be launching an emoze blog very soon so there will be a great deal less posting about emoze on here.  This post is all about emoze but it’s [...]

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Tags: Mobile Messaging · Nokia · Thoughts · emoze

Rim is getting PWND but they did it to themselves

July 29th, 2009 · No Comments

Blackberry is in trouble, I mean deep trouble.  The trend lately has been for anyone and everyone to go out and pick up a smart phone when it’s time for a new phone.  People are no longer just getting ultra basic phones and only making calls and sending sms on them.  The masses want more [...]

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Tags: Mobile Messaging · Nokia · Thoughts · emoze

$10/month unlimited internet on AT&T

June 30th, 2009 · 25 Comments

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AT&T has a secret plan that most people don’t know about and are never offered publicly as far as I know.  Most people pay $15/month for unlimited internet with a dumb phone and $30/month for internet with a smart phone like a Nokia E71x or [...]

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Tags: Mobile · emoze

Truphone adds more Nokias to it’s line up

June 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Truphone the leader in mobile VOIP is expanding it’s line up to include 11 more Nokia handsets.
They include:
N96
N78
N85 (also VoIP enabled)
N79 (also VoIP enabled)
5630 (also VoIP enabled)
5800
5320
6210
6220
6650
E63
I’m a huge fan and extensive user of Truphone and think the world of the company and what they have done for mobile VOIP.  They have fought the big [...]

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Tags: Announcement · Mobile · Nokia · Tech

App stores will keep us going for a while

June 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Mobile phone and brand app stores have reinvigorated the internet and it looks like a small version of what it was before the bubble burst.  I was just reading Ewan Macleod come back story (great guy by the way) and I’m thinking about his Mobile Industry Developers TV and I’m thinking, it’s back to the [...]

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Tags: Mobile · Tech · Thoughts

emoze rumored on N97 and iPhone

May 31st, 2009 · 2 Comments

I have heard two interesting rumors floating around the internet about emoze and I’d like to happily address them.
The first is that there’s going to be an emoze app for the Nokia N97.  That is absolutely True.  We can publicly say that yes we are currently working on getting emoze migrated over to the N97 [...]

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Tags: Mobile · Nokia · Tech · emoze

Congrats to Nimbuzz

March 20th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: Announcement · Mobile

Interview with Jeff Rice CEO at DeFi Mobile

January 27th, 2009 · 4 Comments

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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Tags: Announcement · Interview · Mobile · Nokia

Truphone now allows incoming calls on iPhone

December 13th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Announcement · Nokia · S60