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Beating The High Cost of Roaming By Andy Abramson

July 30th, 2010 · No Comments

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My friend Andy Abramson just yesterday posted “Staying Connected- Beating The High Cost of Roaming http://ow.ly/18lHO6“.  I wanted to bring any attention I could to his article because it highlights one of my favorite companies, Truphone.  I’ve been an advocate of theirs for many years now [...]

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Tags: Mobile · Thoughts · Travel · Uncategorized

Truphones Latest Announcements

January 26th, 2010 · No Comments

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I’ve been wanting to blog about some Truphone (one of my favorite services) news for days now and I’m finally getting to all the news.  Instead of writing 3 different posts I’m just going to condense it down to one short post.  Let’s get to [...]

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Tags: Announcement · Mobile · Travel · Uncategorized

Expanding on Ewan’s Cannes Doctrine

December 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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I’ve been reading Ewan MacLeod’s blogs for many years now.  I started back when MIR was SMSTextNews and was inspired by Ewan to write my own blog and endevour into the mobile industry.  I went from an observer to someone involved and participating, from hosting [...]

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Tags: Mobile · Nokia · Rant · Tech · Thoughts

Truphone offers free calls to the USA on Thanksgiving

November 19th, 2009 · 3 Comments

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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 [...]

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Tags: Announcement · Mobile · Tech

What does Skype buying Gizmo Project mean for Truphone and the next Billion

November 3rd, 2009 · 3 Comments

What does it mean if Skype buys Gizmo Project? This is a huge deal for the VOIP industry.  It is a big deal for something that keeps going thorough my mind “The next Billion” (meaning the next billion people to get mobile phones and get on the mobile web).  The first thing that came to [...]

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Nokia N900, initial thoughts

October 13th, 2009 · No Comments

I am one lucky guy, I know that, I get to attend the premier events around the world when it comes to mobile technology and I get to play with the latest and greatest devices.  Sometimes devices I’m not at liberty to talk about for months.  So when I was at CTIA last week in [...]

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Tags: Mobile · Nokia · Review · Tech

Nokia E72 where are you???

October 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments

So I used the E75 for a while then went back to my trusty E71 and back and forth and back and forth for weeks now.  I love the format of my E71 but like the menu and speed of the E75.  Plus the E75 has US 3G and my E71 doesn’t.
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Tags: Mobile · Nokia · Rant · emoze

Back to the Nokia E75 I go

September 17th, 2009 · 5 Comments

So as all of my readers know I’m a hard core Nokia E71 fanboy.  I’ve been infatuated with the E71 since I first heard about it roughly 2 years ago.  Now I’m impatiently waiting for the much anticipated E72 but I decided to whip out the E75 I was graciously lent for review and have [...]

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Tags: Mobile · Review · S60 · Tech · emoze

Truphone is still the top dog in mVOIP

September 4th, 2009 · 8 Comments

I got to spend some time with Karl Good of Truphone over the past 2 days at the ITExpo and have been reminded how much I like the best mobile VOIP service available today.  Karl gave me an ultra secret briefing, please don’t ask me what we chatted about, I won’t tell you.  No amount [...]

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Tags: Interview · Nokia · S60 · Tech · Travel

Apps I loaded on E71

July 13th, 2009 · 3 Comments

I left on vacation a few days back, as I write this I’m in the passenger seat of a giant 12 passenger Ford F350 van.  This thing is a monster but I like it. I’ve been preparing my electronic gear bag (I like to call it my toy bag) and I never know exactly what [...]

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Tags: Mobile · Mobile Messaging · Nokia · S60 · Tech · Travel · emoze