Truphone for Nokia update

Below is a quick message to our Nokia app users from Karl Good, our Director of Applications:

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The Truphone for Nokia mobile app is great for making free calls to other Truphone users connected to Wi-Fi, as well as reliable, great quality, low cost calls over the internet, even without being connected to Wi-Fi. It is also currently the only Truphone application that you can send text messages from. 

However, I know that there are a couple of features in our other Truphone applications, such as instant messaging, that are not currently available on our Nokia applications, and that not all Nokia devices are currently fully supported (Wi-Fi plus out of Wi-Fi calls). 

Our keen Nokia app users have certainly been vocal in letting us know how much they would appreciate these features/new devices being added! 

Our main focus for now is to bring all of our applications up to the same level, with the same great features. This covers all of our applications, including Nokia. 

At the same to we are developing brand new applications (such as our brand new iPad app, plus another top secret one that launches soon), so that we can give more and more people the opportunity to join the Truphone family. So there is a lot to be done! 

We have a small team doing a lot of big things, and hope that you can understand that we can't do everything at once. Improving our Nokia app is definitely on our list though!

Mobile News write-up on Truphone

There was an interesting article about European roaming rates and Truphone Local Anywhere yesterday in Mobile News, which called Truphone the 'new-model traveller MVNO' and said that our service was 'allowing customers to operate freely abroad without watching their telephony spend'.

Read the article online here. 

Win a weekend getaway to New York

We think New York is one of those places you need to visit at least once in your life.

The Statue of Liberty, Central Park, Empire State Building, and so much more are waiting for anyone lucky enough to make it to the city that never sleeps.

Which is why we have teamed up with lastminute.com to offer you five chances to win a weekend getaway to New York.

Each prize is for two people and includes all flights, transfers and three nights in a 3 star hotel.

Entry is free, and open to all UK residents* - head to the competition page to enter now.

Good luck!

*Sorry to everyone who doesn't live in the UK - we know how you feel (Truphone staff can't enter either!)

Experiencing Truphone for real!

There is nothing better as a salesperson than experiencing the product you are selling first hand, and in the last couple of weeks I have seen the benefits of Truphone Local Anywhere in my life outside work. I’m not sure it’s going to be the example we use on our future media packs, but nevertheless it shows how beneficial our product can be to our customers!

My girlfriend is a US citizen working over here in the UK for a few years, and a couple of weekends back she was taken to A&E with horrific pain in her head and stiffness in her neck. As you can imagine, any head related injuries are taken extremely seriously so she ended up spending 12 days in the care of the NHS. This would be a fairly uncomfortable experience for anyone, but when you’re several thousand miles from family and friends it is even more so. She has a mobile phone on a UK network, however international phone calls to and from the US can prove costly, even in an emergency!

 

Fortunately she had been trying out the Truphone Local Anywhere service, complete with US local rates and a Massachusetts Connecticut phone number, so her worried parents and close family and friends were able to call her whenever they needed to, for the same price as making a phone call to someone in their street. And whenever she had an update from the doctors, she was able to call home and put minds at rest, again, for the same price as calling me or one of her friends in the UK.

It’s been a horrible couple of weeks, but certainly the Truphone Local Anywhere product made things a little bit easier for her, and the good news is she’s now recovering well, and getting far more calls from the other side of the Atlantic as a result!

 

Truphone - 1st VoIP app on the iPad

 

Saturday saw the eagerly awaited launch of Apple’s latest must have gadget – the iPad. Truphone is the first VoIP application to be specifically produced for use on the iPad which we think is pretty darn cool. As you’d expect from the Truphone iPad application, it lets you make free wi-fi calls to other Truphone and Google Talk users and low-cost calls over wi-fi to landlines and mobile phones across the world.

Another cool feature of Truphone on the iPad is that it lets you chat via instant messenger (IM) to Google Talk, MSN and AIM users making it easier than ever to stay in touch with friends on the go.

You can find out more information about Truphone on the iPad by visiting the applications area of the Truphone website.