Category: voip

  • Problems receiving calls with Truphone

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    Tom Raftery
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    I set up a Truphone account to try out with the Nokia E61 I have been using the last few days. Truphone gives you a US landline number when you sign up for an account with them (mine is 14259053151). Calls to this number are supposed to be routed to my mobile whenever I am…

  • Is your mobile operator crippling your phone?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Making calls from your mobile over wifi, instead of your mobile provider’s network, saves lots of money on call charges. This has the obvious consequence of reducing the income of the bloodsucking mobile operators (all together now, awwwww). To ensure you can’t do this, some mobile operators have crippled the ability to make Internet calls…

  • Quick Nokia E61 review

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    Tom Raftery
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    A good friend gave me a Nokia E61 to try out recently. There are several things I don’t like about the phone: It is huge! It is really wide (to accommodate the qwerty keyboard) but this means your hand quickly becomes tired holding it to your ear for any prolonged period. It doesn’t have a…

  • Beware of Jajah's mobile web app!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I posted recently about Jajah’s mobile web app. It seemed like a great idea at the time. unfortunately I hadn’t tried it out before posting about it. I had an opportunity to try it out the other evening. I was trying to contact friends in New York from my mobile. I called up the Jajah…

  • Allfreecalls from Ireland!

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    Tom Raftery
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    Good buddy Pat Phelan [that’s the disclosure out of the way!] has launched an Irish version of his allfreecalls product. The thinking with this is that is you have signed up for a number of minutes a month from a local telco, then local and national calls are essentially free. With that in mind, Pat…

  • Jajah's mobile web

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    Tom Raftery
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    I saw a post on Pat Phelan’s blog this morning about Jajah. I use Jajah from time to time when making international calls from my landline and it saves me quite a bit of money. Jajah also has a downloadable plugin for the mobile phone which can be handy when it works, but is generally…

  • Pat's in trouble

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    Tom Raftery
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    I just got word that Pat Phelan is in some serious trouble – can’t say more at this time but watch this space and keep your keyboard fingers ready to try to help him out when this story breaks (probably in the next 24 hours).

  • Win an Acer pocket PC with Roam4free

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    Tom Raftery
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    As I posted earlier, Pat Phelan has launched his new Roam4free product. He is now looking for feedback and is offering to give an Acer Pocket PC to the “most helpful review”. Pat entered me into the competition because of the feedback I gave in my previous post – thanks Pat. Can you beat my…