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Truphone Android app gets refreshed
Complete overhaul of the interface 29 September 2009 17:55 GMT
Truphone has announced that its popular Android app is getting an upgrade, to version 2.0. The application will be benefiting from a completely new user interface, better account management and it'll also now run natively - meaning it'll run faster.

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Truphone adds support for 11 Nokia handsets
Now available through the Ovi Store 26 June 2009 13:14 GMT
Truphone has announced it has added 11 additional Nokia handsets to the list of devices compatible with the Truphone VoIP service.

"We first introduced Truphone on a Nokia device so we are pleased to be able to increase the range of compatible Nokia devices...
Truphone 3.0 announced for iPhone
VoIP app gets upgrade 28 April 2009 14:02 GMT
Truphone has launched Truphone 3.0, an upgrade to its mobile VoIP application for the Apple iPhone.

The company promises improved ease of use, speed of function response, intuitiveness and simplicity. In addition, voice quality is said to have been made better....
Truphone launches Truphone Business BlackBerry app
Save 50% or more on international calls 17 March 2009 10:36 GMT
Truphone has launched Truphone Business, a new BlackBerry application that will allow business users to make international calls from their mobiles on the cheap.

Users will be charged at fixed line rates, apparently allowing them to save 50% or more on the cost...
A quick guide to VoIP
What, why, who, how explained 10 March 2009 14:23 GMT
What is it?
Standing for, Voice Over IP or Voice Over Internet Protocol – to be more specific. Essentially it’s a way of transmitting voice over the Internet to a similar, or an identical item on the receiving end.

This could be software or hardware capable...
Truphone announces "Local Anywhere" single-SIM service
"Every call local" claim will see savings of up to 80% on roaming charges 17 February 2009 14:44 GMT
Truphone has announced that it plans to launch Truphone Local Anywhere - a single-SIM, multi-country mobile service that will make any mobile call within the set of supported countries into a local call.

Due to be available later this year, it's being described...
Truphone integrates AIM into its Apple apps
Adds Paypal to prepayment options too 16 February 2009 19:18 GMT
Mobile VoIP service Truphone has integrated AOL Instant Messenger into its iPhone and iPod Touch applications.

Any customers on these devices will now be able to use Truphone to
instant message their AIM friends as well as make calls.

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Truphone launches Android app
"Anywhere" available now 21 January 2009 16:57 GMT
Truphone has announced the availability of its Truphone Anywhere application for the Android-based G1.

Truphone Anywhere for Android claims to deliver an "all-in-one conversations hub" that allows customers to take advantage of what the company says are low...
Skype comes to iPhone
Macworld 2009: Via Truphone app 6 January 2009 3:11 GMT
Skype users will soon be able to talk to each other via the iPhone thanks to Truphone.

Officially announcing on Tuesday at the start of Macworld in San Francisco, Pocket-lint has learnt that Truphone will announce that it has worked with Skype to bring the...
Truphone launches VOIP app for iPod touch
Make Wi-Fi calls on your MP3 player 4 December 2008 14:58 GMT
Truphone has released a new app for the iPod touch that effectively turns the MP3 player into a mobile phone - with the addition of a microphone adapter.

The software is offered free via Apple App Store, and as the calls are made via the device's Wi-Fi connectivity...
Truphone Anywhere launches for BlackBerry
Beta version free to download 28 October 2008 10:17 GMT
Truphone has launched a beta of its mobile internet telephony service, Truphone Anywhere, for BlackBerry smartphones.

The company says Truphone Anywhere brings simple, easy and cheap international calling to up to 40 million BlackBerry users across the world.
Truphone "welcomes" iPhone SDK
Getting cracking on some official VoIP apps 7 March 2008 15:25 GMT
Injunction-happy VoIP co Truphone today "welcomed" Apple's launch of the SDK for the iPhone.

Apple boss Steve Jobs revealed that although VoIP apps would be approved for the iPhone if they worked over Wi-Fi, GSM-based solutions would be banned from the official...
Businessman gets £11,000 phone bill
For downloading four episodes of friends 4 March 2008 11:26 GMT
Have you heard of latest Friends episode - "The one where a Friends mobile download cost £11,000"?

A British businessman has returned from a 2-day trip to Germany to a record mobile phone bill.

According to reports, his wife had used his "unlimited"...
Truphone offers free calls from Facebook
Toll-free chatting 6 December 2007 14:31 GMT
Free calls using Facebook is the promise from Truphone's latest application.

The "call me" option, which Facebook users can opt to download, will allow them to make calls over the Internet.

The call button is moveable and can be placed on Facebook...
Truphone demos VoIP calls on the iPhone
AT&T delighted 27 September 2007 8:22 GMT
Truphone has given the first public demonstration of a VoIP over Wi-Fi phone call on the Apple iPhone.

Chief executive officer James Tagg made the call at the DEMOfall 07 event in San Diego, CA.

Truphone's demo comprised of two iPhones connected...
VoIP fights back as Truphone get injuction against T-Mobile
Service resumed 17 July 2007 10:33 GMT
Truphone, the VoIP operator who sprung to awareness following Orange and Vodafone blocking its service on the popular Nokia N95 has won another battle in the courts, this time against T-Mobile.

Following the operator blocking the service, which gives you a...
Truphone version 3.0 for E-Series and N-Series Nokia phones
Improvements, free calls offers, updates, tweaks 29 June 2007 12:27 GMT
The mobile internet network operator Truphone has added a suite of advanced features to its beta VoIP service for mobile phones, and extended its offer of free calls to 40 countries until the end of 2007.

The SMS over IP capability brings the prospect of unlimited...
Four out of five don't know costs of using a mobile phone abroad
Roaming charges are how much? 8 May 2007 16:29 GMT
According to a survey by Truphone, a mobile internet network operator, almost four in every ten of us will still feel cheated by mobile phone roaming charges even if the EU parliament votes tomorrow to reduce them by 70%. One in eight of us say that even the dramatic reduction...
Truphone to offer free calls to landlines worldwide from mobiles
But only if you find a Wi-Fi hotspot and have a Nokia smartphone 17 October 2006 17:52 GMT
Truphone is expanding its software offering for Nokia mobiles to extend support to Nokia N80 mobiles so that users can make free VoIP calls.

Truphone customers can make free calls to other Truphone handsets when both are in a Wi-Fi hotspot, and until the end...