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Story: Mobile VoIP means business

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Mobiboo, Truphone, fring etc...

I have to admit that i haven't heard of Fring .. sounds a bit rude for my likeing. I have been watching this battle between Truphone and Mobiboo unravel. Mobiboo launches a great product, Truphone lanches a shit product that just doesn't work. I tried it on like 6 different phones - I think they are just making money from poeple texting their £1 a text number (beware people!).

Mobiboo's Dashboard product works 100% - glitch free. I called Mobiboo upa nd spoke to someone in customer care who was in the UK, and they said that they are about to launch a client for Nokia, Motorola and QTEK phones in February ... hey said that unlike some other efforts it does work. I said that i would wait and see, so they offerred to let me triel it. This was like 10 days or so, ago.

I didn't think much more of it until i saw somethign arrive inmy email and it was mobiboo for my Nokia phone. I installed it with the Nokia data suite on to my N80 and also on my 6680 and it's brilliant. It works jsut like a normal phone but calls go via Mobiboo and not Vodafone ... oh yes and there's a sligght cost advantage too ... Vodafone to Washington D.C. 87p per min - Mobiboo 1.5p per min and cystal clear. I also set my brother up in Sydney (OZ) ... how he's a grumpy bastard and things this really is better than a roast dinner.

So, I am mobibooed out, mobiboo frenzy.

Oh yeah, I just got the new home buffet package ... anything with the word buffet for me is good ... yummy ... and god was I pleased with it. unlimited minutes in the UK for a year for £39 - now thatis value.

Truphone should be called Loophone ... coz it belong in the toilet - can't say much about Fring coz i've never seen it and Mobiboo, well an interesting name (wonder where it originates) - well hats and coats and gloves off to you ... a fab product. As someone who spends all day every day on the phone to customers and clients i can say that just adding a headset to Mobiboo has turned my PC in to one serious bloody phone. I get like 8 calls arriving on Mobiboo dashboard and I can put them on hold, answer the next, switch between them - brill .. ALL WHILST SENDING TEXT MESSAGES :)

OK, there must be somethign bad about Mobiboo, nothing's perfect. I kept looking and looking and I think I found an impurity ... sometimes it shows me mate offline on the buddy list when he's opnline but Mobiboo say that that could be a network error somewhere or some presence server not updating ... but hell do I care, nah ... not a jot, Mobiboo is my neeeeeeeewwww baby!

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