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VoX Mobile adds PayPal Mobile Wallet to Android app
Rating: Invest as little as $1 to make international calls
VoIP apps seem all the rage these days and VoX Mobile’s VoIP calling application is no exception. GoMobile News has covered this product previously (see our report here.) Now reseller, Techwave Marketing has contacted us again to promote the fact that the Vox mobile app has been updated to include support for the PayPal Mobile Wallet. So this facility has become available to PayPal’s over one hundred million users. GoMobile News isn’t a big fan of PayPal but some people obviously don’t share our concerns. Continue reading
Voxofon’s VoIP service overcomes the SMS gap
Rating: You can still send and receive texts from your featurephone mates
Here at GoMobile Towers we thought that the market for VoIP mobile apps was already overcrowded. However, it seems that Voxofon has come up with a bit of a new angle. It claims to have overcome the ‘SMS Gap’. Plenty of other VoIP apps allow their users to swap text messages (usually for free). But what happens when you come across a mate who is stubbornly sticking to his or her featurephone (and so can’t run Voxofon)? Voxofon has developed the technology to enable smartphone users to chat with non-smartphone users seamlessly at (obviously reasonable) VoIP rates. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Messaging, Mobile applications, SMS, WP7, WP8
Tagged Alexey Goloshubin, featurephone, Morgan Stanley, SMS Gap, voip, Voxofon, WP8
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OpenCloud helps put operators back in driving seat
Rating: especially when it comes to developing premium voice services
The ‘cloud’ is helping to “put mobile operators back in control” – especially when it comes to voice based services, according to Mark Windle, head of marketing at OpenCloud, Until very recently, mobile operators were severely limited on the scope of ‘innovative’ new services which they could launch because they were almost entirely dependent on their infrastructure suppliers – the likes of Ericsson, Nokia Siemens and Alcatel- Lucent, to implement such services. Typical IN (Intelligent Network) back-ends were effectively proprietary but Windle claims the solutions his company’s software can provide are truly ‘Open’. Consequently, operators can utilise OpenCloud’s ‘Open’ platform to launch services which directly compete against OTT (Over-The-Top) providers – like Skype (and Apple with Facetime). Continue reading
Posted in Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Mobile Operators, mobile cloud, nokia
Tagged Alcatel-Lucent, ericsson, facetime, freeyah, IN replacement, intelligent networks, Mark Windle, nokia siemens, Open, OpenCloud, OTT, poland, skype, Viber, voip
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Techwave points out Android version of Vox VoIP app
Rating: Promo codes for GoMobile readers, too
Obviously some of our stories become completely out of date and ‘Nokia gets mobile VoIP calls from VoX Communication‘ is a classic example. When Cian O’Sullivan wrote it two year ago the service only worked with the Nokia N900 since it was a Maemo app. But things have moved on rapidly and the Vox app now works on Android – dramatically enhancing the potential userbase. Hence, GoMobile News has been contacted by Techwave Marketing pointing out this major change. You can download the Vox app from Google Play here. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile applications, android, mobile voice
Tagged marketing, skype, techwave, voip, vox communications
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Vopium make VoIP calling for Android even easier
Rating: Latest version offers enhanced, money-saving features
For those determined to save as much as possible on their voice calling and text services, Vopium has decided to introduce an enhanced version of its flagship Android app. Vopium claims to be a leading Mobile VoIP service provider – offering low-cost but high-quality VoIP calls to over one million users in 52 countries. This news is so hot that the new version hasn’t surfaced on the Android Market quite yet. However, we’re assured that he new version of Vopium for Android features a streamlined user interface that improves communications and enhances the user experience. More to the point, however, this app should make great use of ‘presence’ to show users which networks their contacts are currently connected to. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile applications, android, mobile voice
Tagged android, calling, Tanveer Sharif, voip, Vopium
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Blueface launches fixed line services for smartphones
Small business owners in Ireland can now benefit from a virtual landline number on their smartphone via a new app, launched today by Blueface in partnership with the 3 network.
The iPhone app is the first of its kind in Ireland and promises ‘big business phone services at small business prices’, by enabling business owners to run a fixed line telephone number from their smartphone and make cost savings as well as the convenience of a landline number for customers. Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, iOS, mobile news
Tagged 3 IE, blueface, eire, ireland, three, vodafone one net, voip
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MobileVoip fixes bug in its Symbian app @ GoMo’s request
Rating: Now the app runs on Nokias as well as Android & iOS
Here at GoMo News we’re always interested to here from app developers who dare to venture outside the bounds of Infamous Duo – Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. So we were delighted to hear from MobileVoip that the company had just signed a brand new, Symbian version of its app. Naturally, we decided to test out the Symbian app and therein lies a tale. After much messing around we discovered why we were getting this particular error message: – ‘Unable to install. Constrained by the certificate.’ We discovered the answer on Nokia’s developer forum here. The app had indeed been signed but it wasn’t the production version, it would only run on a developer’s handset. So we had to get back in touch with MobileVoip. We’re very happy to announce that we are now up and running with the Symbian version. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile applications, android, iOS, mobile voice
Tagged android, ceriticate, cheap calls, constrained, iOS, MobileVoip, nokia, signed, symbian, voip
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Free calls follow the Twitter & Facebook fuelled revolutions
Rating: Rebtel offers free mobile yells to the rebels
In the spirit of helping the Middle East to throw off its oppressors, specialist mobile VoIP company, Rebtel, is offering free calls to those residing in areas affected by conflicts such as Algeria, Bahrain, and Jordan. While the free service is made possible by emergency numbers that the company has set up, it is also making it much cheaper to call certain countries in the Middle East. The list of cheaper calls includes those countries most affected by the conflicts including Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and, naturally, Libya. Continue reading
Posted in App stores, BlackBerry, Mobile applications, android, mobile voice
Tagged Bahrain, egypt, Libya, Rebtel, voip, Yemen
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Mobile VoIP: over 35% Vopium calls are 3G or Wi-Fi
Vopium uses VoIP to enhance regular operator services – and it has been expanding a lot in the last year, with new markets and new devices coming on-line regularly. It is now reporting that people making calls through Vopium are more regularly using Wi-Fi or 3G, with numbers rising from 19% to over 35% Continue reading
Vyke launches mobile VoIP “reseller” for telecoms
The mention of VoIP no longer causes the same knee-jerk response from operators that it used to. The days of vicious battles between Skype and networks seem to be behind us, as the carriers realize that VoIP is here to stay – and perhaps they should be trying to profit from it themselves. One company that wants to get in on that trend is VoIP provider Vyke – which has today announced the launch of Vyke Reseller, a global initiative to make selling it’s Voup vouchers easy for telecoms resellers. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Operators, mobile news, mobile voice
Tagged mobile, mobile carrier, mobile network, mobile operator, Mobile VoIP, voip, Vyke
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More cheap mobile calls through VoIP – this time it’s Vyke
There have been an enormous number of VoIP news releases recently – and not just the usual “operators hate VoIP” kind. More and more VoIP services are launching that simply enhance operator services, or offer cheaper calls abroad – like Vopium, VoX and the ever popular Nimbuzz. And some operators are even getting in on the deal themselves and launching their own services (like Sprint and Telefonica) . Today, VoIP provider Vyke is launching it’s new iPhone app, to save customers money on international calls. Continue reading
Posted in mobile news, mobile voice
Tagged App, application, iphone, mobile app, mobile application, mobile rates, Mobile VoIP, voice over IP, voip, Vyke
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Nimbuzz users talk for 3.65 billion minutes
Massively popular mobile voice app Nimbuzz has just released some landmark figures. The service, which combines VoIP, messaging and low-cost calls, has been downloaded 150 million times from various application stores – and it’s users have clocked up 3.65 billion minutes of talk time. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile applications, mobile news, mobile voice
Tagged mobile, mobile app, mobile application, mobile voice, Mobile VoIP, Nimbuzz, voip
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Nokia N8 gets free Wi-Fi voice calls from Vopium
VoIP provider Vopium has announced the launch of its news app for the Nokia N8. Nokia’s latest greatest hope for the smartphone market will be now able to access all the same free voice calls (or, at least, reduced price) that other platforms do through Vopium. The service also recently launched on Android, and in the UK (see our report) Continue reading
Mobile VoIP isn’t just for smartphones: Vopium launches in UK
Vopium has announced today that its VoIP service is available in the UK. The application is for pretty much any device, not just smartphones, and allows you to make free phone calls to other VoIP users – it also automatically detects the cheapest way possible to make phone calls to people who aren’t on VoIp. Read on for more. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Operators, Mobile applications, android, mobile news, mobile voice
Tagged android, mobile, mobile app, mobile application, mobile voice, voice calls, voip, Vopium
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Sprint delivers VoIP, wireless and mobile
Sprint has launched what it calls Wholesale Mobile Integration, the company’s newest fixed mobile convergence service. Wholesale Mobile Integration enables Sprint’s wholesale customers to deliver a converged solution to their business customers, integrating their wireline and wireless voice networks. Continue reading
