Truphone ‘Bad Boy’ James Tagg happy to join GSM set
Rating: Offering so good he’s reselling to others
Down at the Wireless08 show at London’s Olympia, I run into Truphone CEO, James Tagg. He’s cooing about being a real GSM operator courtesy of his company’s recent purchase of SIMtravel. The irony of the situation is that the bad boy of the GSM scene is now reselling GSM capacity on a wholesale basis.
That’s apparently because SIMtravel acquired the latest tech from Nokia – Nokia Seamless Networks – before Truphone bought it. Anyway, Tagg was dropping some very heavy hints that I should wake up early on May 28th and download the very next iteration of Truphone. He wouldn’t say any more.
But we did have a very interesting discussion about my ‘nobbled’ Nokia N95 from Orange. The Internet Telephony app is missing as standard. I’ve now found a SIM hack from SIMable and a firmware hack from B-phreaks. So I can at last run Truphone on my own personal handset.
A very curious thing happened when I derestricted this handset. All of a sudden the standard Nokia Search app made a very prominent appearance on the N95’s idle screen. The real shame is that I don’t recall whether this particular utility was missing from my original Orange supplied handset. If it is, then you now know how to get to it!
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