The developers of TruPhone have made it possible to purchase a monthly plan for $14.99, offering 1,000 minutes of talk time in the US and Canada, and UK£7.49 for UK citizens.
James Tagg, CEO of TruPhone states:
“iPhone and Nokia owners who regularly call North America can purchase Truphone’s bundle to get ‘peace of mind’ pricing of just
1.5 US cents - 0.75 pence – per minute to the USA and Canada from anywhere in the world. People don’t want to calculate precise ‘per minute’ rates, or check tariff websites, or take a paid-for tariff ‘bolt-on’ to get a still-high rate. They simply want to feel comfortable about what they’re going to pay for the call they want to make.”
Check out a video of TruPhone in action just below:
Here are some important points for those interested:
A UK ‘pay monthly’ iPhone owner making a call to the USA or Canada, with O2’s International Traveller
Service option, is charged UK£0.17 per minute. This means that someone
making more than 45 minutes of calls to the USA/Canada in a month will
be better off with the Tru Saver bundle.- Without the International Traveller Service option (i.e. a customer
on O2’s £30 per month tariff), the otherwise-identical O2 customer is
charged UK£0.99 per minute. For this customer, the payback period on
the Tru Saver bundle is reduced to a little over seven and a half
minutes of calls - offering, effectively, a further 992.5 Tru Saver
minutes for free.
- Since the Tru Saver bundle applies for calls to the United States
and Canada from anywhere in the world, the payback period for an iPhone
user calling these countries while roaming are even shorter - as little
as three or four minutes in some cases, giving up to 996 effectively
free Tru Saver minut
(via iPhone Alley)
Written by Jody Mitoma on August 19th, 2008 with no comments.
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Apple is blaming a problem with overheating iPods in Japan on faulty batteries, the company said in a statement Tuesday.In response to reports that Japan is investigating incidents of iPod nanos getting hot enough to scorch paper placed nearby, Apple acknowledged that "in very rare cases" first-generation iPod nanos sold between September 2005 and December 2006 can overheat.
This problem, which Apple said is extremely rare, causes "failure and deformation of the iPod nano."
The company said it has received reports about less than 0.001 percent of first-generation iPod nano units acting in this way, and has traced the problem to a single battery supplier. Apple did not name the supplier.
Apple added that there have been no reports of serious injuries or property damage due to the overheating problem, and no reports of incidents for any other iPod nano model.
The company advised iPod nano customers who have experienced an overheating battery or who have concerns to contact AppleCare. iPod nanos with faulty batteries will be replaced for free by Apple.
Apple's statement was in response to reports out of Japan Monday that the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry was investigating two separate incidents in Tokyo in which iPod nanos overheated, burning nearby paper and a woven straw mat.
In March, the Japanese ministry reported a similar incident, in which sparks flew out of an iPod nano.
Written by santhosh on August 19th, 2008 with no comments.
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The App Store has yet to avail a voice-based turn-by-turn GPS system for download.
With Apple’s new GPS features within the iPhone 2.0 firmware, you’d expect that a turn-by-turn, voice-based GPS system would of been available by now, but unfortunately, that is not the case.
TomTom, Garmin, and Magellan, some of the larger GPS companies of today, are very interested in the iPhone’s ability to do so, and will most likely reveal something sooner than later, however, nothing has been revealed to the public as of yet, and the App Store has been available for more than a month now.
One problem that may be getting in the way is Apple. Apple needs to approve all applications that are brought to their attention for the App Store, and it just may be that they aren’t agreeing with what is being brought to the table.
“We have made our navigation system run on the iPhone; it looks good and works very well,” said Dutch-based company TomTom, in a statement to msnbc.com. “We will have to look more closely to Apple’s strategy before we can say more about what kind of opportunities this will bring us.”
Garmin offers a $99/year “Garmin Mobile” plan for GPS-equipped smartphones, including certain models of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry and Samsung’s Blackjack. But nothing in turns of the iPhone, yet.
“We’re always looking at new phone platforms to expand into for Garmin Mobile, but we don’t have any announcements regarding the iPhone at this time,” said Jessica Myers of Garmin International.
Magellan spokesman Raphel Finelli said the company does “not have immediate plans for this, but we are looking into it.”
Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies market analyst, said “in talking to some of the guys in the software community, they believe we’ll see voice turn-by-turn directions within the next three months” for the iPhone, and certainly “before the end of the year.” Lets just hope he’s right.
Sal Dhanani, the co-founder of TeleNav, which is a GPS software maker, said that as soon as Apple announced the SDK, the company purchased a copy and started working on a GPS program for the iPhone.
“Just like every other developer, we signed up for the program and downloaded the SDK, even though there were some specific clauses in the developer agreement that said you can’t write GPS navigation applications,” he said.
Dhanani said TeleNav has proceeded ahead with its GPS program, TeleNav Navigator, for the iPhone, and found that it works quite well on the device “which is more than capable of providing an application like this,” he said. “The GPS worked really well.”
Another possibility is that Apple themselves are working on a GPS application for release within the App Store. This may be reason that Apple is not allowing other companies and developers to release such applications yet.
We’ll definitely let you know if there are any breakthrough announcements about voice-based turn-by-turn GPS systems for the iPhone in the future.
(via MSNBC)
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TurkCell, the leading wireless phone carrier in Turkey, has announced that they will be bringing the iPhone 3G to Turkey some time later this year. TurkCell is the placeholder of 56% of the market in said country. Vodafone also announced in May that they would be bringing the iPhone there as well. This has yet to occur.
“We’re very excited to be working with Apple to
bring the iPhone 3G to Turkey,” said, Lale Saral Develioglu, Turkcell’s
chief marketing officer. “iPhone 3G represents the ultimate in mobile
device technologies, and we can’t wait to offer this innovative product to millions of mobile customers later this year.”
Plan pricing is not yet available, but once that information is revealed, we’ll be sure to share for you Turkish folks. If you’re at all interested in getting yourself an iPhone 3G, you can register to be notified as to when it will be available at here.
(via iPhone Alley)
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Sony Ericsson is one the leading companies when it comes to mobile phone manufacturing. The New Sony Ericsson W series Phones are known for their superb sound quality and the tough competition they are giving to the Mp3 players.
In 2001, the Japanese giant Sony merged with Ericsson and the result was as good as Sony Ericsson that took the industry of mobile phones by storm. In this technologically drive society, this particular brand has been successfully responsible for giving some of the world-class handsets to their potential users and their renowned series have made them oust the major mobile phone manufacturers and make a promising place around the globe. The company has made various mobile handsets so far which have been truly popular in their own circles and have seeped well in their target markets.
Sony Ericsson is known for manufacturing and very exquisite and unique designed phones. Be it clamshells, stylish sliders or simple candy bars, this company has shown its worth in every segment. The company is striving to satisfy the ever changing needs and ever growing expectation of the users. These phones cater to different people who have different needs like some need a phone that is alluring in looks, while some look for a phone that works like a personal computer which can be carried in the pockets, some people want a mobile phone which serves the purpose of a gaming device, many users want to explore their photographic instincts with the help of a mobile which has a dedicated camera.
If music is what you are looking for and you wish to explore it, then there is no better tool than the New Sony Ericsson W series mobile phones to satisfy your musical inside. Sony Ericsson proudly showcases an impressive series of mobile devices with stupendous musical potential in the form of fashionable Walkman series.
The Walkman series by the company was launched in 2005 and has become a successful hit since then. The New Sony Ericsson W series phones including Sony Ericsson W910i Black W850i, W960i and many more. All of these are music centric devices which are appreciated for their brilliant and dedicated music players in it. These phones are immensely popular specially amongst the youth due to its impeccable sound quality which is distortion free. The mobility experience of the user becomes euphoric as the user is now enabled to listen to its favourite music without any hassle. Lets throw light on the very attractive Sony Ericsson W910 which is a eminent part of the New Sony Ericsson W series phones. This phone comes in a stylish slide design which showcases the 2.0 Mega Pixels camera at the back when the slide is pushed in the upward direction. The camera produces images carrying a resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels. In this mobile phone you shall find a secondary camera which is used for the purpose of videocalling. Being a music centric phone the mobile device is incorporated with Walkman 3.0 player which plays your selected tracks with ease. The TrackID music recognition software, which is present in this classy phone that stores all the information of the songs that have been stored.
It has the feature of Motion sensor integrated. The FM radio with RDS helps you keep yourself updated with the latest happening around the world. The sound produced by the phone is so clear and strong that it effortlessly replaces any kind of MP3 player or iPod. Despite being such a talented phone, the battery backup is very spectacular which is capable of providing the user a talktime of up to 9 hours and the stand by up to 400 hours.
The music phone is not only catering to only music lover but also for people who are looking for a device that solves their camera needs by its reasonably good camera. Since the gadget is Java MIDP 2.0 enabled the Sony Ericsson W890i supports high definition JAVA games which the user can download from the specific resource websites using the WAP 2.0/x HTML.
Not only the W910, but mostly all the Sony Ericsson W series phones are instilled with such stunning features.
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