I have started to use Truphone a great deal more then I have in the past.  I am now forwarding all my business calls to Truphone and starting to make a great deal of my calls via Truphone, all on my Nokia e61i.  Wow, it’s fantastic like always.  I had a 5-10 minute call today with Andy Abramson (thanks Andy for your time), we were both using the service (Truphone being one of his clients), I was in my office in Los Angeles and he was on the other side of the world in London.  All I can say is Andy, your clients are doing something very right.  Call quality was great and I didn’t detect any delay.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again Truphone is one of my favorite and most useful companies/services.  They have more potential then any company out there on the market today to make it big.  All I need now is a Nokia with US 3G and I will be ready to concur the world.

I got to sit in on an interview in Tel Aviv with Boaz Zilberman (Chief Architect), Neal Fullman (PR Director), and another very nice gentleman. I feel bad, I can’t remember his name, but he was also in PR for fring. I was very impressed with what they were telling us and with how they said fring works. So me being the huge fan of IM and VOIP decided to download the program as soon as I got out of the meeting. That being said I got back to my brother-in-laws house and downloaded fring to my Nokia E61i. I have been hooked ever since. Ewan MacLeod of SMS Text News (who was nice enough to bring me along to the interview prior to Unlimited Drinks) is also now hooked on fring.

I keep using it and keep liking it even more. Today I made a few calls over Skype and lots of instant messaging. fring rocks.

Keep up the good work fring Team and thanks for a great service!

Update: Full review to come.

I updated my software on my Nokia E61i a few days ago and the darn thing was running slow and doing funny things. So I decided to do a hard reset. With that done I had to input all the settings again and one of the first things I always do is go to the Nokia website and send the internet settings to my phone via sms. Well it wasn’t working so I thought I should just phone up AT&T and they would send them to me. Think again. They were very nice but told me they couldn’t help. My next thought was to call Nokia. I’m glad I did. The very nice women I got on the phone (I will with hold her name) wasn’t able to get the settings emailed to me so she just sent them to her personal phone. Wow someone took a vested interest in ME (this is one of the many reasons I’m loyal to Nokia). After she got the settings on her E70 she went in and walked me thorough inputting those mMode settings for AT&T into my phone. Walla! This woman is a genius. She got it right the first time.

I thought to myself, what if this happens again or when I get a new phone, I will need these settings and the Nokia woman said that the newer phones come with a wizard that is supposed to set it all up, but it won’t for AT&T. So what do I do, I ask her to email me the settings. She said she wasn’t able to for one reason or another but was nice enough to take her time and read them to me so I could type them and email them to myself to keep on file.

Thank you Nokia Customer Care!

Here is their number if anybody in the US needs help 888-665-4228

I’m back from Israel and the first Unlimited Drinks in Israel. It was a great trip and I had a wonderful visit with all my family. On my way home I had a short time to sit down in Ben Gurion Airport and relax. Of course I whipped out my MacBook and logged onto the free wifi in the airport. There is a central area where the fountain and many many stores including duty free and this is where the wifi is located. I didn’t get a chance to check the speed but I was able to make a VOIP call via Truphone on my Nokia mobile phone, besides just checking my email.

I was very happy with the results and would be happy to do some work next time I am in Ben Gurion Airport.