Apple iPod touch gets Truphone 3.0

[Simond]

Truphone 3.0 has been released with a major new upgrade to its mobile VoIP application for the Apple iPod touch.The Truphone user experience is now slicker and more intuitive than ever before. The new version dramatically builds upon the success of previous versions of the VoIP application for the iPod, enhancing users` instant messaging and account management experience, faster than ever before, and delivering a new standard for call quality. Among the many improvements in Truphone 3.0 are increased ease of use, speed of function response, intuitiveness and simplicity – all designed to enhance the users' experience.

Truphone has improved voice quality making the app for the iPhone better than it's ever been before.it is a free Voice-over-IP (VoIP) app for iPhone and iPod touch, also uses an account management tool, which, according to the developers, outpaces anything else currently available on the market.There is integrated messaging tool that unifies all IM communities in a single place, users can now simply manage all their IM communication from a single page within the application, eliminating the need to constantly jockey between different applications or even different pages within an application.

IM services currently supported include Skype, MSN Messenger, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger and Google Talk.The app itself is, overall, faster and now works natively on both the iPhone, and the iPod touch. Lastly the application is touted by its makers as the best app of its kind on the market thanks to the improved call quality available with Truphone 3.0. Geraldine Wilson, CEO Truphone said,"Customers tell us they want three things: simplicity, quality and a good deal. Those principles drive our innovation, and Truphone 3.0 delivers on all three. We've dramatically improved our UI and account management tools".

He added,"We've eliminated the need for compression by utilizing new advances in signal processing, making calls crystal clear. And, just as we always do, Truphone 3.0 sets a new benchmark in terms of quality and performance that competitors will have a tough time matching".

[Regina]

Truphone 3.0 Features

• Free Instant Messages when in Wi-Fi to:
  
• Skype
• MSN Messenger
• Google Talk
• Yahoo! Messenger
• AIM
  
  
• Free calls when in Wi-Fi to:
  
• Other Truphone users
• Skype and Google Talk users
  
  
  
• Account Management:
  
  • See rates for calls before initiating a call
  • Display recent call history, showing the Truphone customer exactly how much a call just cost and how long it lasted with the ability to see a summary of calls made month by month
  • Top-up from within the application, without the need for web windows to open separately
  • Top-up in a variety of ways: credit card or PayPal
  • Change calling tariffs within the application
  
  
  
• Incredible savings on calls to:
  
  • Call landlines and mobiles around the world at cheap rates

[Haani]

Skype, Fring and now truphone on ipod touch. I am already using a number of VoIP services like skype, fring, vopium and truphone but the best thing i like about truphone is its best call quality and cheaper rates.