Roland Tanglao's Weblog

Truphone was easy to setup (Alec Saunders has a nice post about it) if you are familiar with WiFi on series 60 phones (getting much closer to something normal people can use!) and I verified it works with my land line. Nokia put the VoIP software in all of your WiFi phones not just the N80i!

I encountered a minor bug when trying to add $5 USD to my account with PayPal (PayPal worked but the redirect back to Truphone's site failed! Cheese Louise, it's 2006 why is ecommerce so hard!) but other than that it looks like a solid product.

Now the real test: cheap calls to Holland, and maybe even China and South Africa.

If you want to check it out call +13604880717 or better yet get an E61 or N80i and call me for free via Truphone!

I second that wow! Talk about "turning over the napkin" :-) of mobile payment. I'll have to try this, but it sounds very cool and amazingly enough it sounds like it works in Canada from the get go!

From Paypal Mobile Debuts -- Alec Saunders .LOG.:

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Wow. I just picked up the news about PayPal mobile from Russell Beattie and MobileCrunch. Now you can use SMS to make any kind of payment to anyone who has a phone. You simply text 729725 with "SEND x to yyyyyyyyyy" where x is the amount, and yyyyyyyyyy is the recipients phone number. A couple of seconds later your mobile rings, you enter your pin number, and press 1 to authorize the transaction, and you're done. Easy-peasy!

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