Truphone Review
Truphone Overview
Truphone is a mobile operator for the internet era. Truphone provides service over a third-party WiFi (Wireless Internet) connection that you connect to using your Nokia cellphone. That means free mobile calls to other Truphone users or very cheap calls to anyone else. Truphone can offer these free calls to other Truphone users and low rates to others because Truphone does not use your cellular providers network to send or receive calls, it uses your home, business or public hotspot WiFi connection to route calls over the internet.
| Basic Info | Service Provider Answers |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | London, UK |
| Year Established | 2006 |
| Call Type(s) | Voice over WiFi |
| Compatible Phones | Nokia E51, E61i, E65, E90, N95, E60, E61, E70, N80ie, N80, N81, N82, N95 |
| Availability | Truphone service can be used anywhere a WiFi network connection is available |
| Free Calls | With Truphone you can make free WiFi to WiFi calls |
| Phone Number | Truphone users in the UK and US will get Truphone numbers appropriate to their countries (i.e. +44 and +1 respectively). |
| Calling Rates | Truphone offers low cost flat rate calling to every country in the world |
| SMS | Truphone charges 10p/20c per SMS sent to any country worldwide |
| Instant Messaging | No instant messaging capabilities are available |
| Special Features | With Truphone there is no charge for inbound calls and you can get your voicemails sent to email |
March 31st, 2008 at 6:26 am
Truphone just works!
Excellent voice quality too. Unlike some of the other WiFi based VoIP offerings it does not seem to eat batteries!
April 6th, 2008 at 12:27 am
Used this to keep in touch with Canada while in Mexico City. When in hotel wifi hotspot, service connected easily and voice quality was excellent. Excellent and easy-to-retrieve voice mail service included. Would recommend as a native application for Nokia N and E series smartphones.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
i need to use my N series mobile phone connect with voip softwitch
April 13th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Truphone is the one mobile VoIP ofering that *just works*! I use it with my Nokia E51 and have configured it to recognise the WPA2 protected WiFi Access points at home and in my office. The E51 automatically registers with Truphone as I walk in through the door - and all my calls (and SMS) are routed over Truphone.
I am seriously considering converting from a Vodafone monthly post paid account to a pre-paid PAYG as my monthly GSM traffic no longer warrants being on an expensive monthly tariff!
April 24th, 2008 at 6:34 am
Use truphone everywhere! converted my family as well as my companies employees to use only truphone. Our voice quality has gone up, quite reliable (I tested most services) but truphone had the best quality, missing IM integration into the client as well as call outside of WiFi via truphone, SMS over IP is a great service and works globally on tru, customer service outstanding, price very low as truphone to truphone FREE globally.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:46 pm
No very easy to use, some features are still missing.
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:08 am
using truphone on my iphone 3g. ALL calls, even to the truphone test number have problems with voice cutting in and out. conversations cut off in both directions. emails to truphone take days for response. i’m sure it truphone would be awesome if it worked.
August 4th, 2008 at 3:04 am
I tried out Truphone today on my iPhone 3G. A friend said that it sounded like I was sitting a few feet from the phone. I also tried it when making a call to a CSR at a company. The conversation was tough because of the voice cutting out.
I’ve had Vonage VOIP in the past and did not run into issues like this. I would love to use Truphone since my phone signal is pretty low at my house, but if you can’t carry on a conversation then what’s the point.