I tried Truphone last night -- flawless
I’ve got a call with SMS Text News reader Jeb this evening to discuss some blog possibilities with him. He emailed yesterday to ask if I had a Truphone number he could call as he’s calling from the West Coast of America.
I did have a Truphone number. Somewhere. I’m not sure. The trouble I had was when I signed up for Truphone ages ago, the wireless internet in my house was just pathetic. I mean ridiculous. Google would pop up after 15 seconds of ‘searching’. My 2mb broadband was being sucked dry by the thousands of kids in Billericay leeching from Youtube and KaZaa — despite having a ‘business’ connection with a ‘low contention ratio’. It was still shit slow.
So I tried Truphone ages ago but I didn’t react to it. I didn’t expect it to be brilliant — and it wasn’t — PURELY because of my stupid, stupid, STUPID internet connection speed. (I mean, I was lucky if I could get 5k throughput at times). Shit slow internet puts paid to any application, not least Truphone. I didn’t want to try it properly with my shit connection or even look at using it over 3G in the provinces and report challenging results because everyone else was clearly loving it.
So now I’m in central London and I’ve got TWO ultra fast internet connections — a BT one and a Virgin Media one. Thus I texted ‘tru’ to 44 7624 000 000 and followed the instructions.
Click, click, yes, click and bishbashbosh I was live.
I called my other T-Mobile handset and spoke to myself with unnerving clarity. So I’m looking forward to checking it out with Jeb this evening.
And, rather interestingly, Truphone are operating a wicked deal for all new subscribers:
Now all Truphone users who sign up before 30th September 2007 will get FREE mobile calls to 40 countries around the world until Dec 31st.
Provided you’re not sat on a shit slow 5k/sec ‘2mb broadband’ internet connection like I used to be, download it and have a play. We can phone each other!
