Now this is a good idea. Yeigo, the mobile VoIP company that is making an aggressive push into the market at the moment, has just announced a new feature for its service called Holler.
The idea is that you can prompt people who are in your Yeigo friends list to log into the service for free when you fancy a chat. All you need to do is select the person from your contacts list and choose the Holler Friend option. The friend’s phone will then ring and let them know that you want them to sign into their Yeigo client so that you can chat for free.
If another mobile VoIP company has a service like this, we certainly haven’t heard about it and Yeigo is clearly pulling out all of the stops to differentiate itself from the competition. We’re not sure if the term ‘holler’ is still accepted hip urban vernacular though, but that’s just nit picking.
(Via Yeigo Blog)
Geodesic announced yesterday the compatibility of its Mundu IM client for an assortment of mobile devices. Like Fring, Mundu IM allows you to navigate your existing AIM, MSN, Yahoo IM, , ICQ, Google Talk and Jabber services via a single client on your mobile phone (which is different to the way standalone VoIP apps like Vyke and Truphone work).
Supported operating systems include Pocket PC, Sony Ericsson J2ME, Palm OS, Windows Mobile as well as the iPhone and iPod Touch. The service has a few neat tricks up its sleeve too such as the ability to instantly share photos and videos taken from camera phones to contacts across all the supported IM services. Apparently this also works with file and music sharing too which is very interesting indeed.
The only kicker is that the application isn’t free (unlike Fring) but considering it is so feature rich, 11 dollars doesn’t seem like such an unreasonable price and will surely provide some pretty stiff competition.
(Via Just Another Mobile Phone Blog)
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