Truphone, a Truly Grand Convenience

So you’re on Facebook and you just wrote an urgent message on your buddy’s wall. Alright, it’s kind of confidential, so you had to send him a message. But that doesn’t change how urgent, and you need to get ahold of them fast! You can:

1. Panic.
2. Get out of your comfortable chair to find your cellular device and browse through your contacts.
3. Wait.
4. Use Truphone to call them via Facebook to their cell phone. Convenient.

It can’t be that simple, can it? Truphone says “Why not?” It can. And if you’re ready to listen to a young fool explain it imperfectly, then read on! In a nutshell, Truphone uses a piece of software that they put together themselves to connect your computer via the internet to landlines.  To be honest, the whole concept is actually pretty darn complicated, and I think that this diagram would help:

For more information on how it works, click here.

You might be wondering why such a complex piece of software just works on Facebook.  The brilliant thing about this is that it doesn’t – it works almost like Skype and Gizmo, using VoIP.  However, in order to use it with your phone, you’re going to have to have a Nokia N-series and E-series (I’m out, I’ve got a Sony Ericsson).

Back to the original reason why I made a post on this news, here’s the link to the Facebook widget:

http://www.truphone.com/truphonefacebook.tru

Have fun, and enjoy your Truphoning.  Special thanks to Nick at Truphone for contacting me about such an interesting piece of software.