trutap

Great news! After many months of perspiration and inspiration, today we're launching our next generation application at the Future of Mobile conference today in London. In addition to a stylish new design, the new version has lots of features that make finding and keeping in touch with friends really easy - including a personal newsfeed, a list of who's online, sharing of status and location, a new extended profile with lots more fields, improved user search, email and SMS! Plus the app has all the existing private messaging, news, blogging, photo-sharing and mobile IM features you know and love. You can read all about it on our features page - have you noticed our brand new web site too?

The new application is already available for all of the following handsets, and we'll be adding more every week:

• Nokia 3110c
• Nokia 3109c
• Nokia 3500c
• Nokia 5200
• Nokia 5300
• Nokia 6085
• Nokia 6086
• Nokia 6126
• Nokia 6131
• Nokia 6133
• Nokia 6233
• Nokia 6234
• Nokia 6300
• Nokia 7373
• Nokia 7390
• Nokia 8600 Luna
• Sony Ericsson K530
• Sony Ericsson K550
• Sony Ericsson K610
• Sony Ericsson K618
• Sony Ericsson K770
• Sony Ericsson K790
• Sony Ericsson K800
• Sony Ericsson K810
• Sony Ericsson K818
• Sony Ericsson S500
• Sony Ericsson T650
• Sony Ericsson T658
• Sony Ericsson V630
• Sony Ericsson W350
• Sony Ericsson W380
• Sony Ericsson W580
• Sony Ericsson W610
• Sony Ericsson W660
• Sony Ericsson W710
• Sony Ericsson W830
• Sony Ericsson W850
• Sony Ericsson W880
• Sony Ericsson W888
• Sony Ericsson Z555
• Sony Ericsson Z610
• Sony Ericsson Z710

If you're a new user, just go to the homepage to get a link to download the application or download to PC. If you're an existing user, go to http://m.trutap.com/u on your mobile phone browser to check whether the new app is available for your phone, then follow the instructions for upgrading.

We'd like to hear what you think - so get Trutapping and send us your comments on the forums or by filling in our contact form. We hope you love it!

Doug will be attending the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Macau on 18th-20th November, and will be speaking at the Mobile Innovation Marketplace on the afternoon of Tuesday 18th. If you'd like to arrange a meeting while Doug is there just get in touch.

Look out for Doug Richard our CEO and Chairman at the FT World Telecoms Conference in London. Doug is chairing the morning session and Vinny Hayes will be working the crowds sporting his new Thailand sun tan.

Just in - Carl and Vinny have won the best presentation award at the Symbian Smartphone Show, after presenting Trutap in the speednet competition. Fantastic!

Our CTO Carl will be presenting Trutap in the SpeedNet@DevFest session at the Symbian Smartphone Show on Tuesday 21st October. He'll also be running a session at mobile Jam on the coolest recent mobile phone developments, along with Caroline Lewko, so if you're attending feel free to drop by and say hello.

Luke Brynley-Jones, our Head of Product, is at the IIR Converged Messaging Summit in Munich this week, speaking on the topic “Overcoming the challenges to optimise your converged messaging offering”. The conference takes place at the Holiday Inn, and covers the gamut of messaging from IM, SMS and MMS through to IP-based messaging and social networking messaging - so it's right up Trutap's street. We suspect the attractions of the Oktoberfest might also be right up Luke's street, though he'd be well advised to steer clear of anyone who fancies a game of Hau-den-Lukas ("Hit-the-Luke").

Trutap CEO Doug Richard is speaking at the Future of Mobile (FOM) conference in London on 17^th November. He will spill the beans on why Trutap is so popular around the world – especially in Asia – and offer his insights on how to make great mobile applications for developing markets.

Doug has submitted two panel proposals for next year's SXSW Interactive Festival, taking place on March 13-17 2009 in Austin, Texas. The community gets to vote on which proposals make the final programme, so this is where you come in... head over to the links below and please give your vote by clicking on the star ratings.

1. How the mobile phone will save the world, tomorrow
Mobile is the fastest growing market in the world today. Other than being a completely personal device, it's also an enabler. There are more mobile phones in the hands of impoverished people than any other electronic device, opening them up to incredible things such as payment services. This is just the beginning for how mobile phones can save the world.

2. Silicon Valley's Irrelevance in the Next Generation of Mobile
The US is so focused on the iPhone, it's become like a rabbit caught in headlights. The iPhone has brought the internet to mobile phones in the US, but the rest of the world was using mobile internet long before, on handsets with greater functionality. The next generation of mobile development is coming from emerging markets.

And if you're short of time you can quickly rate both proposals from this summary page

Voting closes on August 29

Thanks!

Doug will be a speaker on the Mobile Social Media panel at the Mobile 2.0 Europe conference in Barcelona on 4th July. If you're attending and would like to meet up, just let us know.