TwitterFone Sounds Like Success

How cool is Twitterfone? So very, very cool. Imagine you are out and about. Perhaps you are driving and you want to send a quick Twitter message to say you are running late or to remind someone of a dinner date? You can’t use your fingers to compose that tweet. What to do, what to do? You Twitterfone using the handsfree. Leave a sub-15 seconds message for the price of a national call (in this case!) and almost automagically it’s translated into text and rebroadcast on Twitter using your Twitter credentials. A fonetweet is posted. Easy, peasy and super cool to use.

Twitterfone launched today in the US, UK and Ireland.It’s in strict alpha mode, so it’s super hard to get an invite at the moment. Twitterfone supremo, Pat Phelan of Cubic Telecom says that Twitterfone will add support for a country a week to its service.

Twitterfone is a combination of the technology at work behind the scenes - VOX routes the calls, ZONG manages the mobile transaction, MAXroam takes care of the telephony magic under the hood and Dial2Do does the voice-to-text translation. All working together in a really cool, compelling package.

The Twitterfone team is comprised of Pat Phelan, Sean O Sullivan, Ivan MacDonald, David Marcus and Florian Seroussi. And the Twitterfone site is another stone-cold Sabrina classic. Very cool. Best of luck, Twitterfone.

Edit: A minor correction!

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