Smarter Call Back

I know international phone calls are expensive when one is overseas and calling or even receiving phone calls can be expensive even when you are on a roaming plan. Now, Hoiio provides a cheaper way to call friends and relatives. Remember how you would get someone to call you back? Watch the video below.



Now that you have discovered that everyone else is also doing the same to avoid over-paying for the calls, you can try Hoiio. Free registration. I like the fact that my overseas call will be reduced by 80% when using Hoiio. I like SMS to be at 8.8 cents per SMS when sent from overseas; flat rate. A whole lot better than 60 cents per SMS when in ASEAN and various rates from overseas.

What makes Hoiio stands out is that, when using it to call your friends, you can just dial from the call logs or phone book. Ever tried those call back cards where you have to call the service and key in the number from memory? Hoiio allows you to just dial from the phone book or call logs.

Even when there is a missed call, your friend can just dial the number and map it back to you. Other services just display "Private" or "Unknown" when you are using their call back services. Unfortunately for my case, I rarely call back unless I know the number. I had just too many cold calls to want to call back only to discover that I had to buy something.

This is a great service for those who often have more outgoing calls than incoming since it reduces your phone bills. I'm sure you signed up those mobile plans whereby your incoming local calls are free. You can even change the settings when you have downloaded Hoiio into your mobile such as using Hoiio to call whenever you are calling local or internationally.

What I discovered is that for Samsung Omnia, I would have to activate the programme before I can send SMS internationally at a flat rate since it doesn't have an option "Send via". For other mobile phones, I'm sure you would have the option.

This service has a free registration and there isn't any monthly fees or contract of any kind. Something that is also different, call back cards have expiry dates after they have been activated, this one doesn't seem to have any expiry. You have 5 ways to top up your credits: auto top up, online, SMS, friends to transfer credits or a post paid account.

Hoiio is currently supporting the following:

• J2ME MIDP 2.0 , CLDC 1.0
• Symbian S60 3rd Edition
• BlackBerry OS Version 4.2 & Above
• Windows Mobile 5 & 6
• Apple OS 2.1 & Above

If you have the above, try it out for free since you get credits just for joining.

This review was made possible by Hoiio and Ping.sg.

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