Mobile VoIP on any low end cell phones in India - No smartphone !

TringMe, in India, has launched a new patent pending service which allows a low-end mobile phone to make VoIP based calls without installing anything.

All one needs to do is send an SMS to TringMe and it will connect you to any phone number worldwide. It’s very convenient – no PC’s, no smartphone, no 3G/data connectivity and no configuration - just send a SMS containing the phone number and you are connected.

Couple this convenience with TringMe’s extremely competitive low-price worldwide calling rates for a win-win combination.

Infact, with this the call can terminate not only on phone but on any of the devices that TringMe terminates on. For e.g if a user has configured his TringMe profile to terminate inbound calls on IM (e.g. Gtalk), then sending an SMS with user’s tringme address will establish the call from the caller to user GTalk client.

It’s very easy to use this service. The alpha pilot is currently only available in India. You can send an SMS to 91- 9980153695 to try out this service. Please follow the instructions below:

Register
1 - Register with TringMe if you haven’t already – http://tringme.com

2- Register the mobile with TringMe from which one wants to make the low cost worldwide call. User can register their mobile with their TringMe account by sending an SMS as follows:

tringme reg

For example, “tringme reg myname@myemail.com abcdef”

A confirmation message will be received about success of the registration.

Making Calls
Once registered, user can make worldwide calls, not only to the phones but to Gtalk, SIP URI etc by merely sending an SMS as follows:

tringme

for example, to call a US number 1-(858)-555-1212, one only need to send a SMS “tringme 18585551212”

Users can also call millions of worldwide SIP users just by using SIP URI as follows:

tringme

To make a call to a registered TringMe user, send an SMS as follows:

tringme

This will establish a call from the originator’s mobile device to the calle’s currently configured termination device. For example, if user has chose to receive call on Gtalk, sending above SMS will connect your phone to his or her Gtalk.

You can even schedule a call for later time, say for a business meeting or conference. TringMe understand time in plain english and you can specify absolute date and time or in relative terms. You can schedule it in one of several ways:

tringme 18585551212 next week 11:30AM
tringme 18585551212 March 17, 2008 11:30AM
tringme 18585551212 tomorrow 11:30AM

The time specified will be as per the timezone setting which you have configured in your TringMe profile.

To unscheduled a call, just send “tringme unsched ” in the SMS body.

One can unregister the mobile currently registered with TringMe by sending message “tringme unreg“.
To check the account balance, send message “tringme bal”. Also, “tringme help” message will get you help on existing commands.