Dear Poketalk’ers

We assume that you are full of good intentions for the new year.
We wish you all a prosperous and happy 2012, and hoping to see new shining Poketalk developments in the course of this new year!

We would like to summarize our biggest achievements of the last year:
Poketalk & Lenovo partnership
Poketalk Desktop Phone
Poketalk Android Application
Poketalk Firefox Plugin

Thank you for all of your support!
Happy Poking in 2012!
Poketalk Team

Dear Firefox Users,

We have recently released our Firefox plugin which should further facilitate your international connections on the go!

It can also automatically adapt itself to your default Firefox language.

Happy Poking,
PokeTALK Team

Hey PokeTALK’ers!

We have great news for you and for the ones who have not already gotten to know us.  They will though thanks to our recent agreement with Lenovo.

According to the recent partnership, all the Lenovo tablets are coming with the Poketalk application installed on the desktop. From now on,  making international calls with the tablets will be more  practical than ever. Even if your country is not listed in local numbers service, you will still be able to use web-callback service with the most convenience through the Lenovo tablet.

Lenovo users also will be enjoying free calls provided with each sign up and with call quality at its highest level.

Here is a fresh writing about us on Yahoo.

Keep following us, we have a lot more developments on the way!

Happy Poking,
PokeTALK Team

Hi Folks,

You have requested, and we deliver!

To date we have focused on services from phone to phone, which is guaranteed to be the highest quality and doesn’t always require a computer or internet connection. Due to great demand, we have released a pc-to-phone client which was requested by many users.  Thus, we took the necessary steps and rolled the software out.

We are proud to present you the PokeTALK desktop phone.

Instructions:

You do not use your PokeTALK username to login. Instead, you receive a number starting with 888 to your email with the download link and use the number to login.
Your password remains the same.

The desktop phone rates are the same as local numbers. So, whoever could not benefit from the lowest international rates in the market due to local numbers service being provided in limited countries, is now invited to take advantage of the prices that are -30% less than Skype’s.

We welcome all feedback!

Happy Poking,
PokeTALK Team

Hi Poketalk’ers

As promised, we are glad to present you our recently released  Android application.

Here is the phone version:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.poketalkphone

and the tablet version:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.poketalk

Enjoy and get the most out of it!

Happy Poking,
PokeTALK Team

Dear Loyal Users,

You know more or less how competitive the VoIP market is and how hard it is to survive amongst huge companies. We are trying hard to catch on with the market and put our best foot forward with new services for you to enjoy.

Our developers are making final touches to finish up the Android application. If you have any suggestions or interesting ideas, please let us know before we release it.

Your feedback is the most important thing for us!

Happy Poking,
PokeTALK Team

Hi PokeTALK’ers

Billing Report is one of the most prominent feature of ours.
Maybe our competitors have something that functions alike but probably not like as practical as we provide.

First of all, if you don’t see it in your services bar, your first job is to click on customize, find Billing Reports and install it as shown below:

After running the feature, you will notice that it is so simple to use and everything is very clear.
It includes all the info that you need; date, duration and cost of the each call as well as your balance according to the specified date. Our developers touch also made the feature esthetic:

Happy Poking,
PokeTALK Team

ITFacts quotes:
“Services such as VOIP, video, music, radio, news and instant messaging coupled with mobile devices such as a WiFi enabled iPod, and the ubiquity of broadband will result in 100 mln consumer mobile VOIP users in 2011.”

WiFi enabled mobile entertainment devices will make up 36% of all mobile VOIP devices sold in 2011. This will be driven by the popularity of Apple’s iPhone.”

Apple announced that more than 3 billion apps have been downloaded from its App Store by iPhone users worldwide. This comes nearly 9 months after it first hit 1 billion downloads served, and just over 3 months since it reached the 2 billion downloads mark.

With such remarkable growth and demand from consumers, we just wanted to to remind you that our iPhone application is out there waiting for your convenient time to be downloaded. With our app you will have all the convenient PokeTALK features optimized simply for your iphone usage.

Happy Poking,

PokeTALK Team

If you are a regular international traveler, then you really need to get yourself a PokeTALK SIM card which is perfect from calling from your own mobile when travelling.

Here are some essential reasons to use the PokeTALK SIM Card:

• There are no unexpected global roaming charges
• Receiving a call is free of charge in over 50 countries!
• Possibility to track your calls’ duration, cost and timeframe
• Free voicemail support

Another great benefit of an International SIM card is that it is prepaid which means that you can easily control your cash flow. Unlike with traditional operators, everything is transparent; you can login to the web portal for full call details, and receive a free sms with your call cost after each call.

We know you can’t wait to see our SIM rates
Here you may find all the details by clicking on Roaming SIM.

Happy Poking,
PokeTALK Team

SMS callback – this is one of our most asked about features and rightfully so. SMS callback allows you to make a call simply by sending an SMS. Why is this so useful you ask? First of all, it can save you huge amounts on roaming fees (meaning that you use your sim card when travelling overseas) because an incoming call is much cheaper than an outgoing call. Secondly, you can make a call at our super low rates anytime, without being near a computer. Before getting started just make sure that you have credit in your account and have set your mobile number in the SMS callback feature.

Scheduled calls – do you have a conference call for work tomorrow, or a special birthday wish you need to make, why not schedule the call now and forget about it ? This way you will receive the call exactly at the time you need to at the most efficiency. If the call will be from your mobile, then you will also receive an SMS 5 minutes before to remind you.

Local numbers -  our brightest feature allows you to make your calls directly from any phone, no need for a computer or accessing PokeTALK. You just need to login once and assign your destination number, then you will get a local number which forwards to the number you would like to be connected to. Also you need to make sure that you are calling from a phone that is already added into your ‘Registered Numbers’ and that your caller id is on so our system may recognize your Pro account.

Thank you and we are looking forward to reply to any questions you may have,

Regards,

PokeTALK Team

If you live in the UK, Germany or Israel, and make international calls, then you might like to try the unique dial in services that we offer in these countries. Each service allows you to call a unique mobile number in your country that already forwards to your contact overseas. Best of all, to use the service there are no payments, you simply call the local number we give you.

You may be asking how can we offer such a service? In each country we have negotiated agreements with local carriers for them to assign us numbers. When you call the number, which for you cost the same rate as calling any other local mobile in your country, then we profit, and since we specialize in connecting international calls, we then forward the call overseas in a way that is profitable for everyone.

To get started in your country poke the below link:

Germany:  www.poketalk.com/de

UK:  www.poketalk.com/uk

Israel:  www.hallomize.com

The biggest obstacle users have in upgrading their account to Pro is payment methods. While credit cards are mainstream, there are many people who simply don’t enjoy using them in a virtual way. Luckily there are some creative new start-ups out there with solutions, such as Kwedit.

Kwedit now enables people to pay for on-line services without a credit or debit card. They operate 2 revolutionary new services, Kwedit direct and Kwedit promise. We recently integrated Kwedit direct which enables payments at  local retail store such a 7-Eleven.

To use Kwedit direct simply poke on the “pay by 7-11″ link in the Add Credit section and choose you location. You will receive the address to the nearest 7-Eleven where you can pay with a printable receipt. Its that simple !

We recently sent out a survey asking users about their favorite PokeTALK services and how they can be improved. Surprisingly, the send sms feature was at the top of the list for favorite features since using a keyboard is so easy to type, and because you have the ability to add a name or a number to send as id to the receiver.

In light of the adoration for the send sms, we have made some upgrades.

You can now view the last 20 sms’s sent and can resend them by simply poking on them. This is very useful if you want to sms the same person since it adds their number into the senders list, as well as if you want to send the same sms again.

Another feature to make sending sms even easier, you can now add numbers directly from your address book. If you want to sms your entire contact list, there is also an icon to add them in 1-click. This is all built into the sms interface so if you are a big sms’er you will love it.

As always, your sms’s will be free with your bonuses so enjoy !

Many new features have been released in the past month each one to make connectivity in your life just that little bit better.

We have received raving feedback for the local numbers service which is a one of a kind feature that makes international dialing as easy as possible. You simply receive a local number in your country which is already programmed to forward to your contact overseas, so you just  dial a local number in your country to call them. For example, if you are located in the USA, you will receive a unique US based number e.g 1215939xxx for all your overseas contacts. You can store each of the new numbers as a new contact in your phone because you wont need to dial long international numbers anymore.  Since PokeTALK offers calls to over 80 countries for under 2 cents per minute, you can  speak over 5 hours for $10.

You can also program the local numbers service for reverse usage. If you are usually calling your mom in France, you can set her up with a local number in France to call you (just don’t forget you will be paying for these calls but thats a small price to hear moms voice) ! Also make sure to add the numbers you are dialing from in the ‘My registered numbers’ which allows our system to recognize your account settings.

Pin code is similar to a standard calling card, only in virtual fashion. You simply dial the selected number in your country, enter your pin code, and then have an open line to dial any country. For numbers that you call frequently the local numbers is a preffered option because it forwards you directly, but if you are calling a number less often the pin code is handy to have around.

There is also now a beautifully designed desktop widget which you may download to make web activated calls from your desktop. The widget stores all your numbers and your contacts from your account, so dialling is as easy as in the website. Once you download the widget, it will appear on your desktop and in the gadgets option (right click on desktop this is next to screen resolution).

If you are a Facebook lover, you can now connect your account through PokeTALK. By connecting you can post details of your calls to all your friends, comment on calls, and invite all your friends in Facebook to join PokeTALK.

Lastly but most important, for a little fun you can add the ‘play’ service to enjoy the classic snake game. If you are on a long call this is some guaranteed entertainment :)  Happy poking.

PokeTALK has been around for over 2 years, and every year we have revamped the site to accommodate the changing needs of our users and add more features. The first version of PokeTALK was extremely simple, with a box to enter your numbers, and some advertising. This version only had one feature, the web callback, whereby you could only call a few countries for free, because there was no pro version. That was it !

The second version was built with the idea to make the site  interactive with more features to make calling fun, as well as the Pro option allowing users to upgrade calls to all destinations. This version had many experimental ideas included such as games to play while on the call, a feed of all recent activities, and even  an option to comment on a phone number, so that when someone else called that number they would see the comment.

The latest version which is what is available today, was created with the intention to allow full customization of the interface. Today there are over 10 different features available (and growing), which you don’t need access to all the time. For this reason there is a services menu on the left side where you can add/remove  features. In addition the services can be arranged in any order that is convenient by dragging them up and down. This gives you access to all the features, all the while avoiding a cluttered interface. This version was also built upon an open API to allow any developer to build features into PokeTALK, or to use the code to build their own telephony services.

If you have any suggestions for improving the interface we are always available at pro@poketalk.com for all your feedback, because at the end of the day this service is built for you to enjoy !