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March 20, 2012 Leave a comment
Quite a few of power Talkatone users asked us setup advise on how they can configure Google Voice account so the call will go to Talkatone first and only if Talkatone is not available would go to direct mobile number.
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January 23, 2012 2 Comments
As many users were expressing concerns through various channels about features Talkatone lacks and what should be improved we started to work on this wish list.
At first we implemented so called “Battery Saving” mode for iOS which is designed to significantly reduce battery usage on iOS, while application runs in background. In this mode Talkatone app connects to one of Talkatone servers, which access your Google Chat (part of GMail) and Google Voice accounts on your behalf as long as you stay connected. This helps to skip data which is not needed by the app in background: friends list, friend status updates, inquiries by other chat clients about features supported by the Talkatone app (server can respond itself to these inquiries) and excessive amount of “Keep Alives” sent by Google servers to check that connection is still alive.
Our servers can control what data is sent to a client, when and how often device should stay in the sleep mode as long as possible. According to a research made by Apple, it’s way more efficient to process one big chunk of data at once rather than many smaller pieces spreaded over time.
October 24, 2011 11 Comments
When we launched Talkatone almost a year ago it was viewed as a social phone. A product which allows you to have all your friends on one mobile device, call and text them, share photos.
Since the very first release back in November 2010 we’ve seen phenomenal initial growth and received tons of positive feedback from our users. Today I’m proud to announce that the final block of our early concept is here. You can share photos with your friends in Talkatone. Read more of this post
August 10, 2011 14 Comments
Hi Talkatoners! You’ve spoken, and we’ve listened! The Wait is Over! The all new Talkatone 1.0 comes to the iPad and iPad 2. Built-in Facebook Calling and Facebook Chat, as well as improved Google Talks and Google Voice integration can only mean one thing: your contacts will never be out of reach, everything at your fingertips. Read more of this post
June 30, 2011 5 Comments
Talkatone is updated again. About a week ago Google started to migrate to a new call format. Although at this point this change affects a browser-based calling only it may start affecting other clients as well.
In order to guarantee that Talkatone users won’t have issues with the calls we decided to issue an update and added support for a new call format. NOTE: previous versions don’t support new call format and may stop working when Google migrates to it. Read more of this post
June 16, 2011 Leave a comment
Back in March we started to work on call quality improvements and introduced audio compression layer. Initially it was available as part of the Talkatone Premium services because we needed controlled environment to make sure this new layer is stable, consistent and extremely fast.
We made a number of improvements to make sure that in most cases Talkatone audio compression technology significantly improves call quality and consumes less bandwidth. Talkatone users gave us a lot of feedback and helped to make this technology ready for prime time. Today we are making it audio compression enabled by default for all users on both WiFi and 3G connections. Read more of this post
June 6, 2011 3 Comments
Since we launched our feedback forum on Uservoice we got a bunch of product ideas. Some of them are big and require a lot of time to implement. Others can be done fairly quickly along with planned updates.
Talkatone v0.9.7.2 brings you call improvements, custom tunes and user interaction enhancements.
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April 9, 2011 2 Comments
As many of you know Talkatone uses new iOS4 “VoIP backgrounding” mode to keep you connected and always online.
Note: This requires multitasking-capable devices: Read more of this post
March 28, 2011 2 Comments
Advertisements as a product has a long history of big successes and epic fails. While people seem to like adwords on Google and billboards on US-101, they absolutely hate massive amounts of noisy flashy nonsensical display ads on some websites and tons of spam in their email folders.
We are no different, our taste is very common, ordinary. As a developer we try to use ads to support our infrastructure and work, but we don’t want to dislike our own product.
In our experience it’s a hit and miss. We do see how iAd works in many cases, but we can’t understand why AdMob is such a poor product and very disappointed with it’s quality. Read more of this post
March 28, 2011 3 Comments
What do you expect from a phone when you make a call or send a text message? You want to be connected to the other party of a conversation, you want to hear them well, you want your message to be delivered instantly and you want to get response back. On top of that you don’t want to struggle with product, you want it to be friendly.
Talkatone team wants the same and a bit more. We might not have an ideal product just yet, but we are committed to make the best phone application. Couple of days ago Apple review team approved our most recent update – Talkatone 0.9.6. Today you can download it from the app store. Read more of this post
