Archive for October, 2008

pre-paid roaming data

So you have a shiny new mobile phone that lets you read your email and browse the web and you take it overseas with you. But when you get home you get hit with a phone bill that costs more that your entire trip, in fact you could buy a new car as well and still have change.

Sadly, this is not uncommon so we have introduced pre-paid roaming data for all our global SIMs. Pre-paid data means that you never get a nasty surprise – we make sure you can’t spend more than than your credit balance and cut off the data when your balance reaches zero. Then you can decide if you want to spend more, or not.

More Travel Journal improvements

We continue to roll out new features and improvements to the Travel Journal based on our road map and feedback from customers.

We have improved the entry editor with a much easier location editor. You can now search for a location by name, or click on a map to set your location.

Our cell tracking and mapping has also been greatly improved and now the majority of phone activities will get mapped to a location – generally at the level of a small town or a suburb.

We have also added points of interest which cover areas such as cities so when your friends see that you are in “Quartiere Otto, Italy” they can see that you are in Milan. We are using these points of interest to better match photos to posts and provide links to information about those places.

We have also made it easier to reply to text messages that friends send from the web site. Now friends can enter their mobile phone number and the text message will appear on your phone with the sender set to their number.