Cellphone Star

If you’ve got family and friends sprinkled about the globe, you know that the richness of these contacts loses luster if you can’t regularly keep in touch. Though there are excellent solutions out there–local-access calling cards, VoIP on the PC, VoIP phones from Vonage or Skype, and local-number services like Talkster (review)–they require your presence at home, new hardware, or wasting precious seconds with mile-long pin numbers or droning-on ads.
Challenging the herd is EQO (pronounced “echo”), a communication service that offers a simple, fast, and affordable solution for international outreach on your cell phone. Talk time and texting are free between EQO members, and calls cost as low as two cents per minute for everyone else, about the same rate as VoIP-to-phone calling and competitive calling cards. EQO’s international texting goes for ten or fifteen cents, depending on the countries of destination and departure.
User experience
The graphically-appealing app is divided into [...]

Original post by Jessica Dolcourt