That's why I keep telling the people that are participating in our invitation-only beta test. We have been testing the service with some fifty people, and there'll be more. I'm not sure when we'll open it up to the public, but I'm sure very excited about it.
Almost everybody has a cell phone these days, with Europe and Far East being by far ahead of the US in the market. Although technologies are coming about to allow consumers to use their cell phones to connect to the Internet, at least here in the US consumers are far from comfortable doing so, set aside the fact that services are not reliable enough. So accessing the Internet information on a cell phone is still a couple of years away.
But voice is a different story. People are used to making phone calls, and are used to using touch tones to access services over the phone, such as checking bank account balances. Frucall does the same: It leverages the familiar, simple voice/touch-tone interface, but brings real time information right from the Internet to the consumer, when and where they need it most.
Posted by nasser at February 16, 2006 09:45 PM