{"id":207,"date":"2008-12-09T13:01:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T13:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2008-12-09T13:01:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T13:01:41","slug":"ah-so-tru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"Ah, So Tru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truphone.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-208\" title=\"truphone\" src=\"http:\/\/brendanmitchell.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/truphone.gif\" alt=\"truphone\" width=\"204\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOK, everybody has heard of <a title=\"Skype\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Skype<\/a>, (if you haven&#8217;t, then what cave have you been hiding in?) but now there&#8217;s a new VoIP kid on the block <a title=\"TruPhone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truphone.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Truphone<\/a>. Unlike Skype, Truphone doesn&#8217;t offer instant messaging &amp; online chat, an answering service or even a desktop based application&#8230; so why bother with it then? Well unlike Skype, Truphone has it&#8217;s sights purely on the mobile handset market, this is an area Skype&#8217;s own developments have been somewhat lacklustre over the years, and will be a market that will dwarf the desktop in years to come.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love Skype, I use it everyday, it&#8217;s become our defacto way of communicating in our business, but Truphone looks promising, plus a bit of healthy competition never hurt anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, everybody has heard of Skype, (if you haven&#8217;t, then what cave have you been hiding in?) but now there&#8217;s a new VoIP kid on the block Truphone. Unlike Skype, Truphone doesn&#8217;t offer instant messaging &amp; online chat, an answering service or even a desktop based application&#8230; so why bother with it then? Well unlike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[60,61,62],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff","tag-skype","tag-truphone","tag-voip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}