FriendCaller Blog

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Apple has secured an exclusive license to use new materials of U.S. metal specialist Liquidmetal Technologies.

The alloys of Liquidmetal distinguish from conventional metals, since they show an improvement of the material properties.

The alloys are springier, harder and more unbreakable which makes them a better material to produce casings of electronical devices. Now we all can feel confident that it will not be a problem anymore in future to drop our iPhones.

Well, this makes it official – we’ve raised $2 million in Series A funding from Draper Investment Company, High-Tech Gründerfonds and Mr. Klaus Wecken, co-founder of KHK Software AG.

Raising this sort of money from a group of such respected investors can certainly be seen not only as a vote of confidence, but also as a sign that we’re on the right track.
We’re especially excited that this fresh influx of funds will help accelerate our expansion, as we have already generated more than $2 million in revenues since April 2010 and now have more than 900,000 users, with an additional 15,000 new users a day. And our FriendCaller app is one of the most popular iPhone apps – ranking among the Top 15 free social networking apps.

Much has clearly happened since the idea for C2Call was born back when our CEO Martin Feuerhahn and CTO Michael Knecht traveled the world on projects and found that each region seemed to have its own solution. That made it impossible to communicate with partners and customers on one platform. They came up with C2Call and FriendCaller to solve that issue.

Now, even someone’s grandma can use FriendCaller because we have what we always set out to develop: a free, easy-to-use and straightforward solution. By making calls free over any Internet-ready device, and by enabling social media and other sites with integrated digital voice communication, we are just getting started.

Snows of yesteryear!

Good news for consumers: all strong-selling phone suppliers determined universal chargers for the beginning of 2011. Indeed, this arrangement is only valid in the EU-States, but it is not improbable that it will expend worldwide.

The new charger is equipped with a special USB plug fitting to all marketable cell phones, which will be sold after January 2011. The universal chargers are not just more user friendly. In fact, they will be friendlier to the environment. According to statements of the EU spokesman this change will procure that 1000 tons of electrical waste will be dropped out yearly, since it will be possible in the future to continue using the chargers with a new phone.  In addition to this, households will have chance to share chargers.Nokia, Apple, LG, Motorola, Samsung and Sony Ericsson are the participating firms.

In Future, one charger will be sufficient to have enough battery to use the mobile FriendCaller App !

Microsoft Tablet PC!

Last week, Microsoft-CEO Steve Ballmer announced new Tablet PCs and explained that he wonders about high iPad , instead of windows tablet sales.

Windows Tablets were not rather successful so far and how it looks they also will not be in the future, due to the fact that Microsoft simply regards tablets as laptops with touchscreens. But actually the iPad offers less features and possibilities than a notebook. Regardless it is more successful, because it shell not be a substitute to a computer.

Apples product is meant for mobile media use, listening to music, regarding pictures, reading news or books and playing mini games. In fact, just for this features.

Actually it must definitely be clear that the iPad is no laptop-substitute, since it has no flash and no USB. Furthermore it is not possible to install software, which is not bought in the app-store. Additionally system configuration cannot be changed in greater depth.

If Steve Ballmer thinks about this, he probably will not wonder anymore why Apple’s iPad is more successful.

Thats how it works!

Google announced that there will be a licensing service for applications in the Android Market Place to shield that Apps can be copied and spread without charges.  That way Google reacts on the sustained criticism of many developers that it is to easy for users to exchange apps illegally.

In the future the licensing service will synchronize the data with the Google server to detect if users are legitimized to use the software. If the opposite is true the app will withdraw the service.

So you can be glad that the FriendCaller App, which enables you free international calls, is for free!