Truphone's iPhone demonstration is genuine, and so was the Nokia N80 demo
by Tim, Both Barrels Communications, PR to Truphone
For the benefit of El Reg readers: Truphone's demonstration took place at DEMOfall 07 in San Diego (see www.demo.com). All demonstrations, by all of the nearly-70 companies there, are LIVE and REAL. Faked demonstrations are not tolerated - not by the organisers, not by the 270 VCs and not by the 80-odd invited journalists that attend. 'Live' is the essence of the event.
The N80 demonstration was also entirely genuine. Truphone doesn't "do" fake anything. Truphone for the vanilla N80 was never made available because of a persistent bug that prevented signing of the software by Symbian. A video was posted at the time of an interview with Truphone's CEO to explain why the N80 software hadn't become available as anticipated.
Yes, Truphone has developed a SIP stack for the iPhone, because like the N80 it doesn't come with one.
The video for the iPhone demo was, incidentally, shot by VoIP uber-blogger Andy Abramson of VoIPWatch - http://andyabramson.blogs.com/ - not by Truphone.
From this point onwards I am not writing on behalf of Truphone: isn't it just typical that people who make ill-informed, negative and verging-on-the-defamatory (fibs?) comments like that never quite summon the courage to identify themselves? People like you are ruining valued news sites like El Reg for its genuine readers with your anonymous drivel.
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