Hoiio is a service which turns your outgoing calls into incoming ones; so that you pay lesser. You can check out their website here.
There are also some youtube videos to illustrate their service. Pretty interesting and funny.
This one gives you an insight on how much you can save with Hoiio. In chinese though.
It seems like a good service. It's pre-paid; whereby you have to pay using ibanking, visa/mastercard or paypal first before you can use your talk credits. Calls are charged at 3.8c a min, as compared to 16c a min from telcos.
There are also GPRS data charges per call; about 2-3kb, which amounts to about 1c - 2c per call. (Based on Singtel charges of 0.53c per kb of data)
The only drawback for me is that the other party will receive an incoming call from Hoiio's number. Hence it would be hard for him to keep track on who the caller was. Also, people may not pick up the call from an unknown number; and will call Hoiio's number back in the case of a missed call.
Hence maybe this service is good, only if the other party is aware that you are using Hoiio to call.
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Great service. Just topup $10 after finishing my $1 free credit. Waiting for my 70 bundle mins mobile plan to expire then downgrading to 30 bundle mins. Crazy telco charge at 16c/min.
Anyone used the iPhone version? Thinking of getting iPhone.
iPhone app is super neat! It s from JD the developer king. he he
This is awesome, i tried it on my iphone and it works perfectly, cheap calls anywhere. Also tried their symbian phone app and guess what? u dont even need internet to use this callback service.
Also this info (There are also GPRS data charges per call; about 2-3kb, which amounts to about 1c - 2c per call. (Based on Singtel charges of 0.53c per kb of data)) might be somewhat confusing, i think Hoiio have the sms callback service already where u dont even need to use gprs/wifi.
Thank you very much for sharing this information, my GF and I will be getting in touch more since she's staying in Canada and call per minute is like 4c/min only! what a steal!!