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We have good news.

Last year, Hoiio gave free registration credit only to users from Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, USA, Canada and Australia. Now, we have extended the promotion and give free registration credit to users from all over the world (except for China). With the free credit, your first call via Hoiio Phone will be on us.

Hoiio Phone promises good call quality at a very low rate. Definitely, our internet call rate is lower than Skype Out, and our international SMS charges are lower than what mobile operators used to charge you. So, if you have any friends who call overseas and they have not used Hoiio yet, please help them to save some money by telling them to use Hoiio. Also, don’t forget to add: When they register to Hoiio, their first call is FREE. Click here to see our rates.

New Year always gives new hope, new beginning, new aspirations, new challenges to overcome and more dreams to fulfil. At Hoiio, we are always grateful and inspired by all your suggestions, feedback and even criticisms which help and push us to meet the demands of our ever growing users. Our commitment to give our users a WOW experience has always been our top priority. We are highly motivated to give our users more exciting and useful features and innovations.

As year 2012 is fast approaching, let us give you a sneak peek of some of the things to look forward to with Hoiio.

• Hoiio Live. The app that will make your phone book comes alive. Without a hassle, you will get the most updated contact details of your friends and business partners.
• More Hoiio Numbers in other countries. Now we sell Singapore and HK numbers. We will add our inventories from other countries like Australia, etc.
• Hoiio Business for everyone: easily create a Hoiio Business account and get your office mates to benefit from Hoiio.
• More apps to increase your productivity in the office.

These are just 4 of  Hoiio’s long list of  things we are working on. More innovations and technologies await you as we share another year together and more fruitful years to come.

Cheers to 2012!

Hoiio Team

As we celebrate this joyous season and as we prepare for the coming year, this is the best time to look back and be thankful for the fruitful year of partnership with you. With this, allow us to share some of the things we have done and accomplished throughout the year. All of these may have not been possible without your honest feedback, helpful suggestions and most of all, your unwavering support.

1. Launched new products: Hoiio Chat, Hoiio API, and Hoiio Genie.
2. Slashed Call/SMS rates, thus offering the cheapest rates in the market today.
3. Improved Internet call experience on Android.
4. Provided Top Up receipt, you can ask reimbursement from your company.
5. Extended communication channel with you via Facebook , Twitter, and suggestion box.
6. First born app from the Hoiio API program, named Textuate co-created by the good folks from SmartLoans.
7. Awarded as one of the Top 50 Applications in Asia. Thanks to you! :)

Again, we want to extend our heartfelt gratitude for sharing all these milestones with us and we look forward to serving you for many years to come.

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!

Cheers!
Hoiio

Sending SMS is getting cheaper. Use Hoiio when you send SMS to the 12 countries below, and you will only pay 5 cents/SMS or lower.

• Singapore
• Philippines (3 cents/SMS)
• Australia
• Canada
• USA
• HK
• India
• Indonesia
• Japan
• Malaysia
• Thailand
• Vietnam

If you don’t find your destination above, don’t worry. We’re going to add more countries in the list. Drop us a comment at support@hoiio.com.

A little over a year ago, Hoiio introduced Internet Call (Beta), a cheaper alternative to call friends and loved ones through the use of VOIP technology.  Since then, we have logged more than 300,000 minutes of internet calls!  This is absolutely encouraging to us and we’d like to extend our deepest gratitude to our customers for making this possible.   This year, we’ve decided to put more icing to the cake and we are excited to share with you what we have been doing for the past few months to enhance your internet call experience.

1. New Year, New Look!

Charles Lamb once said that New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.  We think that it is also true for Hoiio! In this new release, we’ve given the Internet Call module a facelift.  We’ve also added a new feature in this screen where the quality of your call is measured real time.

2. New Year, New Upgrade

In using the new Internet Call, you will immediately notice the improvement from the old one.  We have updated some modules to reduce the amount of outside noise during a conversation.  You will also notice a significant improvement in the voice quality.

3. New Year, New Feature

We do not want to charge you for something you won’t enjoy.  And so prior to starting an Internet Call, we do a quick check of your network connection to see if it is good enough to initiate an Internet call.

Hoiio Phone v2.2 for Android is now available in the Android Market.   If you haven’t done so, now’s a good time to download the app!

Oh!  And did we mention that we’ll be very happy to interact with you and know what you think? Come and join our Facebook page!

Cheers!
Hoiio Team