The Rebtel Giveaway Is Over – Here Are The Winners.. June 10th, 2011  

If you like us on Facebook, you probably know that we organized a sweepstakes for you guys a few weeks back that went under the name ‘The Rebtel Giveaway’.

If you signed up for it, you had the chance  to win some sweet prizes, namely a brand new HTC Wildfire Smartphone bundled with our international calling app for Android and $100 worth of Rebtel creditet deposited straight to your account.

Today, The Rebtel Giveaway has come to an end (don’t worry, we’ll announce a new one soon with even cooler prizes) and we’re thrilled to announce the winners (you’ll all be contacted via email within short).

Grand Prize
Three lucky winners get a brand new HTC Wildfire Smartphone with our award-winning international calling app for Android and $100 worth of Rebtel credit. The lucky winners are:

Penny Pavlicka, US
Ruchi Baloo, Germany
Javier Eduardo Soriano Zabala, Spain

Consolation Prize
Seven winners are awarded with a sweet consolation prize of $100 worth of Rebtel credit deposited straight to your Rebtel account. The winners are:

Cameron Battle, United States
Dawn Walsh, Canada
Devine Van Hoorn, Canada
Inge-Lise Bugge, Denmark
Omid Lashgari, United States
Didi Matregrano, United States
Yang Liu, Germany

A big thanks to each and everyone of you that took part in our giveaway and a big congratulations to the winners! As mentioned, we’ll be back really soon with a new competition that you’re absolutely going to love.

Happy calling!

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Rebtel For Android In Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA Campaign March 15th, 2011  

XPERIA World Screen

A little while ago, we were contacted by the nice folks over at Sony Ericsson. They told us they were in the midst of planning an extensive campaign for their brand new XPERIA line of Android Smartphones. They said they wanted to include a few hand-picked apps they felt added value to the user experience on their new devices and could bring out the best out of the hardware as well as the software.

To our great joy, our very own Rebtel for Android was selected to be featured in the campaign among other greats in the likes of Foursquare, Photobucket, Justin.TV and Facebook Location.

As a part of their marketing strategy to, Sony Ericsson created a very cool micro-site in the shape of a virtual world called XPERIA. In the world of XPERIA, you can explore neighborhoods in a SIMS-like city and discover different apps in each area (the Rebtel app can be found downtown just next to the skateboard ramp).

In addition to this, our app will also be featured in Sony Ericsson’s other online, outdoor and TV XPERIA advertising across Bulgaria, Cyprus, Macedonia, Israel, Romania, Turkey and Greece.

Sounds cool? Head over to Sony Ericsson and start exploring the world of XPERIA.

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SMS And Collect Replies In The Rebtel Android App November 9th, 2010  

Did you know that we have a feature called Collect Reply? It’s available in our WebSMS service and recently, it has also been made available for our Android and iPhone app users. In this post we’re going have a closer look at the Collect Reply feature and show you how to use it.

SMS Compose Screen

SMS Compose Screen

After launching the app, tap on the SMS tab, select one or more recipients from your regular Android address book and then start composing your message.

When that’s done and you’ve pressed the ‘Send’ button, you will get an option to include a short URL in your SMS message. Your friend on the receiving end can then click the link and see it open in their mobile browser.

Attach Collect Link Screen

Attach Collect Link Screen

Just as the word “Collect” entails, the reply is completely free of cost for your friend as you, being the good friend that you are, pick up the tab for it. Naturally, if you don’t want to pay for your friends reply, you can simply select the ‘Send Without Link’ option.

Collect Reply View

Collect Reply Screen

This is the view your friend will see at the receiving end after reading your SMS message and clicking on the reply link. On this mobile web page, your friend is able to write their reply message and send it directly to your phone. As you included a Collect Reply link in your original message, the cost for the reply sent by your friend will paid for by you.

To avoid any nasty surprises, please be sure that your friend replying to you knows that unless they’ve got a flat rate plan, they will most likely be charged by their carrier when opening the reply page.

Thanks for reading and happy texting!

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Free International Calling Made Easy With Rebtel For Android May 26th, 2010  

A few months ago, all of us here at the Rebtel office were in serious scramble mode to finish an early, yet demoable version of our first app for the Android platform. The reason, in addition to huge user demand, was the news we had received of us being accepted as one of the presenting companies at this years DEMO Spring 2010 conference. We were very excited, and with the great honor that comes with being accepted to a reputable event like DEMO, we really wanted to make an impact.

Rebtel for Android Home Screen

By comparison to the “walled garden” of the iPhone platform, Android OS offers an unprecedented level of openness that caters to deep integration of third-party applications with the native device functionality. An example of an app that harnesses that openness, could for instance, be one that handle all your international calls. Imagine if it could intercept all your international calls that you make from your regular address book or dial pad on your Android phone, and connect them via a cheaper service, such as Rebtel, instead of your pricey carrier…

Sounds like an app that would come in handy, doesn’t it? Well, as it happens, this is exactly what we decided to do.

As the 1.0 version of the app went live on Market just a few days ago, Rebtel for Android has now been stripped of its previous beta label, and in this post I will tell you a bit more about two key features. If you’re an Android user and have been longing for a nifty app that could save you money on your international calls , this post should make you ecstatic.

Interception of Your Internationals Calls

After you downloaded the app from, the only thing you have to do to start using is flicking the green On/Off switch. Once that’s done, Rebtel for Android will run in the background and stand-by waiting for you to either dial an international number from the regular dial pad on your phone, or pick a friend with an international number from your address book.

Once a number is dialed, a local number is instantly generated in the background and your call is connected via Rebtel instead of your regular carrier, with savings of up to 90% as a result.

Seamless Rebtel Free Calls

If you’ve read this post up until this point (thank you), but are yet to become ecstatic, the next feature is a sure bet. Namely: Fully automated Rebtel Free Calls to Android devices running our app.

This is how it works: When you select a friend to call that also happens to be a Rebtel and has our app running, the call will automatically become a Rebtel Free Call. That means that you pay nothing for the international part of the call to Rebtel, and if you have inclusive local minutes in your monthly plan, you pay nothing to your regular carrier for the local part of the call either. Pretty great.

An incoming Rebtel Free Call

Now, why is this such a big deal you might ask (except for the fact that you can make free international calls without WiFi)?

See, usually, the process of making a Free Call with Rebtel is made up of you having to wait for your friend to pick, asking him to hang up and then call you back on the number displayed on his phone while you stay on the line. What the Android app does is that it eliminates all these fiddly steps of making a Free Call and fully automates it.

Sounds like something you want to try? Download the app from Android Market (click on the link from your phone) and be sure to tell us what you think in the comments, on Facebook or on Twitter.

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