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Communications - Monday, October 30, 2006

Tricked Out Cell Phone Start-up TalkPlus Raises $5.5M Series A From Menlo

We have seen two new trends with cell phone tools, one is to down them down for the elderly and the other is to soup them up for the people who read Gizmodo.

In the later camp, San Mateo-based TalkPlus brings some of the advanced features that you see from VoIP companies to cell phones. That means you can have more than one phone number mapped to a single phone for one (so your home, office, and ponzi scheme numbers could all come to your cell-phone. Likewise, you could also have the ability to deliver outbound caller ID information as multiple different identities.

TalkPlus demo-ed its product at the DEMO event, and by some accounts it was a big hit. MobileCrunch documents TalkPlus' VC travails as it had to delay launch due an inability to raise funding on its time-plan. It sounds like TalkPlus didn't do a great job of communicating with testers while it was in limbo with VC funding.

Read - Big News For Talk Plus: $5.5 Million A-Round and Eminent Launch of Voice 2.0 Services (MobileCrunch)