Advertisement: Vodafone InsideOut
by Alphaville Herald on 01/10/07 at 8:00 pm
Vodafone InsideOut lets you live both your real life and virtual life to the full. Instead of having to choose between worlds, keep your second life and real life connected through your mobile. Click here for more.
Use the Vodafone InsideOut HUD to call or text other Second Life avatars, and Vodafone will connect the call or text to your real mobile, with your virtual identities intact. Even when your friends aren’t logged into Second Life, you can still call and text them, equally, when you’re offline, they can still contact you using your Vodafone InsideOut telephone number.
Alazarin
Oct 2nd, 2007
Interesting idea, but Chad Statosky had in-world phones going with his Nexcom service over 2 years ago. OK, his were text-only but then again he didn’t have the full weight of a major multinational behind him. 300L$ per minute and/or message? That’s over 1 US$. And well over the maximum price limit for international voice calls withing the EU as recently laid down by EU regulators. I wonder how long it’ll take before the EU regulators catch up with Vodafone over their latest customer scalping scam?
Bruno Rodrigues
Oct 2nd, 2007
@Alazarin: thank you for noticing that the L$300 comment is not perfectly understood on the community. That line is just the usual legalese mambo-jambo and means that if we increase the price, it will only go up to L$300. Currently you get an initial L$1000 credit and calls/messages are rated at L$10/msg or per min, meaning that everything is currently for free but the usage is capped. After the initial feedback period we will probably either increase the credit or reduce the price to allow further usage.
DaveOner
Oct 2nd, 2007
Giving people in SL the ability to contact me IRL?? Sorry, I’ll keep you guys in my box where I like you!
shockwave yareach
Oct 2nd, 2007
Those people who need my contact data have it already. If they need to call me RL, they call me RL. I’m with DaveOner on this – unless you are in my circle of friends, stay in the box.
Although I do admit it would be fun to make a call to a pizza place in and ask for delivery to Mud. Is there a virtual delivery guy from PapaJohns in SL?
moses
Oct 2nd, 2007
i am in agreement with DaveOner. it is mainly the best reason i do not use the voice in sl. sl and rl are seperate worlds and i want to keep it that way. beside that, i do not want to listen how many times little boys can use “f word” in a single sentence. it makes my sl experience very nasty. i already have enough fools in my life. no more is needed.