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Great news! After many months of perspiration and inspiration, today we're launching our next generation application at the Future of Mobile conference today in London. In addition to a stylish new design, the new version has lots of features that make finding and keeping in touch with friends really easy - including a personal newsfeed, a list of who's online, sharing of status and location, a new extended profile with lots more fields, improved user search, email and SMS! Plus the app has all the existing private messaging, news, blogging, photo-sharing and mobile IM features you know and love. You can read all about it on our features page - have you noticed our brand new web site too?

The new application is already available for all of the following handsets, and we'll be adding more every week:

• Nokia 3110c
• Nokia 3109c
• Nokia 3500c
• Nokia 5200
• Nokia 5300
• Nokia 6085
• Nokia 6086
• Nokia 6126
• Nokia 6131
• Nokia 6133
• Nokia 6233
• Nokia 6234
• Nokia 6300
• Nokia 7373
• Nokia 7390
• Nokia 8600 Luna
• Sony Ericsson K530
• Sony Ericsson K550
• Sony Ericsson K610
• Sony Ericsson K618
• Sony Ericsson K770
• Sony Ericsson K790
• Sony Ericsson K800
• Sony Ericsson K810
• Sony Ericsson K818
• Sony Ericsson S500
• Sony Ericsson T650
• Sony Ericsson T658
• Sony Ericsson V630
• Sony Ericsson W350
• Sony Ericsson W380
• Sony Ericsson W580
• Sony Ericsson W610
• Sony Ericsson W660
• Sony Ericsson W710
• Sony Ericsson W830
• Sony Ericsson W850
• Sony Ericsson W880
• Sony Ericsson W888
• Sony Ericsson Z555
• Sony Ericsson Z610
• Sony Ericsson Z710

If you're a new user, just go to the homepage to get a link to download the application or download to PC. If you're an existing user, go to http://m.trutap.com/u on your mobile phone browser to check whether the new app is available for your phone, then follow the instructions for upgrading.

We'd like to hear what you think - so get Trutapping and send us your comments on the forums or by filling in our contact form. We hope you love it!

Doug will be attending the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Macau on 18th-20th November, and will be speaking at the Mobile Innovation Marketplace on the afternoon of Tuesday 18th. If you'd like to arrange a meeting while Doug is there just get in touch.

Look out for Doug Richard our CEO and Chairman at the FT World Telecoms Conference in London. Doug is chairing the morning session and Vinny Hayes will be working the crowds sporting his new Thailand sun tan.

We've just added Facebook Chat, Google Talk, Rediff Bol and Jabber instant messaging to Trutap, along with the existing MSN, Yahoo!, AIM and ICQ messenger services. What's more, there's no need to upgrade - just go to the IM section on the Trutap app, choose 'Add IM account' from the menu, and you'll see the list now includes all these additional providers. Add your account details and get chatting, wherever you are and from the comfort of your phone!

We're gong to be adding more IM services to the service over the coming weeks, including MySpace, Gadu-Gadu, LiveJournal IM, Bonjour, Groupwise, IRC, XMPP, Sametime and Zephyr - so keep an eye out!

Just in - Carl and Vinny have won the best presentation award at the Symbian Smartphone Show, after presenting Trutap in the speednet competition. Fantastic!

Our CTO Carl will be presenting Trutap in the SpeedNet@DevFest session at the Symbian Smartphone Show on Tuesday 21st October. He'll also be running a session at mobile Jam on the coolest recent mobile phone developments, along with Caroline Lewko, so if you're attending feel free to drop by and say hello.

Good news for bloggers who use My Opera or Wordpress - both of these services are now supported by Trutap, so you can post updates and photos from your phone. To start blogging from Trutap just add your account details in the usual way - go to 'My Web', choose 'Set up account' from the Menu, enter your blog details and you're all set.

Today's a big day for us as we've just launched our global content platform, Hornet, and its first publisher partner, Goal.com. You can now get English Premiership stories from goal.com delivered to your Trutap inbox at least three times a day, giving you a hat-trick of all the top football action with detailed articles and related images. Trutappers across the world can subscribe to the messages for free, and there's more coming - we'll be launching a host of exciting new content services in the next few weeks. Stay tuned!

P.S. Here's the news on Techcrunch UK and the Mobile Industry Review.

Luke Brynley-Jones, our Head of Product, is at the IIR Converged Messaging Summit in Munich this week, speaking on the topic “Overcoming the challenges to optimise your converged messaging offering”. The conference takes place at the Holiday Inn, and covers the gamut of messaging from IM, SMS and MMS through to IP-based messaging and social networking messaging - so it's right up Trutap's street. We suspect the attractions of the Oktoberfest might also be right up Luke's street, though he'd be well advised to steer clear of anyone who fancies a game of Hau-den-Lukas ("Hit-the-Luke").

We're delighted to announce that Sony Ericsson is now promoting Trutap to users all around the world from the Sony Ericsson Fun & Downloads portal. You can access the portal both on your phone and on the web, and you'll find Trutap in the software section under "Free stuff". We're on the top row too - very exciting!