Want to use the world’s handiest online payment for EasyRinger? EasyRinger now supports Paypal for signups and for additional calling credit. Paypal is tightly integrated with our signup and on logged-in subscriber pages.
We’ve just released version 1.11 of our Android app. It includes a few bug fixes, plus support for more Android devices, plus a sneak peak at the new UI for our big 2.0 revision due out in the next months. The new look is more angular and simplified. We hope you like it!
By popular request, we’ve added more ways for you to pick up additional numbers and add them to your EasyRinger subscription. When you click on the “Numbers” button, you’ll see three sub-menus:
Here’s a screenshot of the “Get More Numbers Screen”. You can see that it works the same way as the signup page. Choose your country, then region, then area code, then finally the number. For the second step, just set your destination number, submit your request and your done. Your number should be set up and ready to go right away.
We’re happy to announce the release of our mobile app, version 1.1, for iPhone. With the release of the iPhone app, all of our supported platforms are now the same. On to version 2.0!
Version 1.1 gives users the ability to:
There are also several fixes and stability improvements. Users running iOS 7 can now successfully log on (can’t believe that iOS 7 broke this in our app still!). We’re really happy to get this out the door. We are now working on version 2.0 which will offer a lot of expanded functionality like: purchasing additional numbers, easily viewing call rates, access to subscription info like your current credit, and more.
This is a new app and not an upgrade to the Call Me in China app. So, all users, please uninstall the Call Me in China app and install this one.
We’re happy to announce the release of our mobile app, version 1.1, for Android. This new version gives users the ability to:
There are also several fixes and stability improvement. We’re really happy to get this out the door. We are now working on version 2.0 which will offer a lot of expanded functionality like: purchasing additional numbers, easily viewing call rates, access to subscription info like your current credit, and more.
This is a new app and not an upgrade to the Call Me in China app. So, all users, please uninstall the Call Me in China app and install this one.
We’ve got some great news: Rates to China and Hong Kong have dropped! As you may recall, there was a sharp increase in rates to China a few months ago. Well, we’re really happy to be delivering this bit of good news. Of course, there’s no guarantee that they will continue to drop or even stay steady, but we’ll take the good news when when we can get it.
Also, as part of the transition to the global service offered by our new service, EasyRinger, there are now thousands of rates to monitor. Notifications of price changes will become increasingly difficult so please use our FAQ often to check rates. For now, we’ll try to pay special attention to China and Hong Kong and let you know when there are significant rate changes.
Thanks so much for being a member and enjoy the new lower rates!
Here’s some really big news: CallMeInChina is going worldwide! And, we are therefore changing our name. CallMeInChina will soon become EasyRinger. We will expand beyond just China, Hong Kong, and select areas in the region. We are excited to be offering worldwide service to our customers. You can soon take your phone number anywhere with you worldwide, anywhere that you have phone service.
More good news is that our service will work exactly the same for all the new countries that we’ll support. And, of course, our service will continue to provide the focused clarity and low cost to China; none of that will change. You can visit our FAQ page to see which countries that we support.
The mobile apps will continue to work exactly the same although you will probably notice that they will still sport the CallMeInChina graphics. That will change with the newest release of our mobile apps which will expand the functionality and fix bugs as well.
Other changes to the service will be appearing incrementally over the next couple of weeks.
We are very excited about this next phase! We look forward to helping new customers who are long term or regular visitors to other countries stay in close contact with their friends, family, and customers as well. And, of course, our original China and Hong Kong customers will remain extra special to all of us here – you were with us from the beginning!
Stay tuned for more announcements and special offerings as we begin these changes.
You may have noticed voicemail from CallMeInChina! We quietly rolled that out a few months ago as a standard part of our service.
Automatic Voicemail:
The voicemail service will automatically pick up an unanswered call after thirty to forty seconds and your party will be directed to leave a message for you. As soon as the message is left, we’ll send you an email notification with the voicemail attached as an mp3 file.
Direct Your Calls to Voicemail:
You can also direct the service to ring straight to voicemail by changing your destination prefix to “Voicemail” as shown in the image below. After logging in on the website, click on the “Edit” link to get the “New Destination” dialog box, select “Voicemail”, then click “Save”.
Your number will then show that calls are being directed to voicemail by showing “Voicemail” followed by your number between parentheses in the “Destination Number” column:
To take calls again, simply change your destination prefix back to the country of your choosing.
Good news! To temper the rise in rates to China, we’ve been able to squeeze out a little more value for our customers in Hong Kong. Starting April 1st, our rates to Hong Kong are now below $0.03!
Oh no! We are sorry to announce that starting April 1st, our rates to China will be increasing.
Calls to China have been steadily increasing over the past six months, mostly due to increased regulation and taxes. We have done our best to absorb these costs, but they have increased rather dramatically in the past two months. China is still relatively competitive compared to many other destinations, fortunately, but they are increasing. The new monthly rate to China will be $0.058. These rates will go into effect on April 1st, 2013. We hope this will not discourage you from remaining in contact with your friends, family, and customers!
Hong Kong rates will fortunately not change. Remember, you can always visit our FAQ page for our rates.
