Call-the-Cloud

Great News! Fonolo is now available as a free application for the iPhone and iPod Touch! [iTunes link].

Tired of all the "Press 1 for this and 2 for that" nonsense you normally get when calling a company? With Fonolo, you can actually preview all of the options in a company’s phone menu before placing the call.  Just tap the option you need and Fonolo will do the rest.

If you already have a Fonolo account, your call history, bookmarks and recordings will automatically be synchronized to the iPhone application. If you’re new to Fonolo, you can create an account right on the phone.  Best of all, the Fonolo service remains free for consumers.

Home Screen

Here you can see recent calls made through Fonolo. How does this differ from a regular call history? Each entry remembers the point inside the company’s phone menu that you called. Just tap to repeat the call.

Company Screen

From here you have one-tap access to the three most common points called in the company’s phone menu. We call them “Common Calls”. You can also dial the company’s “front door” (top left button) or view its entire phone menu to initiate a Deep Dial (top right button).

Navigating a Phone Menu

To navigate through a phone menu, we invented this “split screen” approach. The top half shows you the words that you would hear at this point in the menu. The bottom half lets you navigate to any of the options available from this point.

Dialing

When you trigger a call, the Fonolo service will call the company and navigate through their phone menu. Your phone will ring shortly afterwards and, when you answer, you will be connected directly to the point you selected.