Thrutu

Thrutu brings new fun and function to the phone call.  Share location, contacts, photos and more – all at the touch of a button.  It’s so simple that you’ll wonder why phone calls couldn’t always work this way.  

Thrutu comes with five different buttons, each a fun and easy way to share information and media during a conversation.  

- Location: callers can see each other’s position update live on a map.  

- Camera: snap and share a photo during a call

- Gallery: select and share a photo from those already stored on the phone.  

- Contacts: share contact details that will appear instantly in the other caller’s address book.  

- Prod: for the first time, you can convey touch in a phone call! Playfully poke the other person by causing their phone to vibrate during the call.  

In the future, Thrutu will offer additional buttons such as social gaming, event planning or the ability to connect instantly via favorite social media channels.  The potential for new sharing capabilities is limitless.  

Thrutu is changing the conversation.  And we’re just beginning.

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With Thrutu, simply make a phone call in the normal way and Thrutu will automatically appear.  If you both have Thrutu you'll get live updating maps and near-instant sharing.  If you don't both have Thrutu, or if you don't have simultaneous voice and data connections, then Thrutu will offer to share by SMS.  

To share using Thrutu your phone needs WiFi, 3G or 4G coverage.  Also, Thrutu needs access to the voice and data networks simultaneously, and not all networks support this - for example, in the US, Verizon and Sprint's 3G networks can't do it. (It's because they are CDMA-based.)  In these situations you can still use Thrutu to conveniently share using SMS.  

To activate Thrutu we may ask to send an SMS on your behalf from your phone.  If you are outside of the US this may be an international SMS. In most cases activation is fully automatic, but if you see an SMS with a Thrutu link in it please click it to complete activation.