Capetonians will know this feeling: you’re on De Waal Drive, having a lovely catch up on the phone with granny or trying to give directions to your lost girlfriend or trying to plan a meeting with a new client and you come around that corner and the signal drops.

Worst of all is when you’re talking to someone who is driving in Joburg. The phone signal is so bad there that calling each other back becomes a sort of game that no one really wants to win.

Luckily for the world there’s a new app that can change all this. Created by Libon (a company owned by phone network Orange), the app will allow you to make and receive calls even when there is no phone signal, so long as you are in a wi-fi area.

‘Reach Me’ could change the lives of business men and doctors on call. Your girlfriend will forever be on time for not being lost.

It works simply enough: if you have no signal on your phone and you are in a wi-fi area, connect to the wi-fi and open up Reach Me. Then, “thanks to a little VoIP magic”, you will have signal for calls.

Here’s the breakdown on the Apple App Store, although, according to Libon CEO Dominic Lobo, the app is not quite ready for iPhone (Android is good to go it seems).

Libon says the app will work in South Africa, but I highly doubt they have any idea of the quality of prehistoric internet…

[Source: Mashable]