VoIP for IPhone

Source: MyVoIPProvider.com - Author: Audrey, September 16, 2008

The 3G iPhone has people scratching and biting to download the latest applications designed specifically for the elite few who were fortunate enough to get their hands on the phone. Those who are savvy enough know that if a traditional mobile phone call drops then the same call can be attempted via VoIP on an internet signal. Apple has opened the floodgates and asked developers everywhere to help develop new applications for the phone and developers are paying special attention to VoIP applications.

More than 60 million new iPhone applications were downloaded in 30 days and I bet a great deal of those downloads included applications that enable VoIP phone calls. Go ahead and make yourself comfortable while we review a few VoIP applications for iPhone.

Let’s start with iCall, not only does their name conjure up thoughts of making cheap calls on an iPhone, iCall functionality enables incoming and outgoing calls via a WiFi connection. Their super-cool feature is that the program will switch calls to a VoIP connection when a WiFi connection is detected. Can you imagine what AT&T must be thinking…”Hey! Wait a minute!” The marriage of AT&T and Apple could have AT&T thinking that Apple is cheating on them by allowing VoIP phone calls which means AT&T can’t charge their usual rates unless of course they have figured out a way to only allow calls over AT&T cable signals (trust me, they can’t do this).

Then there is Truphone, providers of quality service for the iPhone with great design and functionality the special feature offered by Truphone is the strong integration with iPhone’s GUI (Graphical User Interface). Truphone lets you see and search stored contacts and access easy to understand account information right on the phone. One must however ask, how do VoIP Truphone calls sound? Apparently, Truphone passed tests with flying colors and calls were made and received without delay. Truphone allows users to call one another freely and naturally there are no roaming charges either. The download of the program is free from the iTunes App Store and after setup there is an introductory free credit so you can test it out for yourself.

PhoneGnome service inclues many easy features but what we like most on the iPhone is that PhoneGnome boasts the convenient visual voicemail feature and 1-click calling.

Talkety is a web based application whereby users can simply log into the Talkety website type in their telephone number and the telephone number of the person you would like to call and Talkety will connect you both via the internet like your own personal secretary. Talkety also claims to save international users 85 – 90%. They also offer voice conferencing with up to 50 participants but that requires a Talkety pro account. Another cool feature of Talkety is the ability to sync your contacts with the Mac OSX Address book.

Jajah is known for being a supporter of the iPhone and is similar to Talkety in that calls are connected over the internet, just enter Grandma’s number and your local telephone number and Jajah will connect you to Grandma.

Thankfully, opening up application development and the increase of competition means big phone companies like AT&T have to open up and accept that VoIP phone calls are here to stay even on an iPhone.

Fring launches iPhone VoIP client

There's been considerable talk about VoIP services one the iPhone. With the release of the iPhone SDK, it was just a matter of time before native applications for the iPhone started cropping up. And, it looks like leading VoIP provider fring has managed to beat out the competition by launching the first ever VoIP application for the iPhone.

fring says that their natively installed VoIP client for the iPhone is a "special pre-release R&D version of fring" created in conjunction with the Holon Institute of Technology academic research labs. The point of this release is to get feedback on the application in preparation for a full-blown, final release version later this year. You'll need a jailbroken iPhone and access to Installer.app (this is a native application, after all), so get to jailbreaking your iPhone if you haven't already done so.
You'll need to add fring's iPhone application repository ("http://fring.com/iphone.xml") to your "Sources" list. Just fire up Installer.app, hit the "Sources" button located along the bottom edge of the Installer window. Hit the "Edit" button in the upper right corner, and then hit "Add" in the upper left corner. When prompted, enter "http://fring.com/iphone.xml" into the URL field.

You'll see a new application category named "Fring" in your main Installer.app window. Click that and install the package - you'll be off and VoIP-ing in no time with fring on your iPhone!

Go install fring and enjoy all that fring-y VoIP goodness.

Thank: IntoMobile

VoIP phone on iPhone from Truphone

The British are bringing VOIP to your iPhone.

In a demonstration at this year's DEMOfall07, British VOIP provider Truphone showed conventioneers how to use the iPhone's built-in Wi-Fi capability to make calls over Truphone's VOIP network. Truphone representatives demonstrated how a call can be initiated from a handset and then routed to Truphone's server via Wi-Fi.

Truphone spokesman Tim Donnelly Smith emphasized that the event at DEMOfall07 was only a demonstration and was not intended to be a commercial launch. He also said that the program is a native application that is installed through third-party application installers, and does not require cracking the iPhone's SIM card. This is significant in the wake of Apple's declaration earlier this week that "many of the unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet" could render the device "permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed." Several iPhone users have reported that installing Apple's iPhone 1.1.1 update rendered their unlocked iPhones useless.

Thank : PC World

:: MSN, Yahoo Chat on iPhone ::

Ebuddy pride themselves with work on the multi network version of pplication as well as availability on 300+ mobile phone types. With the release of the iPhone Ebuddy of course feel that it can not be left behind.Europe, The Netherlands in particular, still has no concrete dates as to when the iPhone is going to be released, so Ebuddy had to resort to eBay and earlier this week Ebuddy finally received very own iPhone.

After some creative engineering to get the unit working (no AT&T in europe) AJAX guys took it.After a lot of playing with it work Ebuddy are happy to announce the availability of one of the most advanced web-based multi network chat clients for the iPhone. Just point your iPhone to eBuddy (http://www.ebuddy.com) and you will be sent to a special landing page from where you can enter application in iPhone mode and chat using MSN, AIM or Yahoo.

This version is marked as Alpha quality (or experimental if you will), so if you find any bugs or experience strange behavior, please let us know via feedback@ebuddy.com or press the feedback button in the application itself.

Placing a JAJAH call with the Apple iPhone

Regular Pocket Picks readers will know that we are crazy about both the iPhone and mobile VoIP apps. Imagine our excitement then (some of us still haven’t stopped jumping up and down clapping our hands together and grinning like porcelain dolls) at finding out about Jajah, the iPhone’s first VoIP client.

The application works through the Safari browser and though sign up is free, it is not a completely costless service. Still, after typing a number into Jajah you can make international calls for 3 cents per minute instead of AT & T’s 23 cents per minute price and calls between Jajah users are free.

What is particularly interesting is that because this service is browser based, it sidesteps a lot of the legal wrangling that many mobile VoIP software providers are finding themselves in with the big hitting carriers just now. Let’s hope there is plenty more of this sort of thing available when the iPhone finally ships in Europe.

Thank : Youtube & Pocketpicks