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Feature: Turn Your iPod Touch into an iPhone
News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:15 PM EDT
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The iPhone and iPod touch are almost indistinguishable devices except for one major difference—you can make calls from your iPhone, and you can't from your iPod touch. For the privilege of making phone calls with your iPhone, you have to pay $100 more upfront to Apple for the device itself, plus a minimum of $60/month to AT&T for the next two years. Let's say you didn't need that kind of firepower from your iPod touch, but that you would like to use it make a phone call every now and then. You can, and today I'm going to show you how to make VoIP phone calls from your iPod touch or iPhone using a freeware application called SIP-VoIP.
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{"commentId":1695041,"authorDomain":"onlineapps"}
You know, if you use GrandCentral + this SIP thingy, you can make the calls free. Sign up for GC, make Gizmo one of your phones, and you've got a free phone.
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#1 - Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:15 PM EDT{"commentId":1695719,"authorDomain":"finalcut"}
GrandCentral is a great service. I love it.
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{"commentId":1695255,"authorDomain":"timstown"}
So not the same. Being able to make calls only at hot spots isn't that useful, in my opinion.
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- 4 votes
#2 - Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:11 PM EDT{"commentId":1695325,"authorDomain":"onlineapps"}
True... for now. Some cities do have complete wifi coverage, but it's a new thing.
Of course, by the time that happens, the iPhone will be running completely on wifi anyway...
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":1695409,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
Some cities do have complete wifi coverage, but it's a new thing
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There really are cities that don't have free Wifi coverage ? Scary.......We have had it for 2 years :-) All of Redmond to Seattle...kinda does help having a little software company in town, plus HQ for T-Mobile....Sorry...had to rub it in...
{"commentId":1695409,"threadId":"250608","contentId":"1432758","authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":1695461,"authorDomain":"timstown"}
No fair! :P
lol, I do hope free Wifi coverage for entire cities catches on. Although, I live in a rural area so maybe I'll have free Wifi by say... 2050.
{"commentId":1695461,"threadId":"250608","contentId":"1432758","authorDomain":"timstown"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":1696138,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
That should work then, hopefully Windows 7 should be getting released about the same time so a Windows iTune Version will be long waiting.....Let see my 30/60/90 mbps Fiber Fios should get here this June (they said that last year also...)
Rural area's have some big plus also....some idiots think this is a nice place to live and move here, so the house prices go nuts and same with the traffic..
{"commentId":1696138,"threadId":"250608","contentId":"1432758","authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":1697616,"authorDomain":"onlineapps"}
By then, Windows will be dead and the Nokia N810 will have replaced the iPhone. Otherwise, I will have lost my faith in the free market.
{"commentId":1697616,"threadId":"250608","contentId":"1432758","authorDomain":"onlineapps"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1697716,"authorDomain":"timstown"}
By then, Windows will be dead and the Nokia N810 will have replaced the iPhone. Otherwise, I will have lost my faith in the free market.
Your delusional. :P Windows wont die, Microsoft will figure out something, even if they have to resort to *gasp* making their own version of linux. As far as the N810 replacing the iPhone... haha, yeah right. It's not made by Apple, therefore, it can't be better then an Apple.... you know it to be so :D (sarcasm).
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":1698101,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
Nokia N810
That one will suffer the same fate as the Nokia 600, series, the 700 "Internet Terminals" as they never really get a decent GUI.
My guess....Is when Apple dumps AT&T and hopefully goes with T-Mobile that has tons of R&D money, the iPhone will grow. The other big seller (once the legal issue's get figured out) will be the Garmin NuviPhone. Garmin has never made a product that has failed, they always do a good job, it might take them a while on the NuviPhone, But my guess when they get it for real, its going to be nice.....
Microsoft will never die. People don't give them enough credit. If they have to throw out the windows core code and rewrite it, they will do it, they have the people, talent and the money.
{"commentId":1698101,"threadId":"250608","contentId":"1432758","authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1698165,"authorDomain":"finalcut"}
My pie-in-the-sky dream is that Apple will not do a vendor lock in after the AT&T deal and that they will just embrace the "unlocked" phone and let the consumer go with it.
{"commentId":1698165,"threadId":"250608","contentId":"1432758","authorDomain":"finalcut"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":1698174,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
That would be nice...Its funny, at the T-Mobile store, 3 of the staff have iPhones.....
{"commentId":1698174,"threadId":"250608","contentId":"1432758","authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":1695986,"authorDomain":"lucidcommunication"}
I've seen this in the wild with an iPod Touch that was jailbroken. Seemed to work very well, but as has been said previously here, its not so worth it to only be able to make calls at hotspots.
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- 2 votes
#3 - Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:18 PM EDT{"commentId":1696548,"authorDomain":"newsvice"}
if we can make reliable sat signals mixed with wimax ( curent FCC bids in toe for 'D-block' of signals in the US for open airwaves ) and wifi i think we can blanket the world in wireless connectivity.
this is pie in the sky thinking in know.
but i think that the WWW is going to be viewed as a utility in the near future and that will lead to more accessibility and more wide spread improvement in the dependability of these signals for our use.
outside of that what would it take to get the world talking?
peace?
o right that wont happen either
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- 2 votes
#4 - Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:13 PM EDT{"commentId":1696780,"authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
this is pie in the sky thinking in know
Yeah...About those "pie in the sky idea's" Back in 1945 when Arthur Clarke wrote his SciFi "Extra-terrestrial Relays" and actually got it published and refused to patent the idea of his his idea because nobody would believe it anyway and one of his classic comments was about that reason was "But I still think it's a good idea!"
Battling the FCC for frequency's is a whole nightmare in itself....
{"commentId":1696780,"threadId":"250608","contentId":"1432758","authorDomain":"TeddRi"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1697095,"authorDomain":"spudsstuff"}
Cool. I might give it a try.
{"commentId":1697095,"threadId":"250608","contentId":"1432758","authorDomain":"spudsstuff"}
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