Wednesday, September 26, 2007

First SIP phone call (VoIP) on an iPhone!

Update;

SIPGate Opens iPhone SIP Applications For VoIP.

Oliver Starr of Blognation, writes that he has witnessed the first ever VoIP calls, made using on board SIP stack, from an Apple iPhone. This has been accomplished by TruPhone, a mobile VoIP solutions provider based in the UK.

Starr writes that "To say the application isn’t yet ready for prime time would be a pretty major understatement as it currently requires the use of terminal on the iPhone to tell the iPhone to use its on-board SIP stack to place the call over WiFi instead of via the SIM card. To use the terminal application, in turn requires that you first Jailbreak the phone using an application like iBrickr or iFuntastic. This is not an application for the inexperienced or the faint of heart."

But all is set to change once the company, Truphone, finish development on the application which will include simplifying the activation and adding seamless switching back and forth between VoIP when open WiFi is available and the use of the SIM card when out of WiFi range.

Of course if you don't want to mess with iPhone, you can use your similar looking iPod Touch to make VoIP (Skype) calls!

Of course the same application, IM+ for Skype, also runs on iPhone, BlackBerry RIM,Windows Mobile, Palm OS, Symbian S60, J2ME Phones.

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