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Voice Over IP on the iPhone

Wednesday September 26, 2007 4:58 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
Endgadget posts a video demo of an iPhone successfully making a phone call over IP. The demo was provided by a company called Truphone who announced today. From the press release:


1. Many people have called for true VoIP calling on Apple's iPhone. Truphone will today prove that it is possible using the iPhone's in-built Wi-Fi capability.
2. Truphone's demonstration will comprise two iPhones connected to Wi-Fi on the DEMOfall 07 stage. A VoIP call will be initiated from one handset, routed via Wi-Fi and the Internet to Truphone's servers, and then back again to the access point and onwards to the destination handset -- a 100% IP phone call.
3. Today's event will be a live demonstration only and is not a commercial launch of Truphone on the iPhone.
4. Truphone does not need to unlock the SIM in order to operate its service for the iPhone.


Voice over IP (VOIP) allows users to use the internet to transmit their voice calles, bypassing AT&T's cellular network (and billing).
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psychofreak
Posted: 57 months ago
Awesome, not too long until this is easy...hopefully by the time the UK gets the phone :)
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nismo
Posted: 57 months ago
i just read this on engadget and it is soo friggin cool! I can't wait!
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Telp
Posted: 57 months ago
This is great!! True voIP...
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aerospace
Posted: 57 months ago
me thinks at&t isn't happy about this development
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Mydel
Posted: 57 months ago
I think AT&T is aware that iPhone is a full blown computer, and they are not able to stop this kind of development. And frankly speaking I guess Apple is silently cheering :rolleyes:
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ivi7
Posted: 57 months ago
This was one of those things I was sure the iPhone couldn't do.
I am really happy and excited about this development.
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dvkid
Posted: 57 months ago

This is great!! True voIP...


Not quite. Though I can overlook the length it takes to call out now as that will surely be remedied soon. However there have been no inroads made towards receiving calls via VoIP. Not to mention you would also be unable to utilize AT&Ts Voicemail with this method at all, let alone Visual Voicemail. Unfortunately, until AT&T (or T-Mobile) is willing to release this as a product it will not function as well as it should and thus will not permeate the primary population.
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TXCraig
Posted: 57 months ago

Unfortunately, until AT&T (or T-Mobile) is willing to release this as a product it will not function as well as it should and thus will not permeate the primary population.


T-Mobile already has this service that will switch calls from WiFi to Cell and back again as you travel from WiFI AP to another. The calls made on the WiFi network are free. They have 2 phones currently that do this. It was released in June just before the iPhone started selling.
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bob122989
Posted: 57 months ago
I'd be extremely interested in finding out how capable the ipod touch would be with this here method.

Unless it uses some fancy workaround on files that wouldn't be present on the ipod touch.

Just a thought.
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RichP
Posted: 57 months ago

I'd be extremely interested in finding out how capable the ipod touch would be with this here method.

Unless it uses some fancy workaround on files that wouldn't be present on the ipod touch.

Just a thought.


No Mic, No speaker, No phone.

VoIP will be an iphone reality from Apple/ATT, just not anytime soon.
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