“Blognation has just learned of (and witnessed) the first ever VoIP calls made from an Apple iPhone. TruPhone, the company that is slowly but surely bringing VoIP and affordable international calling to mobile phones all over the world has just added a very important feather to its cap with the alpha-alpha version of what’s sure to be a major buzz-generating application,” Oliver Starr reports for Blognation.
TruPhone “tells me that it intends to 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. It is important to note that it is NOT NECESSARY to break the SIM lock to use TruPhone’s iPhone VoIP application,” Starr reports.
“Since the iPhone can use 802.11N TruPhone running on iPhone over WiFi should actually perform better than the popular T-Mobile [At Home] service,” Starr reports.
More in the full article here.
@Ted Rogers
The iPhone will come to Canada, Ted. You can be a player, or you can sit on the side lines. Your call.
Rogers = Greed
There are already two existing Voip protocols for the iPhone. Look at:
http://beta.talkety.com/ – a German call back service which works nicely and
http://s4iphone.com/index_iphone.jsp which works beautifully with Skype
In addition the Apple iPhone tech page says the following:
Capacity
8GB flash drive1
Display
3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen multi-touch display
480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 ppi
Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously
Operating system
OS X
GSM
Quad-band (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
Wireless data
Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
EDGE
Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
As you see – nothing about an 802.11n standard
C’mon Ted. Play ball. It could pass you by if you’re not careful. Unless, of course, you think you’re smarter than all the other Telecom CEO’s.
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Don’t forget that we’re about half the cell-phone market of California. Do you think Apple really cares that much about Canada?
Just look at all the business that will move from Bell to Rogers when you take on the IPhone!!!
“”Since the iPhone can use 802.11N TruPhone running on iPhone over WiFi should actually perform better than the popular T-Mobile [At Home] service,” Starr reports.”
Come again? According to Apple’s website, iPhone only has 802.11b/g NOT 802.11N.
Rogers,
Would love to see them wake up. They appear to behave like Bronfman…history says the world will pass them by.
magic word : “history”
If Ted doesn’t play ball with Steve on the iPhone, then he can expect a surprise in his future. Canada may be a small market, but to not have the iPhone means we will stand out for the wrong reason in Apple’s eyes.
After having just signed up to a Rogers bundle, I can certainly understand it if Apple wanted nothing to do with Rogers for customer service and integration issues. My order required more than a dozen phone calls (it was an order placed online), multiple technicians at my house at the same time, six phones being sent and charged to my account, and absolutely terrible customer service (I still haven’t got my email configured because the site took me to an Windows only download). When I think about adding an iPhone to that plan, at home, online activation, I know it will never work.
Magic word: Society – as in society would be better off without Rogers
Rogers’ megalomanic media cartel has the added problem, beyond the special interest needs that comes from kickbacks from the handset makers *cough*RIM*cough* in that it fancies its self as a retail media content provider that is in direct competition to say iTunes. Although I’m sure they would love to have Roger’s costumers using Apple’s new trendy phone where they charge Canadians a premium for a data plan and base the pricing structure on the CAD exchange of 5 years ago, like the silly record labels, customers circumventing Rogers/Fido retail content for ringtones, music, movies, etc etc is difficult for them to swallow.
I can kinda’ understand why a few people out there would think that I have a hidden agenda in my crusade against this iPhune thing. But, who can question the motives of the world’s most reputable technology journalist, John Dvorak! John used to write for several defunct Mac rags (until he saw the light). He has recently drawn heavy fire from the iTards for his enlightening article “Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone!” I quote:
“The keyboard is a disaster, and people are going to return the phone in droves!”
“It’s time to short Apple stock!”
“Company risks its reputation in competitive business!”
This is my favorite one and the most intelligent suggestion that he makes to Apple:
“If it’s smart it will call the iPhone a ‘reference design’ and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else’s marketing budget.”
I have thought long and hard about this idea, I truly believe that this is the only way to save Apple at this juncture. I will go one further and offer the services of Microsoft itself! It makes sense, if any company can make this thing work it’s Microsoft! We saved Apple’s butt once before, we can do it again.
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
I’ve been using the truphone application on my nokia n95 for several months now. The fact it’s still there after several months should be a clue; In fact, I think it’s a superb application and I’d recommend it to anyone with a suitable phone.
Call quality is superb, switching between pre-registered hotspots is automatic and unnoticed. I haven’t tried it with any commercial WiFi hotspots, just my domestic Home WiFi and my friends. This is a good thing, Truphone know what they’re doing, IMHO.
MDN Word ‘Season’, as in a Season For Change. nice.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s 802.11 g or b or n unless you have an impossibly fast Internet connection.
Unless I’m missing the point.
Come up with a microphone attachment thingie and bring it to the iPod Touch. True iPhone without the phone (and AT&T;). Nice!
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