Vonage is currently conducting a beta test and general availability will be announced at a later date.
According to the press release, “This new service, along with the recent launch of the Vonage World unlimited calling plan, continues Vonage’s heritage of using innovative technology to create significant value for its current and future customers.”
Source: Vonage
MacDailyNews Take: Behold the power of Apple, where even App Store approval – before the app is even ready for sale – warrants a press release.
So please explain this to me…
If I get an iPod touch, get the Vonage App, and I am near a WiFi signal, I can make calls for free?
yes? no?
Oh yeah! I can’t wait for this app from Vonage. Thanks Apple!
You’ll pay Vonage, but not Apple.
So, $24.99/mo. for Vongage, instead of $100+ for AT&T;…
PLUS, I need to be near a WiFi signal…
Hmmm.
@DWJ
With the 2nd gen touch, yes you can with a pair of iPhone headphones.
I use trufone on my US iPhone in japan, and calling local us numbers is cheap-as-free, and calling japanese numbers is 10 cents a min, much better than the ATT roam rate of 3 bucks a minute.
I would gladly setup a vonnage account for a fee to get a Japanese number until I activate my iPhone here somehow on softbank.
So how is Vonage different/better than Skype, which I am using now?
@Javbw
Thanks. Will check out truphone.
What’s not clear is if this will work on the 3G signal, or, like Skype, just on WiFi.
And if it doesn’t have push notification, it’s pretty worthless. The only way Skype works is if it’s active. Otherwise, you can’t receive phone calls. I hope Vonage works better, but we’ll see.
AT&T;: No service right now.
Big deal I have been doing this for months using Fring and my regular Vonage account for FREE. See this:
http://www.reelsmart.com/2009/08/05/iphone-tip-51-use-vonage-on-iphone/
Isn’t this duplicating services already on the iPhone, so Google Voice should be next
@ LeftCoastDude
It will have push notification because their Vonage Companion software program for Macs and PCs has it already.
“Behold the power of Apple, where even App Store approval – before the app is even ready for sale – warrants a press release.”
Jeez, MDN, how biased can you be ? I own an iPhone and MacBook and generally love the Apple stuff. However, the truth is the AppStore approval process is a mess.
One developer had his app rejected because he used glossy chat bubbles which Apple apparently has “patented”, although there’s plenty of other apps (approved) that have them.
But I suppose any *bad* news from Cupertino will never make it on MDN.
@Joe Average
As he said…, Behold The Power Of Apple!
Will apple make a wimax device?? Wimax is the future forget phonecompanies all together.
Guys I am using for a long time Siax togehther with Vonage. Its working well. From the Siax Forum you can get the vonage settings http://forum.siax.org or
http://www.siax.org Even the SMS function cost me just 4 csnt to send a SMS
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