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How to turn your iPod Touch into an iPhone

Although this isn’t the first time we’ve heard of a product like this, it’s good to know that people are still plugging away at turning the iPod Touch into an iPhone. Back in December, we heard about a company called Truphone, which also provides VoIP services for your smartphone.

In theory, having a VoIP device sounds good. The problem is the reliability of the service has consistently been lackluster on mobile. I’ve yet to try a service that can provide the sort of reliability you would expect from Vonage ported over to mobile.

“With JAJAH, consumers would only need a Wi-Fi connection, no SIM card or contract. JAJAH’s IP communications platform gives its partners everything they need to launch the service immediately. That includes the application itself and the entire suite of management services from termination of calls, quality control, billing and processing of payments in 200 countries around the world.”

Personally, I’m an iPhone user so I don’t have much of a need for this, but I’d love to hear your thoughts if you’ve tried it.

Check out JAJAH here.

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How to turn your iPod Touch into a mobile VoIP phone

Hack

This post isn’t about mobile devices, but since the iPod Touch with VoIP is like a mobile phone, I believe it qualifies. iPod hackers Dr Marian Kepesi, “Eok” and Samuel Vinson have designed and shipped an iPod Touch microphone and developed VoIP software that allows you to place calls using the mic/software combo.

The story of how this came together is great. Kepesi started the operation when he modded the docking cable, connecting the line-in pins to live audio, and recorded his first sample. The sound level was low but the signal was live. The iPod Touch’s ability to record was uncovered. Kepesi then put together his parts list and posted the circuit details so anyone could build the open source, dockable microphone. In total the parts cost about $30.

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VoIP calls on the iPhone with Fring - Not quite what you expected

Fring VoIP calls on the iPhone

Fring is a free iPhone app that offers IM aggregation and VoIP, but according to reviews out there, it isn’t quite what you wanted. Apparently, the VoIP calls constantly drop and the IM client lacks all the slightly rich features that IMs usually have such as avatars. Also, the VoIP can’t access your contact list so you have to manually input numbers. Sounds like a bummer but I like the idea. VoIP calls on the iPhone are going to be great for saving money.

[Via GearDiary]