Truphone, a new freeware application for the iPod Touch, promises to use the media player's built in Wi-Fi to turn the device into a virtual mobile phone where owners can make phone calls using Skype.
Although you can currently only make calls to other iPod or iPhone users using the app, the developers say calls to landlines will be in place in the near future.
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There is already an app from the app store that you can make calls from it using skype called fring. But your still going to need to get a mic before people can hear you .
There is one application you have forgotten. Fring (www.fring.com) has been available for the iPod Touch for ages and enables ANY Voip (SIP) account to be used, as well as Skype, making it a virtual phone of choice. Unlike Truphone, fring is absolutely free and unlike Truphone already includes IM chatting (MSN, Yahoo, Googletalk, Jabber, etc) as well as a host of other free add-ons. Most users do not have any issues with the sound at all.
Originally posted by Discmania: There is one application you have forgotten. Fring (www.fring.com) has been available for the iPod Touch for ages and enables ANY Voip (SIP) account to be used, as well as Skype, making it a virtual phone of choice. Unlike Truphone, fring is absolutely free and unlike Truphone already includes IM chatting (MSN, Yahoo, Googletalk, Jabber, etc) as well as a host of other free add-ons. Most users do not have any issues with the sound at all.
Nope no one forgot it. Was talked about in the first comment lol
