Vonage has released new mobile apps for iOS and Android offering free voice and texting throughout the world.
In 2010 Vonage expanded into Skype territory with a Facebook app to offer free calling to other Facebook users. Their new Vonage Mobile apps take this a step further by combining free app to app calling on iOS and Android with prepaid calls to other phones.
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Originally posted by A5J4DX: hasnt this been done?
Weird as it may sound, no, it hasn't. This is something like facetime but multi-platform. And without video calling. At least, not for now.
The main difference between this service and others like Skype, Google Talk, Live Messenger, Fring or Viber is that the account is determined by the phone number, and that's all about it.
The very same principle is what turned whatsapp into an any-other-messenger killer despite of being a really crappy app. Why? The phones may be smart, but most of users are still dumb enough to not knowing how to choose the nickname and password needed to set up a service account.
Yeah...........only practical for those grandfathered in on truly "Unlimited" data plans......of which they still get capped and this will probably become a data hog.
