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truphone to Offer VoIP Client For iPhone

Posted: September 26th, 2007 | Author: | Filed under: VoIP News | 2 Comments »

Not Ready For Mass Market Use

Although the client is not ready for mass market use as it requires a terminal on the iPhone to tell the iPhone to use its on-board SIP stack to place the call over WiFi instead of via the SIM card, Oliver Starr witnessed the first ever VoIP call on the iPhone. Truphone does plan to finish the development on this client to make it more user friendly…more inline with what an iPhone user would demand, in about a month.

Although I have been critical of the mobile VoIP provider model in the past, there is no denying that this is a slick application for the iPhone that should be wildly popular – exposing truphone to a whole new customer base.

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2 Comments on “truphone to Offer VoIP Client For iPhone”

  1. 1 Markus Goebel's Tech News Comments said at 11:51 am on September 26th, 2007:

    Truphone brings free VoIP calls to the iPhone…

    I hope that Truphone can soon make a full fledged iPhone application out of their demoed command line tinkering. And hopefully they consider to extend their free calls offer to iPhone users for a longer time, like they do to the Nokia users yet for m…..

  2. 2 VoIP su iPhone: la prima chiamata via WiFi con Truphone | VoipBlog.it said at 9:29 pm on September 26th, 2007:

    [...] Molto probabilmente sarà la notizia della settimana per quanto riguarda il VoIP… sull’argomento hanno già scritto in tanti: Andy Abramson, Om Malik, Markus Goebel, Tom Keating, Bruce Stewart, Russell Shaw, VoIP Monitor, Mashable,, daily-wireless.org, iPhone Alley, iPhone News Blog, VoIPUser, Alec Saunders, Rob Evans, Garrett Smith, Into Mobile, TechDigest. [...]

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