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Blognation has just learned of (and witnessed) the first ever VoIP calls made from an Apple iPhone. TruPhone, the company that is slowly but surely bringing VoIP and affordable international calling to mobile phones all over the... See more » Blognation has just learned of (and witnessed) the first ever VoIP calls made from an Apple iPhone. TruPhone, the company that is slowly but surely bringing VoIP and affordable international calling to mobile phones all over the world has just added a very important feather to its cap with the alpha-alpha version of what s sure to be a major buzz-generating application. To say the application isn’t yet ready for prime time would be a pretty major understatement as it currently requires the use of 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. To use the terminal application, in turn requires that you first Jailbreak the phone using an application like iBrickr or iFuntastic. This is not an application for the inexperienced or the faint of heart. That will all change however as the company tells me that it intends to finish development on the application which will include simplifying the activation and adding seamless switching back and forth between VoIP when open WiFi is available and the use of the SIM card when out of WiFi range. It is important to note that it is NOT NECESSARY to break the SIM lock to use TruPhone’s iPhone VoIP application. Personally I think this is huge news and also very exciting. Particularly for people traveling overseas this application will provide a really valuable alternative to ultra-expensive international roaming fees. Of course you can expect AT$T to be made about this and make all sorts of scary noises. This is really too bad because if the company took five minutes to stop and think about it they’d realize that far from costing them money in international roaming, this actually gives them a very substantial weapon to compete with T-Mobile’s At Home service. In fact, since the iPhone can use 802.11N TruPhone running on iPhone over WiFi should actually perform better than the popular T-Mobile service. According to the company, they expect a true beta release in about four weeks, however they cautioned me that they weren’t sure initially how many simultaneous connected clients they could support using the new application so they’re taking registrations on their site at TruPhone.com and will be allowing only a limited number of beta testers to get the application on a first come-first served basis. See less »

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