Tuesday December 11, 2007 An audience of two
Tuesday December 11, 2007
VOIP on iPod touch
A report on the Unofficial Apple Weblog claims to have a working VOIP implementation on the iPod Touch. That's pretty awesome - being able to make phone calls from an MP3 player!
Presumably this means that a version for the iPhone isn't far away. Which could be very useful. Now I don't have too much of a problem paying what amounts to a pretty hefty sum (compared to what I was paying on my old contract at least) to AT&T every month, but these days I'm conscious of the fact that if I go over my "minutes" I could get royally screwed. This happened a few months ago - we had some pretty long calls and I was using my old cellphone simply because it had a way better headset and offered better mobility than the landline, and I'd never gone over my limit in the years that I'd had the phone. When the bill arrived it was a bit of a shocker. So the option to use something like Skype occasionally to avoid burning through my minutes would certainly be interesting. In fact I might go so far as to ditch the landline entirely; it annoys me that calls to Menlo Park cost 10c a minute, whereas calls to the UK using OneSuite.com only cost me 2c a minute.
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You are right about going "over" your minutes on your cell phone. It happened to me quite numerous times so one day I went looking for an alternative so I don't use my cell phone for long distance calls. Found Onesuite.com and enjoyed its competitive rates. Now I just dialed the toll free number or the local access number from my cell phone and then use my Onesuite account for that long distance call.
My long distance cost that used to be about $50 a month went down to less than $20 using Onesuite and I think I'm making more calls on those $20.
Posted by Jay on January 09, 2008 at 06:28 PM PST #
Yeah I use OneSuite for all my calls to the UK - great rates - about $0.02 a minute I think.
Ironically, calling my cellphone (area code 415) from my landline (area code 408) costs $0.10 a minute.
Posted by Dave Tong on January 09, 2008 at 08:39 PM PST #