Comments on: And VoIP Comes To IPhone

By: Moshe Maeir

Moshe Maeir — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:21:30 +0000

Om, Thanks for the mention. I think one of the coolest features that we are putting in there, is the time function, once you put international numbers on a mobile phone, no one knows where you are when they call you. You could give them a NY number but be in Lima or Bangalore. Since the caller does not know where you are, or assumes that you are in NY, he just might call you in the middle of your sleep….
so how do we solve it? When you land in a new country or time zone you call up an access number and type in the current time. From now on whenever someone calls you, he will hear a message —
o Thanks for calling John Doe. The time were I am now is XX:XXpm (the system will read out the current time - that way the caller who doesnt know where you are in the world - will decide if it is an appropriate time to bother you! )
If you want to send me a fax press 1. + If you want to leave me a message press 2 + If you want to speak to me press 3 + If you prefer to speak to my assistant press 4
+ If you need me urgently press 5 and the PBX will try to find me
Thanks for calling my iPhone PBX and have a good day or night wherever you may be!

By: kastor417

kastor417 — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:39:16 +0000

I can’t wait till the average phone is an i phone

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:34:39 +0000

I know you weren’t talking about it in this sense, but technically - the iPhone already had VoIP - the traffic runs over AT&T’s (formerly Cingulars) Sonus network.

By: Frederik Hermann

Frederik Hermann — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:12:57 +0000

Hey Om,

thanks for the mention of JAJAH and it works absolutely smooth on any iPhone - no Wifi needed. Simply access (link) with your iPhone’s browser and start making ultra-low cost international phone-to-phone calls.

This is how it works:

(link)

Talk to you later and cheers,

Frederik

By: Robin Wauters

Robin Wauters — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:06:15 +0000

Err, yes, that’s what Oliver broke on blognation yesterday, in case you missed it (although it was linked to prominently in Andy’s post as well):

(link)

By: Markus Goebel's Tech News Comments

Markus Goebel's Tech News Comments — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:50:22 +0000

Truphone brings free VoIP calls to the iPhone

Just two days after that Om Malik and his fellow VoIP blogger James Seng from Singapore declared that there is no excitement in VoIP anymore comes the next breakthrough. The UK company Truphone is the first to bring VoIP to Apple's iPhone. They showc...