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iPhone Gets VoIP, Thanks to Fring

Written on October 04, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and 10 people have commented

As of yesterday, the iPhone natively supports VoIP calls without jailbreaking thanks to fring, a multi-client instant messaging application with Skype, Skype-out, fring and other SIP support for voice calling.
Fring has previously been available on Symbian and WinMo phones, and for jailbroken iPhones. It supports IM through fring, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Skype, Twitter, and ICQ [...]

Are Apple’s iPhone Crosshairs on VOIP?

Written on June 20, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 18 people have commented

Alumnus of The Apple Blog, Chris Holland, is back to ranting about his tech-mistress, SIP. And although the concept may sound far-fetched at the onset, the idea at the core is pure genius, and in this writer’s opinion, has Apple written all over it.
Chris postulates the iPhone as being the vehicle Apple [...]

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