TruPhone app: Use your iPod Touch to make Calls


The iPod Touch may look like the iPhone and provide a similar user experience, but it obviously lacks mobile phone functionality. That was before the TruPhone app hit the scene.

TruPhone app for the iPod Touch

This nifty little application allows iPod Touch users to make phone calls through the internet not only to other TruPhone users (free), but also to other mobile phones and landline numbers as well with a corresponding fee. It also allows you to send SMS and make free calls to Google Talk PC users as well. Of course, this is only possible if you’re connected to a WiFi network and have a headset attached to it, but nevertheless, the availability of such an application definitely adds some added functionality to the iPod Touch that others have yet to offer. Unfortunately, this only works with 2G iPod Touch models so the greater majority of us who are still clinging on to their 1G iPod Touch are left out on all the fun.

The TruPhone app is completely free of charge and is now available at the App Store. Downloading and installing the app is the easy part. Finding a compatible headset for your iPod Touch, however, is more of a challenge. There are also versions of the TruPhone app for Nokia and BlackBerry phones available as well as for the iPhone so you can get in touch with more friends without spending a single cent.

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December 17th, 2008
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Written by:
john
Posted on:
12/17/2008 at 5:48 pm

sorry, im not getting into the fray of getting this one, including joining the iphone craze. the new htc touch hd is more than a wise investment, the new htc phone makes all others look — pathetic and collector’s items. drool over.

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Gerry
Posted on:
12/17/2008 at 9:26 pm

The poster is wrong. It works on 3G Data also and not just WIFI.

Being a traveler, i’ve used this service in Russia, China, Japan, New Zealand, Germany, Taiwan, Philippines, USA, and elsewhere. The requirement is broadband connection - via WIFI or 3G. I bring a mini-wireless router to my hotel for WIFI and use 3G outside.

I’ve been a subscriber of Truphone for 2 years now. First with Nokia N80IE and now N958GB moving to N96. iPhone? Yaiks! Folks don’t learn. They still judge the book by its cover.

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Written by:
Marxworld
Posted on:
12/17/2008 at 9:46 pm

I hope that the new HTC is a lot better than the HTC touch diamond. The diamond is so full of flaws and more than one app open and running wifi brings it crawling to it knees… oh.. and try and find the snooze button. 6 taps just to get it to snooze….

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Written by:
steve jobs
Posted on:
12/18/2008 at 12:05 am

not a fan of iphone

I prefer WM

but the price of HTC HD is preposterous

HTC, O2, Imate.

great OS,Bad Hardware

same goes with Xperia.

i have been waiting for it long time, when i saw the cheap plastics used on top, what i waste.

the chassi is a killer, but the plastic on the face panel is pathetic.

still waiting . . .

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Written by:
Allan David Reyes
Posted on:
12/18/2008 at 12:17 am

@Gerry

I was referring to the TruPhone app for the iPod Touch. If it’s for the iPhone 3G or any other 3G capable mobile phone, then yes, it does work on a 3G network as well.

However, since the article is about the TruPhone app for the iPod Touch, it only covers features that relate to that particular product.

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Written by:
peter
Posted on:
12/18/2008 at 12:54 am

if that is possible, why hasn’t anybody thought about a usb key with simcard, and a software, so that one can make GSM calls at least, using the ipod touch?