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Turning an iPod Touch Into an iPhone

Posted by kdawson on from the at&t-not-best-pleased dept.

David Burnett recommends an eWeek article on the leading contenders to make an iPhone out of an iPod Touch. Of course your newly phone-capable iTouch needs no activation and no binding carrier contract, just Wi-Fi. One of the companies working in this space, JaJah, is bundling the software with back-end services such as billing, so that carriers — or anyone really — can offer free-calling iTouch phones.

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  1. Re:"Just needs wifi" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh I can just whip it out anywhere I feel like it.

    I'll whip it good.

    *ahem* Now its time to read TFA, to find out what the hell you're talking about.

  2. Re:"Just needs wifi" by the_humeister · · Score: 4, Funny

    They should do this with the Zune, because not only can you whip it out, you can squirt other people too!