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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. Watch Apple crush this by Goodgerster · · Score: 4, Informative

    "What? It competes with our own services!? Delete it from the Store! Then bring me the developers' ashes on a plate with a glass of red wine..."

  2. Re:Something is missing... by jollespm · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think you have that backwards. The 2nd gen Touch has a speaker, but no mic. You can buy the "Apple In-Ear Headphones with Remote and Mic" and you then have a mic.

  3. Re:an iphone that's missing 3g and edge by e4g4 · · Score: 3, Informative

    What's that? Your going to find a way to put it on there without Apple's permission? A simple firmware upgrade will take care of that.

    Which is precisely why I've had a voip client on my iPhone that, in blatant disregard of Apple's Wifi only voip rules works on the cellular network, and has through the last several firmware updates...

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    The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein
  4. Re:Scarce wifi? Not really. by MaggieL · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, King of Prussia is named for the bar that the town grew up around. The bar was named for Fredrick the Great (aka "Frederick the Queer"), some say in the hope of attracting the business of Prussian mercenaries encamped at nearby Valley Forge.

    The Turnpike comes though here too...

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    -=Maggie Leber=-