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With New SDK, VoIP Over 3G Apps Now Working On iPhone
silverpig writes "Yesterday marked the announcement of the Apple iPad device, and with it came a new version of the SDK. In this new version, Apple has lifted the VoIP over 3G restrictions that limited VoIP traffic to wifi only. This morning, Fring announced that its iPhone app is 3G-capable starting immediately. No update is needed as apparently the app had 3G capability all along, but a server-side block prevented its use. Furthermore, apparently a 3G-capable version of Skype has been ready for some time now, and has been waiting for this restriction to be lifted."
It's nice to have this enabled finally. However, the mention that this is something blocked on the server side makes me wonder if this may only be relevant to specific markets.
One of the best parts about my iPhone being jailbroken was that little hack that let you use VOIP over 3g.
Alternative Bluetooth stacks are in the works for jailbroken phones. They already have file-sending working, and presumably Bluetooth HID are next.
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Well it competes with their voice and SMS offerings (where they make their money) while flooding their already overloaded data networks. Plus it diminishes the amount of control they have over their customers, since VoIP is completely portable, making cell networks just another point of entry to the Internet.
I assume multitasking is still missing so how's skype/fring going to work? "Call me so I can log in"? "While in a skype call - let me log out, I need to check this links/mail/etc?"
I agree. I was in the hospital recently, and the pretty nurse happened to notice that I had an iPhone. She was very curious about it. I showed her e-mail, and the browser, and google maps, and IHeartRadio, and she decided there and then she'd go and buy one. She came back the next day and waved it at me. Now, she's a nurse, she's reasonably clever, but not computer person. She does have a computer, and knows how to dock the phone with iTunes. Does she want a philosophical discussion about open v. proprietary? No. It's just got to work.
Awesome post. It is amazing how many people I run across that think everyone needs every feature of every device. For the most part people want to get email and browse the internet. There only other require is that it works and they don't have to read a book or invest a ton of time to learn to use it. They do not care about 90% of the features