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With New SDK, VoIP Over 3G Apps Now Working On iPhone

Posted by timothy on from the try-reading-that-headline-15-years-ago dept.

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."

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  1. I'm not special anymore by jgtg32a · · Score: 4, Interesting

    One of the best parts about my iPhone being jailbroken was that little hack that let you use VOIP over 3g.

    1. Re:I'm not special anymore by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I guess you could go catch a virus thats exclusive to Jailbroken iPhones. Would that make you feel better?

    2. Re:I'm not special anymore by WaXHeLL · · Score: 4, Informative

      You mean the viruses for those people who were stupid enough to leave OpenSSH running on their iphone, with the default login/pw?

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    3. Re:I'm not special anymore by Lars+T. · · Score: 4, Informative
      http://www.findmysoft.com/news/Security-and-Functionality-Why-Not-Jailbreak-Your-iPhone/

      According to security expert Charlie Miller, jailbroken iPhones are more vulnerable than non-jailbroken And Charlie Miller should know what he is talking about. After all, he is credited for uncovering the security issue that spawned the first Google Android update, and he did manage to break the Apple developed Safari browser in about 10 seconds and this year’s PWN2OWN competition. While jailbreaking the device is a great way to use the iPhone’s full potential, it also means that you remove all the security protections that Apple built into the device’s software. You will be able to install 3rd party app and other software applications that are not distributed via the iTunes Store, but you will also leave your device wide open to all sorts of attacks.

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  2. About time by WiiVault · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now where's teathering for us poor AT&T "customers"?

  3. Beginning of the end of telephony? by uzyn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This could mean the beginning of the end of traditional telephony, ie. mobile carriers will soon simply become ISPs with no one using its voice/SMS/MMS services.

    1. Re:Beginning of the end of telephony? by slimjim8094 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Oh God I hope so. It goes great with VoIP on the home-line side.

      Why should there be a marginal cost to a phone call? There isn't - once you're paying for the infrastructure, it's free.

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  4. While we're at it... (other bluetooth profiles). by weston · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When is the iPhone getting that? The iPad can use a bluetooth keyboard, but the iPhone can't? What kind of crap is this?

    And while we're at it.... why not bluetooth syncing (with SYNCH, FTP, & OBEX), DUN for the touch and iPad, BPP (printing), and Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP)?

    This isn't just an Apple problem, by the way. This is an industry-wide problem right now: "bluetooth" means a lot of things and most of the market doesn't seem to care to specify what. The BSIG ought to require those using the Bluetooth logo to specify which profiles a device supports, for the sake of consumer awareness and market pressure.

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  5. AT&T has allowed VoIP on 3G network since Oct by daveschroeder · · Score: 5, Informative

    AT&T now allowing iPhone VoIP calls over 3G

    AT&T Greenlights VoIP For the iPhone

  6. What about multitasking? by itsme1234 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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?"

  7. Re:Lifted until? by jo_ham · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wait!

    So, first it's "Apple is evil, it;s so locked down! It sucks! They should open it!", and when they actually do open it up and enable new function that they had previously prevented (for whatever reason) it's "Apple is still evil! They will restrict it again!"

    Which is it?

    Do you want them to remove restrictions or not?

  8. Re:Maybe someone can fill me in here by jgtg32a · · Score: 4, Informative

    $0.02/min to China, as opposed to $3/min.

  9. Re:Lifted until? by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apple is still evil until it was never evil from the beginning.

    Now don't go getting all biblical on us. Won't work because we understand recursion.

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  10. Re:Lifted until? by Swift2001 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.