Source: www.voip-news.com

A simple comparison, now that the new iPod Touch has a microphone and there is at least one working VoIP application to use with wifi. For the purposes of this comparison I am going to skew every single decision in favor of the iPhone as much as possible.

But first, the VoIP calling details. Fring has a free iPhone/iPod Touch app in the Apple app store that is smart, can call via Skype and via several SIP clients and knows enough to offer you all available calling options (including cellular on an iPhone). The significance is that with a global Skype Out plan you can call pretty much anywhere in the world for very very little. Note that you cannot use the VoIP calling portion over 3G – so outside wifi range you are going to have to make cellular calls and pay the freight.

Price

iPod Touch

$229 (for 8GB model)

Total - $229

iPhone WITHOUT plan (buyout)

$199 plus $18 fee plus $30 first month (as far as I can make out in the legalese you are stuck with the first month no matter what you do) plus $175 buyout. Note that this gets you an iPhone with no cellular capabilities – essentially an iPod Touch with a camera. Of course, if the plan is to switch to another carrier, then this is likely your way to go.

Total - $422

iPhone WITH plan

$199 (for 8GB) plus $30 per month (for two years) plus one time $18 upgrade fee. I am not including the cost of the cellular plan since I will assume that it is replacing my existing plan.

Total - $937

Feature Differences

Ipod Touch

Our baseline.

iPhone WITHOUT plan

Has camera.

iPhone WITH plan

Has a camera. Can make cellular calls and access the data network from anywhere 3G works – a significant amount more than any wifi coverage.

What does this mean? First – despite a few heated comments on bulleting boards and forums, it is a complete waste of time to buy out of an AT&T iPhone contract unless you are moving it to a different cellular plan.

Second. If you spend most of your time near wifi, you can save yourself over $700 by buying an iPod Touch and using Fring. Just don’t expect it to be more than an iPod outside of wifi range.

Source: gigaom.com

Source: www.voip-news.com

Did you know you can turn your iPod Touch into a VoIP phone? Lifehacker has step by step instructions.

Gigaom talks about Skype’s first quarter earnings here.

Meanwhile, Skype is getting some bad press thanks to its new CEO. Read about it on VoIP Watch.

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

Ken Rutkowski turned me on to this story in Lifehacker.

The story provides step by step instructions for turning an iPod Touch into an iPhone of sorts that works with FreeVoIP and likely other SIP providers.

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

The Touchmods team have furthered it self by teaming up with the French ADSL provider “Free“
The new VoIP application also has a new name, “Siphon”.

The current SIPon is locked to the provider free. So you need to be in Europe where Free service is available to use it. This is because Free donated to the project and it was mainly for SIPon software development. You can download SIPon from Free site, by clicking here.

The Touchmods Team has not forgotten the other users, "Of course, there will be an open version released in some days so that everybody can test SIP on iPhones and iPod Touch."

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

New iPhone models and prices, have been released. From What I know so far they are;
The new 16GB iPhone will cost $499, joining the 8GB model costing $399 . Still no sign of 3G version of iPhone. The iPod touch now comes in a 32GB model for $499, joining the 16GB model costing $399 and the 8GB model shipping for $299. There supposed to be some new stuff with the iPod Touch.

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

The Touchmods is getting ready for SIP-VoIP.app V1.1 and have released the beta skin shown above. They also mention that the settings Menu of the v1.1 SIP-VoIP will contain username, password, server, reg-timeout, nat (yes/no), stun domain, and stun server.

Also in the works for SIP-VoIP.app V1.1 are incoming calls, caller-id and fully skinnable app. To create your own skins, touchmods plan to release a complete skin-package zip, which could be used design your own designs in no-time.

I am waiting impatiently for my mic!

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

Two vulnerabilities and a security issue have been reported in Apple iPhone and iPod touch, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, bypass certain security restrictions, or to compromise a vulnerable device.

1) An unspecified error in the handling of URLs exists in Safari. This can be exploited to cause a memory corruption when a user is enticed to access a specially crafted URL.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

2) An error in the handling of emergency calls can be exploited to bypass the Passcode Lock feature and allows users with physical access to an iPhone to launch applications without the passcode.

This security issue is reported in iPhone v1.0 through v1.1.2 only.

3) An error in Safari can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

For more information see vulnerability #21 in:
SA28136

Solution:
Update to version 1.1.3 (downloadable and installable via iTunes).

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory:
Apple:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307302

Other References:
SA28136:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28136/

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

Macworld Keynote By Steve Jobs Live

iPhone gets new apps, maps with location, Lyrics, Webclips, Customize home screen, SMS multiple people. Webclips are bookmarks on your home screen. you can have up to 9 of them. It’s a free download and is available today.
iPod touch gets Mail, Stocks, Notes, Maps and Weather, if you pay $20.

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

The first Touchmods machine-made Mic just arrived at Touchmods. Their production is already running and plan to ship the first pieces in two to three weeks. First 1000 of who did register for a mic has been sent an email asking for a payment.
Mic pre-ordering information on touchmods FAQ page.

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

The iPod mod team, The Touchmod has released SIP-VoIP for the iPod Touch version 1.0 to the public. If you have found your way or others to connect a microphone to your iPod Touch, you are in business, with your new iPod VoIP Phone. The application also works with iPhone version 1.0.2.
Here is a video of the application;

Based on the feed backs, following SIP Services supposed to be working;

Later today I will try mine with Asterisk server.
But for the curious, here are the related links;
To get a Microphone, pre order it from here.
To make sure that this post came from VoIP IP Telephony.
To get the application, skins and information, the touchmods.net (New site)

tag: iPod Touch, iPhone, touchmods, iPhone 1.0.2, SIP, Asterisk, iPhone VoIP

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

MobileWhack reports that the iPod Touch can be used as a VoIP device with a new hack that’s coming out of France right around the New Year.