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About 18 months ago, I asked Ralph de la Vega when I could control my AT&T U-verse^SM TV with my iPhone.  Well now, I can.  Sort of.  As long as you are away from home. 

AT&T has a free application from the Apple App Store to make scheduling and managing recordings on their DVR even easier when you’re away from home. 

The U-verse TV Mobile Remote Access App for iPhone and iPod touch lets customers record their content from virtually anywhere and is another example of U-verse TV applications and DVR enhancements that have been rolled out to customers at no extra charge.

The app allows users to easily search U-verse TV program listings from the full program guide, view descriptions of selected programs, schedule program or series recordings, manage or edit scheduled recordings, and delete stored DVR content.

The Mobile Remote Access App is available for free from Apple’s App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/.

The launch of the new U-verse TV Mobile Remote Access App follows several DVR enhancements that are currently being rolled out to U-verse TV customers, including an exclusive new Total Home DVR feature that allows customers to schedule and delete recordings from any U-verse receiver in the home — all from a single DVR.

Source: voip-tech.blogspot.com

It’s finally available the software to videocall by VoIP for the iPhone, the popular Skype™ is ready to use for the factotum cellphone by Apple; Skype™ for the iPhone is freely downloadable from the official website, or from the App Store website.
At the momento you can make calls by Skype™ just via a wi-fi broadband connection using the wireless connection integrated into the iPhone.
Skype for the iPhone is compatible also with the iPod Touch (the 2nd generation one).
For more informations, visit the Skype™ website.

P.S.: this is not an April fool’s joke!

Source: www.voip-news.com

Looking to make VoIP calls from your iPod Touch? Well, you are going to need a mic…and headphones, too, probably. Fortunately, Griffin TuneBuds could be the answer to your VoIP search.

According to Wired:

The in-ear style TuneBuds cost $40, which is half what Apple is asking for its in-ear iPhone cans. More importantly, the Griffin headphones are available to buy, whereas Apple still hasn’t managed to make any of its new mic and remote equipped earbuds available yet. I should know — I’ve been trying to buy some for a month.

See? I’m loooking out for you!

Source: alanweinkrantz.typepad.com

The new BlackBerry Bold goes on sale Tuesday (don’t forget to vote for Obama – I  mean, McCain)  and is available at the AT&T stores in your neck of the woods.

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: voip-tech.blogspot.com

Even the new born in Apple house, the well-known multimedia portable player iPod, available on the App Store and very similar to his brother iPhone, will have its VoIP functionality, thanks to the new earphones with microphone it will be possible to make VoIP calls by the TruPhone application and the integrated Wi-Fi LAN (802.11b/g), TruPhone is available for free on the App Store.

Source: www.voip-news.com

The latest iPod will have VoIP capabilities. Yep, all it took was one extra wire in the headphone jack and the little music player will be able to double as an internet phone. How crazy/funky/cool.

And go Rich Tehrani of TMCNet for predicting it. Course his column says 1994 and links to a story from 2004. Lord, if it was in 1994, that would have been pure genius. Do you remember 1994? Computers and the internet were in their infancy compared to today.

Now, who wants an MP3, VoIP, Video player?

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

iPod Nano Sparks in Japan!
Geemodo: Sparking iPod Prompts An Iinvestigation In Japan.

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

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That is what Stanley Sigman, President and Chief Executive Officer—AT&T Mobility, has said when he was first shown the capabilities of iPhone. According to a Wired magazine’s article about how iPhone exploded the wireless market.
The article goes through the development phase of the iPhone, its marketing phase and where it is today.
The four page article carries you through Apple meeting rooms, development, iPod beginnings and I think will keep you glued to it until the end, like it did to me.

The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

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.