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I hope that VERY soon we see video calling over cell phones like they have in Japan. If the next iteration of Google phones have that, I'll buy it in a heartbeat and not look back.
If you are not using skype and the voipover3g app to use it you are missing out on some . Its $8.49 for 3 months unlimited outgoing calls $30 for a year, you can get the smallest cell plan possible and use skype on both wifi and 3g clarity is good enough.
You can also for a little bit more money get your own skype incoming # which will also show on caller ids when calling out via skype.
I knew skype was out for a while but just took the time to install it and install the 3ghack and tested and holy am i gonna save some money. Also it has sms built right into skype as well.
You can sms, chat, and call out from your iphone contacts or just recreate them in skype.
I hope that VERY soon we see video calling over cell phones like they have in Japan. If the next iteration of Google phones have that, I'll buy it in a heartbeat and not look back.
I just tested it for about an hour on both Wifi and 3G. I did get a couple of dropped calls but overall I'd still say it will be worth the minimal costs to have what is essentially unlimited minutes on my iphone.
I never stop blowing my load over all of the cool you can do on the iPhone.
better use it while you can. Skype might be going away soon:
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/if-skyp...ill-gap-106880
If Skype goes, what would fill the gap?
Mitc Hall | Monday August 3 2009 - 12:20pm
Skype owner eBay is facing litigation from Skype’s original owners and founders contending that eBay only owns a license to use the technology that powers Skype – and that the license has now expired.
The Swedish founders of Skype Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis run a company called Joltid, and say that Skype "should not possess, use or modify certain software source code."
They contend that eBay has disclosed some of that code in US patent cases following US court orders, reports the Guardian, and they now seek to revoke Skype's licence on the basis of copyright infringement and misuse of confidential information.
Ebay is exposed in a major way on this controversy in light of its plans to float Skype next year, and it has been trying to sell the company since the beginning of the year according to the New York Times, with an IPO potentially worth up to $US4 billion.
Ebay paid $US2.6 billion for Skype in 2005 with performance incentives that raised the total to $US3.1 billion (a subsequent writedown of $US1.4 billion was an implicit admission eBay overpaid), but Skype now has 480 million users worldwide, and generated $US170 million in revenue for the second quarter of this year, up 25%.
It gets more convoluted – Messers Friis and Zennström reportedly want to buy back the company, and led a private equity group in making an offer on the company three months ago.
Ebay is now in the process of hastily trying to develop its own peer-to-peer communication software before the case is heard in June 2010 as a possible workaround to try and continue running the Skype service.
In its submission to the Securities and Exchange Commission eBay acknowledged that if it was unsuccessful in developing alternative software, that may result in “loss of functionality or customers even if successful, and will in any event be expensive. If Skype was to lose the right to use the Joltid software as the result of the litigation, and if alternative software was not available, Skype would be severely and adversely affected and the continued operation of Skype’s business as currently conducted would likely not be possible.”
If the company is unsuccessful in developing an alternative, another option could be to simply buy it from someone else like Gizmo, but ReadWriteWeb notes that “The creation of another global P2P VOIP and video network that doesn't infringe on existing patents is no small task.”
One more thing: Skype’s disappearance from the market would leave a huge opportunity for Google to take its Google Voice offering and extend it into the gap, writes Bytesizeupdates.
I'm sure ing ATT is behind this. They play dirty as
oh btw, how was your battery life??
I used skype for about 1 hour not talking, just chatting and my iphone battery was done.
I am not so sure this is a good solution
Yeah I think the new program is called 3G Unrestrictor on cydia. It lets you use 3G on skype and other VoIP apps, and allows you to cir vent download limits (10 mb) of app store. Good .
Hey Heath is there Wifi at Vegas Casinos (e.g. MGM)? I wanna use skype to keep in touch with my boys when we're separated.
My battery is fine, i talked for 1hr to my sister, i lost about 15 percent of my battery went down to 85 or 86 percent.
Skype is not worried about the suit but just in case they are coding their own version of the diisputed technology/agreement.
Vegas has Wifi all over the place some hotels are free some you have to pay per day or whatever. As you are walking from one to the other your bound to find a free wifi hub somewhere, tons of apps in the app store to tell you where all the wifi hubs are.
Unrestrictor is a paid app, i used VOIPOVER3g which is free.
Do you have a 3GS? VoIPover3G didn't work with my 3Gs, which is why I had to get 3G Unrestrictor.
Actually NVM it was updated since I last used it.
When are you going to Vegas?
Should arrive around noon on the 15th. Leaving the 17th (evening).
TMobile gave me the customer loyalty plan (unlimited everything) so no need for this on my iPhone... but this is a useful tip for anyone else with limited plans.
I need my 3G so no TMobile for me.
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