Truphone on the iPhone

Andy points out that Truphone can be used on the iPhone, as you can see from the video taken at Demo ’07.

I think that the video could be actually misunderstood. The video shows a call made from an iPhone to a Truphone number provisioned on a Nokia E61i. But, it seems that the owner of the iPhone is not using Truphone there… or anyone would say so at least.

According to this article, the software is an early “Alpha-Alpha-Alpha”… since you need to be a hacker to use it. But, it works. It basically uses the iPhone’s Wifi connection to deliver the VoIP calls.

To use the terminal application, in turn requires that you first Jailbreak the phone using an application like iBrickr or iFuntastic. This is not an application for the inexperienced or the faint of heart.

That will all change however as the company tells me that it intends to finish development on the application which will include simplifying the activation and adding seamless switching back and forth between VoIP when open WiFi is available and the use of the SIM card when out of WiFi range. It is important to note that it is NOT NECESSARY to break the SIM lock to use TruPhone’s iPhone VoIP application.

Looking forward to further developments. It seems that it’s now a “must” to be on the iPhone.

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