iPhone finally getting VOIP over 3G?

[silverpig]

http://www.wifitalk.ca/iphone/new-iphone-sdk-enables-voip-over-3g/

Apparently there's some stuff in the new SDK which lifts the restriction. Some people have downloaded new apps and have said it works. I guess this iPad day wasn't ALL bad.

Now if we could only get the iPhone on a data-only contract. $30/mo unlimited everything would rock.

 

[aphex]

Very nice to see the restriction lifted, but I've been jailbroken for awhile now and been able to do this

 

[Pliablemoose]

I wonder if ATT will allow it to work on the iPad.

Skype has been non responsive to users asking for an Android app.

An easy, working VOIP solution over 3G on a portable device is a game changer IMHO.

Data Will Be Freed

In some iterations, the iPad is a 3G-capable device, and in all, it has a microphone. What it never has is built-in voice capabilities—that is, unless you download them. According to early reports, the new iPad and iPhone SDK has lifted the restriction on voice calls over 3G data (VoIPo3G?). Opening up voice over data services for the iPad could have a larger effect on iPhone apps than on iPad apps, since, you know, they're for phones.

AT&T isn't the first wireless company to allow voice over 3G data, and the iPhone is far from the first phone to support it, but for both to now be onboard with a technology that threatens a core feature of carriers' business plans is a very, very good sign.

http://gizmodo.com/5459834/more-app...ad-will-change-the-app-store?skyline=true&s=i