Don’t Want To Use Your Minutes? There’s an App For That
In a reversal of Apple’s original policy for blocking any applications such as Google Voice from being able to make phone calls using only the data connection charges from the iPhone carrier AT&T, Apple will allow the iPhone to make VoIP phone over their 3G network by releasing the iPhone SDK which will allow developers of applications for the iPhone (and potentially the new iPad) to now utilize this new feature.
Such a move by Apple is significant as this will allow users to treat their voice calls as bits of data that can be transmitted without incurring additional charges (on an unlimited data plan) for using minutes and driving revenues up for the iPhone carrier here in the United States.
This is an important announcement for those of you who use Skype and want to save your minutes for your calling. Skype will undoubtedly be updating their application to take advantage of this new feature, if you’d like to try it today download the iCall, Fring or Acrobits application and start calling right away.
Google’s voice application may now allow users of their service to now try out that service, as of today you can access that application by going to m.google.com/voice.
Hopefully, this trend will continue and we will see more applications on different platforms follow suit, in the meantime, stay tuned.
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