iPod touch SIP-VoIP application videoed in action
By Darren Murph 
posted Dec 31st 2007 6:21AM
posted Dec 31st 2007 6:21AM
Sure, there's less than 24 hours before everyone and their grandmother can hop online and grab 'hold of the SIP-VoIP application, but if you won't be bothered with it unless there's proof that it works, you're in the right place. The crafty folks over at touch mods have videoed "the first VoIP call" made with an iPod touch, the aforementioned software and their own microphone appendage. Granted, the dialogue is about as uninteresting as it gets, but trust us, that's not what's important here. Check out a couple of in-action videos after the jump.[Thanks, Tyler]
A pretty cool mod I guess, although I rarely use VOIP. Seeing things like this makes me wish I had the time/drive/knowledge to create hacks/mods/apps. If this is the real deal, I tip my hat to the creators - you have enriched the lives of phoneless iPod Touch users everywhere! Or everywhere that there's a free wifi network anyway :P
I presume this would work on an iPhone too? If so, the using the iPhone around the house as a SIP phone over wi-fi would be awesome!
Yes, you'd think jailbreaking an iphone and false activating it would be the more popular choice considering the small price difference, but if you follow TUAW and such you'd know that they seem to have a big dream of appending a microphone to the touch and making it a wifi phone that looks a little ghetto.
I would rather a skype app for iPhone that used the built in phone system, or perhaps have apple make the iPhone work with the tmobile hotspot service for tmobile customers (it only makes sense).
I browsed over their blog, and they had two applications which apparently show the audio playback/recording quality of their software. They said it's only for the touch, and won't work on an iPhone.
That may be because the iPhone doesn't need it (already has a mic), or because they're making this touch-only. I don't know, but I hope it's the former.
Man, all this iPhone and iPod stuff is getting old. :| WOO! Can't wait for MacWorld. *sarcasm*
Looks nice :D
But if you can develop a mic for iPod touch, why don't take it to the next level? A simcard reader, so you can send text messages, call, surf the net etc. everywhere in the world.
As I understand it, this will let me connect to Skype (if I give it the right SIP Provider info), although because it doesn't use the Skype API and all that, I have to dial numbers instead of use contacts.
Can anyone tell me where I can find the SIP Provider info for some common providers like Skype?
KarlW - no you can not use this for Skype, since they do not use SIP. I have no problem offering you a trial SIP account, or to anyone else if you want to try out the iTouch, just send an email to itouch @ flatplanetphone.com
So exciting.
A bunch of people spend months trying to hack a VoIP app into an spplication-locked PDA leading other people to hope the same hack will work on the application-locked PDA/Phone that it was based on.
Meanwhile, my PDA AND my PDA phone both have had VoIP apps - INCLUDING Skype - for years, and I don't have to unlock or jailbreak anything.
I guess doing things the hardest way possible makes it newsworthy. Ironically, if Microsoft or Palm made it this hard to install new apps on their systems, you guys would be all over them for it instead of spending so much time on every little detail of how to do it.
None of those devices (save, perhaps, the Nokia N7?? and N8?? series "Internet tablets") run a mobile *NIX operating system, and thus are far less flexible. You don't see, for example, Firefly Media Server being ported to WM or Palm devices, because their SDKs are more restrictive and APIs less flexible than Linux's or OS X's.
This is principally about defeating artificial software restrictions on great hardware running great OSes.
Not only do those PDAs have skype, but also,I bet you carrying around those 2 brick sized PDAs in your pocket also gets you all the laaaaaddiees.
This VOIP is great. Will bring thousands to Ipod-touch community. To the individuals who wrote negative comments. HACKING IS A HOBBY a fun enterprise for some and a lot healthier than those who enjoy going on blogs in which they have no interest in and leave annoying comments which highlight their ignorance.