VoIP on the Touch already exists, courtesy of a rather unwieldy Wal-Mart microphone designed for a different type of iPod. The software for this came out around the beginning of 2008. It is by no means mainstream, thanks to the fact that you have to pick up a soldering iron and modify the stock mic slightly (and it's ugly as sin). Beautiful it is not, but functional it is.
No idea if that mic works with fring, but it directly accesses the Touch's Line In contacts - so it's possible that it could with minimal modification. The main advantage of fring seems to be integration with IM.
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VoIP on the Touch already exists, courtesy of a rather unwieldy Wal-Mart microphone designed for a different type of iPod. The software for this came out around the beginning of 2008. It is by no means mainstream, thanks to the fact that you have to pick up a soldering iron and modify the stock mic slightly (and it's ugly as sin). Beautiful it is not, but functional it is.
No idea if that mic works with fring, but it directly accesses the Touch's Line In contacts - so it's possible that it could with minimal modification. The main advantage of fring seems to be integration with IM.