Skype is now available for the iPhone – and will be coming to BlackBerry in May.
The VoIP app on the iPhone will only work over Wi-Fi and not 3G. It will allow iPhone subscribers to use phone numbers in their existing iPhone address book – without the need for duplicate lists.
As always, it allows free calls between Skype users and charges for calls to landlines or mobiles.
UPDATE: Since being released on Tuesday it has emerged that Skype on iPhone does works over 3G, despite being intended only for use with WiFi.
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The CEO of Gizmo5 Michael Robertson has responded to last week’s announcement of Skype for SIP by posting a comparison (see below) of the new service and his own company’s OpenSky.
While welcoming Skype’s initiative, he described it as a "vaporware announcement" with "murky pricing details".
International voice traffic continues to rise – despite the availability of an ever-broader range of substitutes for standard telephone calls.
Cross-border telephone traffic grew 14 per cent in 2007 and is estimated to have grown 12 per cent in 2008, to 384 billion minutes, according to data from TeleGeography.
Operators O2 and Orange have reacted to plans by Nokia to embed Skype in handsets and may refuse to stock the N97.
Skype is linking up with Nokia to embed its calling software in the Finnish company’s new handsets.
Frank Grillo, Cypress Communication’s executive vice president of marketing, is the winner of the voip-biz.news’ Person of the Year award.
In nominating him for the title, the telecoms professional was described as a "visionary executive" and "innovative thinker" with "technical acumen".
A true visionary, a trend spotter, truly innovative and the driving force behind OnRelay.
Just some of the plaudits from those that voted OnRelay’s CEO and co-founder Ivar Plahte as smartphone-biz.news’ Person of the Year 2008.
The struggling economy will slow the growth of VoIP, but deployments remain wide-ranging at mitigated levels.
So says In-Stat in a report that also found just over a third of US businesses that have deployed VoIP use it exclusively.
Truphone has unveiled its plans for a single-SIM, multi-country mobile service that will enable users to make calls in supported countries at local rates.
The mobile communications company says a key aim of the Local Anywhere service is to eliminate the hassle of switching SIM cards or the expense of often-exorbitant roaming charges when callers use their handsets on foreign trips, according to voip.biz-news.
HD Communications has unveiled a new In-Wall Wi-Fi, Data, VoIP, and PoE device.
The HD27000 is an all-in-one device designed specifically for hotels, motels and the enterprise market.
The new year is firmly underway and time is running out for submitting your nominations and votes for voip.biz-news’ 2008 Man and Product of the Year awards.
But with voting expected to be close in both award categories there’s plenty of opportunity for latecomers to make their mark.