Free calls to anywhere? (PC-to-PC, PC-to-Phone)

I guess most people know what Skype is by now. However, Skype do have a cost associated with it's use, especially when calling a landline or mobile. And most recently, if you are calling Skype over 3G. This become silly, since you're already paying 3G connectivity, so why should there be cost of running Skype over 3G. One way to go around this is to have a jail-broken iphone and have special apps to convince the voip apps that they are talking to Wifi when they really are talking to 3G.

But wait, now there is a new kid on the block, that challenges the Skype paradigm. It's called Callarc . It is supposedly supporting Symbian, iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile devices. I look at the website, and have not seen where to get access to the downloads/apps. Time will tell how CallArc will stack up against all the existing VoIP apps.

New IPOD Touch - now for VoIP ? (or not?)

Hello IPOD Touch owners,

Recently some of my good friends got me an 8-gb IPOD Touch for my birthday. I started to wonder if the music playing device can do much more - like doing voice notes or even Voice over IP (eg. like Skype). Then I realise that the IPOD Touch does not have a Microphone built-in like the IPhone. As I was searching around the web, I come across a group of hackers who have successfully mass produced Mic dongle that fits into the IPOD docking socket... very cool. http://touchmods.wordpress.com/
As you can see from their website, they even have software that would allow your IPOD Touch to interface to SIPs and hence about to do VoIP calls.

As I did more research.. I've discovered a EVEN better method of VoIP WITHOUT the need of the Microphone. And it will work great for folks in Singapore. I'll detail this out in my next article once I've perform sufficient tests - so stay tune!!