{"id":751,"date":"2008-12-04T12:57:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T19:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=751"},"modified":"2008-12-04T12:57:33","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T19:57:33","slug":"itouch-as-a-phone-sure-all-you-need-is-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/itouch-as-a-phone-sure-all-you-need-is-wifi\/","title":{"rendered":"itouch as a phone? &#8230; Sure, all you need is WIFI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/truphone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-750\" title=\"truphone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/truphone-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/truphone-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/truphone.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just read in <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.techcrunch.com\/2008\/12\/03\/call-me-on-my-ipod-touch-truphone-releases-app-for-the-kids\/\">TechCrunch <\/a>about a new itouch app by UK-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truphone.com\/\">Truphone<\/a> that allows you to make phone calls on your itouch if you have WIFI access. Sounds pretty good. Calls are free to other itouch users as well as other supported mobile devices and low rates to those outside the system, much like Skype. What is interesting to me here is idea of taking an itouch and getting near iphone capabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">Still missing is GPS, but check out this project adding GPS to the itouch and the first iPhone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/?p=547\">Past write up on iGPS\u00a0and xGPS.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now Truphone is not your only option.\u00a0 There is <a href=\"http:\/\/jajah.com\/\">Jajah <\/a>and my favorite, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fring.com\/\">Fring<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/?p=364\">Past write up on Fring and saving money calling overseas.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, between being able to make call, plugin GPS, all we need now is a way to connect a 3G card and we have all but incoming call iphone!<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H3>Related Posts<\/H3><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Record a conversation on skype or other VoIP application\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/record-a-conversation-on-skype-or-other-voip-application\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Record a conversation on skype or other VoIP application<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The top 10 or 20 apps you need to get for your new ipad 2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/the-top-10-or-20-ipad-apps-you-need-to-get-for-your-new-ipad-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The top 10 or 20 apps you need to get for your new ipad 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Yet another scam to watch out for.  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Calls are free to other itouch users as well as other supported mobile devices and low rates to those outside the system, much like Skype.&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/itouch-as-a-phone-sure-all-you-need-is-wifi\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,187],"tags":[97,191,2359,190,189,188,111],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-review","category-itouch","tag-fring","tag-igps","tag-itouch","tag-jajah","tag-truphone","tag-voip","tag-xgps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pjzQD-c7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}