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Use your iPhone to make long-distance calls at local wireless rates – RingFree allows VoIP over GSM

By: , IntoMobile
Saturday, January 19th, 2008 at 1:50 PM

Now this is one intriguing method to make long-distance (international) phone calls for the price of local (domestic) wireless rates (not including any VoIP fees – which are incredibly cheap). RingFree basically allows you to call into their VoIP SIP server, pick the VoIP provider you’d like to use, and dial an international phone number – essentially allowing you to use your regular wireless minutes to make long-distance calls (say, to the UK, Finland, or Serbia).

RingFree brings multi-VoIP support to iPhone

The RingFree multi-VoIP service is available for iPhone users, and provides and iPhone-like numeric keypad to preserve that iPhone-feel.

Point your iPhone Safari browser to https://rf.com/ and register your iPhone number, some other relevant information, and then verify your PIN. It’s all fairly straightforward and hassle-free.

After you register, you are prompted to select your VoIP provider of choice, enter your destination phone number (via that iPhone-esque numeric keypad), and get your international call going for the price of domestic wireless minutes. There’s some JavaScript transferred over the EDGE data network to get things off and running, but it’s a small bit of code (you should have an unlimited data plan anyway).

Voice quality is reportedly good, and calls go through without too much delay. There’s no WiFi connection required and since barely any data is transferred, you don’t need a strong EDGE signal. Oh, and Google Talk and MSN Voice is supported too.

[Via: iPhone Atlas]

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Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • sebastian

    Thank you for this. This is the most useful iPhone application yet. I set it up in less than 2 minutes and I made a call to Ireland using Gizmo Project. Sweet and simple. I am happy and would be jumping up and down with joy if it let me call Skypers.

  • William

    Is RingFree a callback solution?