A glimmer of hope for those iPhone owners who want a SIP-compatible VoIP client for their cellphones, as a collaboration between iPod Touch fan-site Touchmods.net and French ADSL ISP Free.fr results in a software client that allows their subscribers to make free phonecalls via their Apple device. Called Siphon, the app is currently locked to the Free.fr network (the ISP ‘paid’ Touchmods to develop the software by donating an iPhone to them) but apparently a commercial release that will operate with multiple SIP providers is set to launch at an unspecified point in the future.
The announcement has prompted controversy over at Touchmods.net, however, with some readers criticising the team for a) seemingly prioritising the iPhone with their software release, and b) locking it to Free.fr despite a number of financial donations from the fan community who have been interested in a VoIP program for the iPod Touch. Touchmods are set to release an ‘open’ version in the near future, though they have warned that this will be “time-limited”.
[via Apple-Touch]
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I liked your use of the word “factoid.” The definition of which of course, is not a small fact, but something that looks like a fact and substitutes for a fact when the truth is no known or matters (like a humanoid may not be a human).
Well Eric, nobody ever said Wikipedia was entirely accurate :)
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Yes! Wikipedia is full of factoids ;)
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