A New VOIP Application For The IPhone

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on June 04

Here’s some news that should cheer the owners of jailbroken iPhones: There’s a new bit of Voice Over IP software available. The company offering it is San Francisco-based sipgate, and its Web site is already live should be going live today. The sipgate application will work with any SIP-based VOIP service. (The one I always think of is Gizmo5.) The application works via Wi-Fi connections (EDGE isn’t fast enough). And even if you don’t have an account with a SIP provider, sipgate is throwing in 111 minutes worth of free domestic calling.

Sipgate isn’t the first VOIP provider to hit the iPhone. The first was Fring, which is tied to multiple services, and as it happens works with Skype. Sipgate won’t work with Skype, but will work with existing SIP numbers meaning you can make calls from different numbers on a single iPhone.

Sipgate wants to develop VOIP applications for other devices too, CEO Thilo Salmon told me but decided to debut on the iPhone. Eventually it plans to offer SIP-based VOIP calling applications aimed at small and large businesses.

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