The success of Apple’s launch for iPhone and iPad has gave way to tremendous change in iPhone and iPad users’ perspective in using internet access for better savings.  Getting these Apple gadgets now are no longer a luxury but for practicality. With the use of VoIP technology, iPhone and iPad users now can save up to 50% or more with their phone bills.

When you get iPhone, you would be able to maximize your usage with the 3G and Wifi features. These features will help you to have internet access so you can use VoIP service. All you just need to do then is to download the SIP application in AppStore , and register your SIP Line from your voip provider. Once your SIP line is registered, you can starting making calls via voip gateway at a rate cheaper than your mobile provider is charging.  You have the option to use either  voip or mobile for both incoming and outgoing calls.

Below are the instructions on how to register your SIP line on your iPhone:

Download Sip Application from Appstore.

Open the application and go into the Accounts tab. Click on edit and then enter in my ID

Fill the SIP username and password (provided by your  VoIP provider)  and save.

Activate the account and return to the dialer, if the SIP button is green you can call via VoIP.

iPhone users in the US who have found ways to save calls through Skype will not be happy with the news that AT&T will be charging Skype to Skype calls by 2011. AT&T, which has the exclusive right to market iPhone in the US, has not yet disclosed as to how much would be the charges for Skype calls.  Currently, Skype to Skype call are free thus it would clog up the AT&T network.

Once AT&T will charge Skype calls, this might directly affect iPhone user’s interest to use Skype. Skype users might decide to switch to use VoIP which provides free calls to the same VoIP network.  With the users’ option to replace Skype with other VoIP, it will be more of a loss to Skype than AT&T.  VoIP will still require DATA access thus AT&T will still earn for the DATA services they offered to AT&T subscribers.

Is the clogging of AT&T network the only reason why AT&T will charge Skype to Skype calls or is it because Skype and Verizon’s current partnership will turn to be an exclusive partnership in the future? There are speculations that Skype and Verizon’s exclusive partnership will last for 3 to 3 years, and no other US carrier will be able to get what Skype has to offer.

iPad Release Creates More Demand for Mobile Internet

What’s the use of iPad with out internet connection? You cannot access applications and digital content with out internet connection. The release of iPad in the market has certainly increased the demand for mobile data services.

With the success of iPad, competitors will surely release their own version of iPad which will cater to people from all walks of life. In few months time, competing companies will have the almost same product with almost similar features and with the rates much appealing to the market.

This is the much awaited scenario by mobile providers; people using iPad have no choice but to get their Mobile Data package. “These factors will drive demand for data access, and the iPad along with similar devices provide a compelling new opportunity for mobile operators to increase data subscriptions and hence revenues,” As per Jan ten Sythoff from cellular-news.  They cannot deny the fact that the existence of VoIP technology had knocked them down, and the release of iPad has given them so much favor to recover the lost revenue.

I was having my research done over the internet then I stumble into information about e-Bay buying Skype.  So, I was wondering why the No. 1 auction and bidding site would want to invest on VoIP. Then some blogs are pointing to ebay’s interest in using Skype technology on eBay’s website. For ebay, the technology would simplify the bidding and auction activities since both parties can just communicate directly on the said site.

Then, there is another angle that ebay is getting billion richer each year that they have to invest their wealth, convert their assets to another profitable investment rather than keeping it and distribute it to shareholders. Thus, since VoIP is the most promising investment today, eBay decided to buy Skype.

Whether eBay decided to buy Skype to use VoIP technology on their website, or bought Skpe to multiply their assets, ebay have made the wrong move when buying Skype. eBay spent $2.6 billion in 2005 to purchase Skype but had never hold control of Skpe’s technology. Now, they are spending huge amount of money to come up with software that would be helpful in continuing to run the VoIP technology that they purchased through Skype.

Hopefully, eBay would be successful with this endeavor and could come up with new development in VoIP world; otherwise they will less likely loose their customers. As of the moment, eBay pursuit for the right to the Skype technology is still under litigation. We just wait and see then what’s next between Skype and eBay.

You can make free calls with any SIP software that you download from the net. Some of them already have native SIP software e.g. on Windows Mobile 5 or 6

Some interesting SIP compatible software is Fring. Only problem with Fring is inbound calls and dome delays.

Watch out that all of those smartphones will not offer the compatibility with SIP softs.

Extract for Cellular news:

“The fastest growing segment in the market by far is the dual-mode WiFi/cellular VoIP phone, with worldwide units shipping at a phenomenal rate: Infonetics forecasts a 5-year compound annual growth rate of 198% between 2006 and 2010.”

What is dual mode? We can say Smartphone with WiFi and compatible SIP capability. But we have to write about the real first dual mode GSM/VoIP : Pirelli.

Pirelli is not only a great annual calendar or tires, this Italian firm has created one of the first VoIP phone where you could put a SIM card and use it with mobile operator.

Anyhow, how to make free calls on a wifi…to be followed