VoIP on your Apple iPod touch for $49.99 (plus a little soldering)

Thursday, January 3, 2008 · 4:40 pm · 22 Comments

Want VoIP for your Apple iPod touch?

Step 1: Buy a US$49.99 Macally iVoiceIII microphone for iPod and warm up your soldering iron (you solder one wire onto the microphone’s circuit board; there’s no iPod touch soldering involved).

Then, just follow rob.tc’s simple instructions here.

You’ll also need “SIP/VOIP Application for the iPod touch” which can be found here. Read the FAQ here. This does require the need to jailbreak the iPod touch.

Direct link via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmUPRrrxoVc

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22 Comments

deepdish

Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 5:42 pm · Reply

soldering

on my iphone

ya, right

ChrissyOne

Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 5:46 pm · Reply

Sounds like you get a sweet delay effect, too.

FREE BIRD!!!

ChrissyOne

Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 5:46 pm · Reply

Are those Rush Limbaugh’s hands?

rhapsycats

Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 5:51 pm · Reply

Whats cool is this is an iPod Touch…Not an iPhone.

HMCIV

Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 6:14 pm · Reply

Supposed we solder our iPod touch by mistake…?

lolick

Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 6:16 pm · Reply

as AAPL and others put the evil cell providers out of business….

hum, what to buy long and what to sell short?

Swing Geezer

Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 6:22 pm · Reply

You don’t get an echo, unless you are in the same room as the person you are calling. Kinda dumb if you are in the same room. You should just talk louder!!
The delay is only noticeable if you happen to be calling someone in the same room. (see above)
You only have to make a solder connection to mic. Not the i-phone.

All in all, it’s kind of a cool excercise.

mr_matalino

Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 6:23 pm · Reply

Why not just buy an iPhone and not activate the cell side? It already has a mic… $50 more minus the extra hardware

Paul Johnson

Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 6:24 pm · Reply

I predicted this here when the iPod touch was released. Thanks to all of you who scoffed at me!

Tommy Boy

Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 6:36 pm · Reply

@mr_matalino: Let’s see $50 + 2 year contract ($1200 and up) + service with 1 provider in each of 4 countries only vs. a $50 microphone and a little work and no contract and works in any country with internet access.

Then again I own an iPhone.

Jubei

Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 6:57 pm · Reply

So much fun. Kinda reminds me of the days when you up the clock speeds on the first PowerPC 6100′s by inserting a clothespin type device on the logic board, then inserting a little fan on top of the cpu to keep it cool. Didn’t void the warranty, but it was a fun little project to do.

G4Dualie

Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 6:59 pm · Reply

deepdish is a maroon… no mention of the iPhone at all and FYI, there is no soldering required on the Touch either.

MegaMe

Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 7:06 pm · Reply

oh ya. G4Dualle is a maroon. so there.

idiot

Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 7:09 pm · Reply

how maroonic

Shogun

Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 9:07 pm · Reply

@ Paul Johnson

I predicted this here when the iPod touch was released. Thanks to all of you who scoffed at me!

I scoff at your brazen scoffing of us scoffers.

Walter

Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 10:12 pm · Reply

No no no, I am the maroonic one!

I touched the tip of the hot soldering gun to the face of my iPhone, trying to do what this procedure – then realized it’s the iTouch he is doing – Duh!

BUD

Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 10:15 pm · Reply

Hurray – Google GeePhone has arrived early.

THX