The rumors from mid-Dec. were confirmed on January 9th (yeah, we’re a bit late on this one; this certainly isn’t where JAJAH news comes first). Anyway, from the JAJAH Blog:
We are announcing today that we are going to support the iPhone as soon as it becomes available in June 2007.
Like the rest of the known planet, we just watched Steve Job’s introduction of the Apple iPhone. The JAJAH office is buzzing with excitement. It might be one of the most beautiful products ever created. And if you are in the business of bringing mobile VoIP to everyday people like we are, this is exciting news.
It’s not every day that someone changes the landscape of an industry with a single product announcement, but Apple has become known for it. The iPhone promises to change the way we think of mobile computing and communication the same way the iPod changed the way we think about music.
We are going to bring JAJAH Mobile to the iPhone as soon as it becomes available. iPhone users will be able to make free or very low cost global JAJAH calls with a single click, without a special download, other equipment, wi-fi or broadband access. You’ll just need to be a registered JAJAH user – and registration is free.
If you’re a JAJAH fan, you already know we have an Mac Address Book Plugin and JAJAH user, Greg Smithies has recently pulled together a Mac OS X JAJAH Widget. The iPhone solution will further extend our commitment to the Mac community.
Many of us at JAJAH are long-time Mac fans and we couldn’t be happier that Apple is bringing their design and innovations to the world of telephony.
Thanks Apple, and welcome to the world of Voice 2.0.
Source here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Notes: Back in December, we reported that German-language website “futureZone” had quoted Daniel Mattes, co-founder of JAJAH, as saying that JAJAH was in intense conversations with Apple over the use of JAJAH software for a mobile phone. We also mentioned that JAJAH has been described by some as a “Skype Killer.” (See related article below.)
JAJAH Mobile Web will allow you to make VoIP calls straight from the browser on your smartphone to anywhere in the world with no download, installation, or contract. Users just type in mobile.jajah.com into their mobile browser and enter their JAJAH user name and password. Then it’s just a 1-click call to any address in your JAJAH address book. That’s why you should be able to use that JAJAH offering on the Apple iPhone. If so, the iPhone becomes more valuable, but the price stays the same.
Now, the JAJAH blog post links to the JAJAH Mobile Plugin when they state, “We are going to bring JAJAH Mobile to the iPhone as soon as it becomes available.” The plugin would seem to require Apple’s blessing — which we haven’t heard Apple give, yet. Stay tuned.
JAJAH rates: http://www.jajah.com/info/rates/
Related article:
RUMOR: Apple ‘iPhone’ may include JAJAH VoIP software – December 15, 2006
Voice of Reason
“It won’t be any different for the iPhone other than you’ll be able to initiate a Jajah call from the iPhone rather from a computer.”
and avoid 59 cent roaming and cingulars long distance charge.
and you will be able to use anywhere you have cell service, not just wifi
I was hoping for VOIP , but this seems better.
The only way it would work well is if you had unlimited incoming calls with your cinqular plan.
I have that with my fido plan in Canada. me wonders if Rogers will offer unlimited incoming with iphone. methinks with jajah, probably not.
Dream on, people. You won’t be able to avoid roaming charges if you expect to make the call on your iphone itself. Here it is from the Jajah blog (the link given a few comments earlier):
Now with JAJAH Mobile, you are able to enter two numbers. The number you are calling ****and the number of a nearby local landline, like your hotel room, or a local mobile phone****. Jajah then connects the two phones you’ve listed.
So if you’d give your own iPhone number, you’d be on the hook for the regular roaming charges. I guess this is just marginally better than asking someone on the street to borrow their phone outright?
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some clarification:
1. jajah can be, and usually will be after initial set up, initiated on yr handset.
2. roaming charges are totally eliminated IF your carrier only charges you for outgoing calls: heres why: with jajah both the orignator and the receiver of the call BOTH are on the receiving end of the call.
3. the ONLY charge you need to pay to yr carrier is the split second packet/data uploading via GPRS that iniates the request to jajah to make the call.
4. calls to jajah registered users in the same country grouping is free.
5 calls to non-jajah registered fones or calls for certain calls made between mobile and land lines are charged a much cheaper per minute charge than typical international roaming charges . jajah is not stupid: they have priced their plan very well in terms of marketing their service. yes skype is cheaper, but unless you have a very specialized smart fon, you cant use skype on yr fon. very few of you have skype applet on ur fones. jajah also has obviously studied the roaming charges that international carriers charge, as the jajah charge is between 50% and 70% reduced from these charges (according to my quick survey of several Asian based carrier plans).
i have already given my staff in china and hk to install jajah on their fones immediately.