JAJAH lets you make low cost calls directly from your iPhone to virtually any other phone in the world, without needing a Wi-fi connection. It’s simple. No contracts, no downloads, no activation fees. Calls between the U.S. and most of Europe are free between registered users dialing from http://www.jajah.com. Other calls are ultra-low cost, for example: The JAJAH rate between the U.S. and U.K. is 3¢ per minute vs. the AT&T rate of 23¢.
How to use it:
1. Go to mobile.jajah.com on your iPhone’s browser
2. If you’re already a registered JAJAH user, you use it the way it always works. Just enter the number you are calling, hit call and you’re done.
If you are new to JAJAH, you can sign-up right from your iPhone. The new JAJAH Interface combined with the iPhone ease of use, makes getting started easier than it’s ever been:
1. Go to mobile.jajah.com. Resize the app to fit the iPhone window using your fingers , of course. (what a great feature)
2. Enter your email and your iPhone’s number (this information will never be given out to anyone)
3. Touch “Register”
4. Shortly, your iPhone will signal you that you have received and SMS. It contains a temporary password. Got get it,
5. Touch the Safari icon on the bottom of your home screen. Notice that Safari is still open to your JAJAH screen. Enter your temporary password. You’re done.
6. Make a trial call. Touch the blank number window on the screen. It will automatically open the iPhones keyboard. enter the number you want to call (be sure to add the country code even for U.S. calls (+1) . (Alternatively, you can make the test call to the JAJAH number in the address book, simply by touching on it)
7. Touch “Call”. Your iPhone will ring (this may surprise you, but it’s how JAJAH works) answer it. At the same time, your friends phone is also ringing. You both answer and talk. JAJAH works on calls to virtually any phone in the world, landline or mobile.
8. The trial call will last a different length depending on where you are calling. After your trial call, you’ll want to put money into your JAJAH account so you can continue to make low – cost global calls. Go to http://www.jajah.com on your computer desktop, log in using the password you just received. To change your password, buy credit or to manage your account, that’s the place to do it.
More info: http://www.freeyouriphone.com/
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “hotinplaya” for the heads up.]
Call to tease people that they have no iPhone for 90% less!?!
Jah Rasta Fara! may the force be with you!!
And the bloody FUD mongers tried to say that developing software for the iphone was not going to work because developers were sandboxed into safari thus couldn’t embed their widgets or programs directly onto the iphone……..
YOU HAVE BEEN PROVEN WRONG pretty quickly haven’t you?
Well done JAHJAH!
Well…I’m sittin on my Jajah waitin for my iPhone….
skype.
I am a little confused, if you are overseas (Mexico) and call back to the States, will you be roaming with AT$T
I haven’t used the mobile version, but the desk top version works well, and I found it to be easier than skype
THIS is the killer function lurking on the iPhone and why I said I’d buy one without any cell function/service. I’m always near WiFi spots so why pay ludicrous cell fees. Bring on Jajah, Skype, and eventually even Apple’s own iChat as better alternatives.
I knew some clever developer would make something like this work on iPhone using a web-based app. This is only the beginning. Except for the need to be connected to the Internet, I don’t think there are any real limits to what can be done with these web-based apps. It’s the future, not just on iPhone, but on all computer. Apple’s leading the way…
Meeesa save-a you some-a money on sa telee phone chargeeez
“YOU HAVE BEEN PROVEN WRONG pretty quickly haven’t you?”
No dickwad. this is not a VOIP app for your phone. This is a server based system which takes it’s input from a web page then Jajah makes two outbound phone calls from local servers and links them together using a VOIP connection between Jajah’s servers. It’ll still use your iPhone minutes.
It’ll work with any two phones, landlines, whatever. It can be initiated from any device which can browse the web.
This is extremely cool JAJAH i just saw it yesterday.
The best calling card system out there.
HOw is it going to save iPhone users anymore then other Phone users though… I miss that point.
Must read it again.
And “SORRY” is absolutley CORRECT!!!
It works just as he says. The iPhone with its Safari browser makes this a BEAUTIFUL combination.
In time… look out for APPLE to take serious interest in Jajah… maybe buy them out or something… cos this is the FUTURE of phone calling everywhere… iPhone to iPhone world wide.
prediction: Apple invests or buys jajah in one year.
” I am a little confused, if you are overseas (Mexico) “
Yes you are a little confused.
@Wilburt
It will save iPhone users 90% because AT&T charges more then JAJAH for long distance rate.
Yet, you are right, generally, the price that Jajah is offering is a great savings for all long distance callers – yes… even if ya don’t have a iPhone.
@artist
okay, give me a break, we are in the Yucatan , close to Cancun, and our connection to the States is Miami (by air)
Similar, but better then SKYPE; easier too.
Don’t confuse yourself Artist, Perhaps you are sea sick?
Hmmm – nice idea – Jajah being bought buy Apple, hence releasing it’s self from AT&T in the long haul. But I think it’s a little early.
@ Sorry
> It’ll still use your iPhone minutes.
Why would it use your iPhone voice calling minutes? It’s going through the web browser. It would use data minutes, except that’s unlimited on the iPhone plans. Or, if you’re in a Wi-Fi area, it wouldn’t use “minutes” at all.
This is a great example of a web-based iPhone app. In a few months, the complaints about not being able to add “true” iPhone apps will seem silly.
“Why would it use your iPhone voice calling minutes?”
Because it makes a voice call back to you from a JaJah server, which you answer.
Imagine that you’re calling a central system which computes the two closest servers to you and your friend, gets them to make outbound calls to each end (avoiding long distance cost) then connects them together over the Internet. But since what your iPhone sees is an inbound voice call, you pay (or use minutes)
If you initiate the call over WiFi, you will still use the voice minutes on your phone.
In fact you could initiate the call from your iPhone, but give it your home phone number to make the call back to.
Which is why it’s a GREAT idea for international long distance, but completely pointless for domestic long distance which is already included in the calling plan.
“Similar, but better then SKYPE; easier too.”
Except Skype from your phone uses your unlimited data capacity and JaJah uses your voice minutes.
A “VOIP” app which uses your phone minutes, and then charges you some more money. Lame.
JaJa is dependent on the iPhone’s wifi system.
IPhone’s wifi system, in my case, simply doesn’t work in any way.
The wifi system was advertised as something that simply works yet it doesn’t. Apple has inadequately tested these devices, apparently, not to mention offering inadequate accompanying instructions.
How long does one wait before declaring an iPhone a lemon?
Do you think that the 100 or so “insiders” tried this little trick while they were testing the iPhone before release? This has been available for JAJAH for a while. And it is good – meybe even a bit better than SKYPE but I do like the webcam ability of SKYPE.
MDN = test as in “Hallo, Phil. This is Andre in Paris. How do you like the reception. Is it good?” Phil responds” JAJAH, I thnk this little test is great!”
“JaJa is dependent on the iPhone’s wifi system.”
No, it isn’t. You can initiate a call from your laptop etc (anything with a browser) using your home phone or iPhone as one of the destinations.
“it is good – meybe even a bit better than SKYPE “
Except that Skype give you completely free VOIP calls, and JaJah uses your phone minutes, incurs roaming charges if somebody calls you using it while you’re overseas etc etc.
JaJah is basically a glorified calling card with a web based instead of touchtone based interface for setting up the call. They are completely different classes of applications, JaJah has much more limited usefulness. Basically it’s only any good to reduce long distance international phone charges.
To say it’s an “iPhone application” is about as true as saying a calling card is an “iPhone application”. It works with normal telephones, anything Ma Bell produced in the last 100 years. There’s no client side aspect to it at all.
@ sorry,
The point is:- they are the first to capitalise on the iphone by creating a widget you can download onto your iphone.
The rest of the detail is a moot point since we have yet to see any other business take advatage of the iphones capabilities, Note Life Record has just been released for the iphone, is your take going to be similar as above?
People,
“Sorry” is right you guys. Try to read what he’s writing because he’s doing a great job explaining it.
OK, it’s a new app for the iPhone. Great. But it is not as useful as true VOIP like Skype. Again, you will incur minutes and you will be roaming if you’re outside your service area. A Skype app on the iPhone would kick a** because you are using the wifi part (data) of your phone, not your minutes. This is why I believe ATT will try to stifle all VOIP widgets to come.
“Note Life Record has just been released for the iphone, is your take going to be similar as above?”
For any “iPhone application” that is basically just a web page that you browse to using the phone, my take would be the same.
Why don’t you announce that new apps called “MDN” “The Washington Post” and “the Podunk news” have been released for the iPhone, along with millions of other websites – I mean “iPhone Apps”…