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
soldering
on my iphone
ya, right
Sounds like you get a sweet delay effect, too.
FREE BIRD!!!
Are those Rush Limbaugh’s hands?
Whats cool is this is an iPod Touch…Not an iPhone.
Supposed we solder our iPod touch by mistake…? 😕
as AAPL and others put the evil cell providers out of business….
hum, what to buy long and what to sell short?
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.
Why not just buy an iPhone and not activate the cell side? It already has a mic… $50 more minus the extra hardware
I predicted this here when the iPod touch was released. Thanks to all of you who scoffed at me!
@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.
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.
deepdish is a maroon… no mention of the iPhone at all and FYI, there is no soldering required on the Touch either.
oh ya. G4Dualle is a maroon. so there.
how maroonic
@ 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.
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!
Hurray – Google GeePhone has arrived early.
THX
I’m with mr_matalino. An iPhone would be far easier (and more elegant).
Wow! Some people just can’t read or are too lazy to read. You DON’T solder the iPod, you solder the external MIKE!
Wow! Some people just can’t spell or perhaps are too lazy to learn how to spell.
It’s mic not mike.
I’m just sayin’…
And I’m kidding too…
@Tommy Boy: ” 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.”
But it doesn’t work by the side of the road in the middle of nowhere in a snowstorm, which is the other reason we buy a cell-phone. Do you guys never leave your basements?
@ Tommy Boy
I don’t think you understood my comment….