05-20-2008, 01:34 PM
. . .old news but in case you didn't know. . .copied as bestest as I could. . .
. . .certain things are required like grandcentral which is closed to new members, unless you can get an invitation. . .
FREE calling to any U.S. phone from your iPhone. . .
This method REQUIRES a WiFi connection and jailbroken iPhone!!!
You need 3 accounts:
1) grandcentral at the MISSING LINK. . .
2) gizmo at the MISSING LINK. . .
3) Fring on your iPhone the MISSING LINK. . .
Watch gigafied’s video to get started:
the MISSING LINK. . .
You don’t need to install Gizmo if you’re using just the iPhone. But free calling from the PC will require the softphone of Gizmo.
The extra step Unique311 shows is adding the gizmo number to each contact in grandcentral. For the iPhone, watch up to 1:32. By the way, you have to enter contacts that you want to call on your iPhone in grandcentral on your PC, and unfortunately that’s still a manual process. Here's Unique311's video:
the MISSING LINK. . .
Now...install Fring. Instructions here:
the MISSING LINK. . .
Once you get Fring installed
Open Fring.
Tap “Communities”
Tap SIP
Enter your Gizmo username and password
Enter Proxy as: proxy01.sipphone.com
I then tap on the “Dialer”
Leave that open (Don't "Exit") and click the “Home” button to go back to the Springboard.
Open Safari.
Go to the MISSING LINK. . .
Log in.
Click “Contacts.”
Click a contact.
Click the word “call” next to the phone number. Fring will pop up and ask you to Accept or Decline. Click Accept and your free call is placed. (If you accidentally click the phone number, a black/gray screen pops up with the number and you can Cancel or Call. Cancel this. This is placing your call over the cell/mobile providers network = not free.)
It sounds complicated, but once you get setup and grandcentral bookmarked – it only takes a few seconds to make a call.
Fring is Beta, but it worked well on my one-hour free call from Berlin, Germany to Minnesota last night.
Use the Gizmo softphone (just leave it open when calling from grandcentral) for free PC calls and similar VOIP phones on Windows Mobile and the Nokia Internet Tablets.
. . .certain things are required like grandcentral which is closed to new members, unless you can get an invitation. . .
FREE calling to any U.S. phone from your iPhone. . .
This method REQUIRES a WiFi connection and jailbroken iPhone!!!
You need 3 accounts:
1) grandcentral at the MISSING LINK. . .
2) gizmo at the MISSING LINK. . .
3) Fring on your iPhone the MISSING LINK. . .
Watch gigafied’s video to get started:
the MISSING LINK. . .
You don’t need to install Gizmo if you’re using just the iPhone. But free calling from the PC will require the softphone of Gizmo.
The extra step Unique311 shows is adding the gizmo number to each contact in grandcentral. For the iPhone, watch up to 1:32. By the way, you have to enter contacts that you want to call on your iPhone in grandcentral on your PC, and unfortunately that’s still a manual process. Here's Unique311's video:
the MISSING LINK. . .
Now...install Fring. Instructions here:
the MISSING LINK. . .
Once you get Fring installed
Open Fring.
Tap “Communities”
Tap SIP
Enter your Gizmo username and password
Enter Proxy as: proxy01.sipphone.com
I then tap on the “Dialer”
Leave that open (Don't "Exit") and click the “Home” button to go back to the Springboard.
Open Safari.
Go to the MISSING LINK. . .
Log in.
Click “Contacts.”
Click a contact.
Click the word “call” next to the phone number. Fring will pop up and ask you to Accept or Decline. Click Accept and your free call is placed. (If you accidentally click the phone number, a black/gray screen pops up with the number and you can Cancel or Call. Cancel this. This is placing your call over the cell/mobile providers network = not free.)
It sounds complicated, but once you get setup and grandcentral bookmarked – it only takes a few seconds to make a call.
Fring is Beta, but it worked well on my one-hour free call from Berlin, Germany to Minnesota last night.
Use the Gizmo softphone (just leave it open when calling from grandcentral) for free PC calls and similar VOIP phones on Windows Mobile and the Nokia Internet Tablets.
