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Easy Steps to Turn Your iPod Touch into a Free Phone

by Ella on Aug 4, 2010

They might look the same, but word on the street says the iPhone is the real deal, while the iPod Touch is…an in-house phony.

Now that might not truly be the case, but there are plenty of iPod Touch users out there that would like to, you know, once in awhile make a phone call (and prove to their iPhone counterparts that, yes, in fact, they are the real deal). Worry no more: Lifehacker’s Adam Pash figured out how to make VoIP phone calls from your iPod touch (or iPhone) with a small freeware application called SIP-VoIP.

If you’re not afraid of voiding your warranty for the ultimate bragging rights (well, ahem, short of actually owning an iPhone), it takes three simple steps: “Jailbreaking” or unlocking your iPod Touch, installing SIP-VoIP, and setting the whole thing up to make and receive calls.

If that sounds like a great way to spend a weekend, and you don’t mind signing up for things on the Internet, read on for a...Read More >>