Gizmo5 and Google Voice
All you need to do is download the right app, register, buy calling minutes with your credit card and keep going making cheap international calls and local calls. If you have even an average quality WiFi signal, there is no reason you should have dropped calls, static or voice delays. Everyone either knows about Skype or has an account. Downloading the Skype app on the iPhone and getting going is elementary, and it is a wonder everyone isn’t doing it yet. Perhaps everyone still has the kind of doubtful call quality on the brain they had when they first experienced Internet calling a couple of years ago.
So how do all the apps stack up? Cheap international calls to Europe on Skype will cost you two cents every minute; on iCall, a recent competitor, they will cost you five cents a minute. The calls are as good as on any landline too. Calls to Canada and Mexico will cost you just one cent a minute on iCall, and two on Skype. If you don’t want to be counting pennies, Skype will sell you a service for three dollars a month that will give you unlimited calling all over North America. iCall has a better deal. for $10 a month, you can call anywhere in the world, if you don’t mind being interrupted by a few advertisements.
There are exciting things planned on Gizmo5 and Google Voice soon. Gizmo5 gets you free WiFi calls, Google, the new owner of Gizmo5, has its free Google Voice to throw into the mix. Cheap international calls are probably going to make way for free international calls soon. Stay tuned.