Gmail’s free voice calls will be available through all of 2011, still only in the US
While the rest of the world has yet to taste the sweet elixir of free voice calls from its email supplier, US-based Gmailers are having their fun extended for a whole new year.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: calls, elixir, engadget, entry, free-calls, free-voice, freecalling, holiday, service-free, voicecalls
Orange begins HD Voice trial in Southern England, leaves out Buckingham Palace
Remember the good news that Orange brought to the UK on our alcohol-fueled New Year's Eve?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: bandwidth, buckingham, from-yesterday, fruit, keen, orange, orange uk, orangeuk, participants, release, voice quality, voicecalls, voicequality, wb-amr, year
iPad won’t handle GSM voice calls — or will it?
Like the camera references , this could just be another case of vestigial SDK weirdness -- but for whatever reason, devs have noticed (and we've been able to reproduce ) a "Touch to return to call" bar in the iPad emulator just like you'd expect to find on an iPhone during a traditional GSM call. It certainly seems like Steve would've bothered to mention during today's festivities if you could do something crazy like pair up a Bluetooth headset and go to town (and you'd need a voice plan on top of that $29.99 data anyway), so who knows: either Apple's just made every UI element as adaptable as possible regardless of whether it's applicable to a particular device, they're planning a higher-res iPhone down the road, or they're integrating the bar into some VoIP action . Or..
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: another-case, apple, bluetooth, down-the-road, element, friend-via, gsm, iphone, iphonesdk, voicecalling, voicecalls, whatever-reason