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iPod touch iPod Touch as home phone

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sammyman

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Would it be possible to use an ipod touch as a home phone device with the new fring app? What are your thoughts?
 
If you want to make having a home phone a living hell, then yeah 😡.

Fring is good for showing off and maybe to save money in the right circumstances, but overall the voice quality is not that good and the delay drives me insane! Keep your home phone or get an actual Skype/VoIP phone.
 
or just download skype and stuff on your computer or some other VOIP program and use that as a home phone(ish)
 
I assume u have one of the new ipod touches? otherwise how would you know when it rung if its the 1st generation lol
 
andybno1 said:
I assume u have one of the new ipod touches? otherwise how would you know when it rung if its the 1st generation lol
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Yes it is a new touch. What was the difference between the 1st gen and 2nd that would allow me to know when it rings?
 
andybno1 said:
yep what he said, 1st ipod has no external speaker so you would miss calls if you didn't have ear phones in
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That makes sense. I still don't see why skype would be better on a computer than on fring on an ipod touch? Seems like it would be the same thing....
 
sammyman said:
That makes sense. I still don't see why skype would be better on a computer than on fring on an ipod touch? Seems like it would be the same thing....
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The iPod Touch is slower on Wi-Fi than a computer, and the app seems buggy (bad quality, occasional crashes).
 
sammyman said:
That makes sense. I still don't see why skype would be better on a computer than on fring on an ipod touch? Seems like it would be the same thing....
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First of all, don't you want to use the iPod while its at home too? You need to have Fring open the whole time. The iPod doesn't really multitask. Plus, Fring's VoIP capabilities should only be used casually, not as a dedicated home VoIP phone. Just use your computer if that's what you want.

EDIT: You have an iPhone already! No point in buying an iPod for VoIP...
 
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