How to Make Free Phone Calls from iPod Touch?

Dec. 23, 2010 - PRLog -- Well, I think that’s the question a lot of people have asked. And the huge demand has inspired some company to produce some accessories to enable iPod touch to make phone calls and send texts. For example, Yosion Technology from China has developed Apple Peel 520 to deliver that functions. But that’s not the electronic gadget what I’m going to talk about. Here what I want to share with you guys is a way to send/receive texts or make phone calls without any accessories. But for your reference, this only works if you have a microphone, 4th Gen iPod Touch or iPhone. Ok then, let’s check it out!

It only needs four major steps and 15 minutes tops to do this, so please be patient. First of all, you need to go to Google Voice to get a number. Here a GMail account is a must, so if you don’t have one, you need to create one. Once you are signed in, you can pick a free number by just choosing a random one, or by searching for digits that you want to appear in your number. Ok, that’s all need to be done for the first step.

Next, you have to download Google Voice from the App Store. It’s free, by the way. Enter the account information for the Google Voice number you just made, you are set to text your friends and receive text messages back for free. Oh, WiFi is needed for all that. This is a great alternative to paying for an unlimited texting plan. So, that’s pretty much how you got your free text.

Then, the following steps are how to make free phone calls. You’ll need an actual phone call because Google Voice is not a VoIP service, it’s just like an operator. To cope with that, you can download a free app Whistle Phone (http://itunes.apple.com/app/whistle-phone/id322326573?mt=8) from the App Store. It also gives you a number, but when you want to make a call, there is a short ad before it connects you. Here is the cool part. If you use Google Voice to call, it will call your Whistle Phone account and then call the number you want to call. This tricks Whistle into thinking it is being called so there is no ad. Pretty sweet huh? So, if you have got your Whistle number, that means you are almost done.

The last step is to configure your Google Voice to ring your Whistle Phone, which has to be done on a computer, or in the full web version of Google.com/voice. Under Settings>>Voice Settings>>Phones>>Forwards to, you will see “Add another phone.” Just enter your Whistle number and you are done. You are now free to call anyone. Google Voice also has a cool visual voicemail feature so that will transcribe the audio into text for when you do miss a phone call.

Okay, now you can make free phone calls anytime you want! Enjoy your free phone calls!

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