14 DAY TRIAL // Swedish company freephoo has recently launched a free iPad application with the same name allowing iPad users to place and receive calls for free as long as everyone stays in the freephoo circle. The app can also call cell and landlines for a fee.
Whether or not the developers have heard there’s Skype, Fring and other prominent VoIP services to compete against, they’re launching freephoo in the wild to see how people like it.
Sweden, that is, as freephoo is currently only available in the Swedish iPad App Store, though the app’s interface does support multiple languages, including English, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, and Spanish.
“The iPad has no native support for telephony, but with freephoo all iPad users can finally use their iPads as a phone together with their current mobile number,” the developers explain, referring to the app’s functionality.
Pandelis Eliopoulos, freephoo CEO, wishes to stress this even harder, saying: "iPad is an amazing product but we lacked the ability to make and receive calls. Some see this as a major limitation so we are proud to be able to solve this in a favourable way for all iPad users.”
Freephoo does have its originality, though. According to the developers, it is one of the first services on the App Store to allow the user to purchase premium minutes through Apples own in-app-purchase payment system.
"Our application is a unique hybrid. It combines the best of mobile VoIP with the possibility to call traditional numbers to unique rates. This gives our users the ability to call all freephoo users for free and to billions of mobile and fixed phones at exceptional rates." Pandelis Eliopoulos added.
If you live in Sweden, go ahead and download the app using the iTunes link below.