http://rf.com Internet calling for the iPhone Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:48:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When Erica Sadun of The Unofficial Apple Weblog contacted us a couple of weeks ago because she wanted to write about RF.com, we were quite honored. From the moment Eric Chamberlain and I got our hands on the initial production models of the iPhone and we got to working on RF.com, ... http://rf.com/blog/2008/07/03/nimbler-registrations-48/ If you happened to take a peek at the small pulldown menu at the top of the RF dialer this morning, you may have noticed a new service offering. Yes, just in time for the announcement of a whole new iPhone at Apple's World Wide Developer' Conference, we've added Skype calling ... http://rf.com/blog/2008/06/09/skype-calling-from-the-iphone-added-to-rfcom-47/ There have been a couple of applications released of late that pack some of the features offered by the RF dialer. The folks behind these apps are tripping over one another trying to be known as the first "real Voice over IP" application for the iPhone. Apparently, to some developers (and ... http://rf.com/blog/2008/06/06/what-is-real-voip-anyway-46/ While we made RingFree a web application that doesn't need any hacks to run on the iPhone, there are still certain things you'll want to make sure are operational before registering with RF. Some folks are still reporting problems when registering.We're quite certain, though, that checking the list below and correctly ... http://rf.com/blog/2008/02/02/readying-your-iphone-for-ringfree-29/ We've been big fans of Televolution's PhoneGnome for quite a long time now. It's an affordable and easy to use VoIP product/service that packs a wallop when it comes to functionality. When we started working on RingFree, we knew we wanted the first release of our product to work with PhoneGnome. ... http://rf.com/blog/2008/02/01/phonegnome-sporting-the-ringfree-interface-28/ Sometimes we stop ourselves from making a call because of cost. The cost of a call on a traditional phone network is usually linked to the cost of carrying signals and audio over long geographical distances. Advances in network and software technologies allow service providers and voice carriers to reduce ... http://rf.com/blog/2008/02/01/what-limits-anyones-ability-to-make-a-call-27/ Before RingFree escaped out into the wild a couple of weeks back, we had been going back and forth about how much to charge. That we need to generate revenues for RF to survive goes without saying. Hardware and bandwidth costs alone are large and continue to grow as we continue ... http://rf.com/blog/2008/01/28/what-the-free-in-ringfree-now-means-26/ We've made a lot of changes to the RF dialer over the past 10 days, and have put them into the production version, now at 0.2.0. We've added Recent call and Favorites list "Click-to-Call" functionality, revised and beefed up the dialer pulldown menus, fixed some tricky URL encoding problems when making ... http://rf.com/blog/2008/01/28/faves-recents-added-much-fixed-in-rf-version-020-25/ Most of you probably know, and those of you who don't can easily find out, that RingFree is currently being offered as trial ware: You get to try it out for 30 days, and if you would like to continue, we ask that you pay $30 per year. Now, none of ... http://rf.com/blog/2008/01/26/ringfree-pricing-changes-coming-23/ When RingFree's Eric Chamberlain sent the rest of the team his OmniGraffle flow charts describing an on-iPhone registration process for RF that was simple and required a minimum of user keyboard input, we were mostly hooked. Some of us, though, were skeptical: Could the iPhone handle it? The answer so far ... http://rf.com/blog/2008/01/26/edge-of-registration-22/