Line up of applications that can help you to turn your iPod touch into an iPhone

If you always wanted to own an iPhone without the contract from ATT, you can now have your way through an iPod touch. The elegant mp3 player is capable of simulating almost everything that your iPhone can. From a bird's eye view the only difference is that an iPhone can make a phone call. Other than that, most of the apps are available for both iPod and iPhone. We are going to give you ways to bridge this gap. There are a host of free applications that you can use to turn your iPod into an iPhone. Please read on for details of these applications.

Truphone app turns your iPod into a phone. Many older iPods don't have a mic, therefore you will need a way to use a microphone on your iPod touch. Truphone has developed such a device and available for sale at just $7.49 plus postage for non-UK and non-Eu customers, or for £4.99 plus postage otherwise. The Truphone for iPod Touch app lets you make FREE Phone calls to other Truphone users and many others including Skype, Google Talk etc., over Wi-Fi and even 3G or other Data Plan, wherever you are in the world! Truphone has created a kind of buzz in VoIP blogosphere recently.

Skype has launched its application for iPhone as well for iPod touch. This application lets you make free phone calls to your skype contacts. Right now, this application is free to use but they say that after 2010 there will be a small fee to use it. Again, you can use your internet connection over wi-fi or over 3G to make calls. You can also call your contacts not on skype by dialing their phone number using dialpad, you might have to buy some skype credit or get a subscription though.

Fring is a cool application with some really nice features such as Video calls to name one. Fring recently offered video calls using your phone over skype. This was even before iPhone 4 with facetime was released. However, in the very infamous recent fight between skype and Fring they no longer offer skype on their mobile client. However, you can still use fring to make free phone calls to your contacts over Gtalk, IMs etc. Also, you can configure your SIP settings in fring to use it as your sip phone. Most of the VoIP service provider that we reviewed can be configured using fring.

Whistle Phone is another option to make FREE Phone calls anywhere in USA. You also get a free phone number to receive incoming calls over your network. The only catch with whistle phone is that you need to listen to a 15 seconds ad before you can make an outgoing calls, remember RingPlus? But as per our experience it was not bad at all.

That was a small list of applications that are easy to start with. There are some more applications that can be tweaked to work as a SIP client on your iPod touch. However, above applications take care of all your needs for a Free Phone Call, IM etc. If you need assistance with anything related to above applications, or if you are aware of a way other than that published here, God made commenting possible for this day only. Feel free to comment.