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Line2 HD Puts Phone Capability on the iPad

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October 21, 2011

Line2 HD Puts Phone Capability on the iPad

By David Sims, TMCnet Contributing Editor


If you want to turn your iPad into a phone, or want the ability to do so in the hopes that then your wife might let you buy one if you emphasize the dazzling functionality – cough cough, dear, Line2 (News - Alert) HD is a good option.


The New York Times tech blogger, Roy Furchgott, recently noted that it’s an easy-to-use addition putting “phone calls, texts, voicemail and e-mail on a single screen,” along with other features.

It’s like the Line2 iPhone (News - Alert) app in that you can make or receive calls over a 3G or Wi-Fi connection, and you can receive texts and has voicemail. Furchgott notes that like Google Voice, you get a new number, and as he says after taking it for a test drive, it’s a nice little “easy-to-understand app that puts a phone on the iPad.”

Calls can be made using the iPad’s built-in microphone, Furchgott explains, “so you can use it as a speakerphone for conference-room calls, or you can use a wired mic.”

Early this year TMC’s (News - Alert) Calvin Azuri wrote that users of Android (News - Alert) phones and tablets can now download the groundbreaking Line2 app in the Android marketplace.  An announcement in this regard was been made by the developer of the first and only tri-mode VoIP/Cell calling app in the world, Toktumi (News - Alert) Inc.

“The app is an SMS-enabled VoIP app. Carrier-grade SMS texting will be featured for the first time by any VoIP app for Android. Feature-rich calling functionality has been combined with SMS texting by Line2,” Azuri wrote. “Customers will be therefore able to use one number for both types of communication and they will be able to make phone calls and send texts with the app even where they don’t have cell reception.”

The app also helps the customers to reduce their cell bills. The advantage of Line2’s free port-in offer is also taken by many customers. The customers can then move an existing number to Line2 without any cost.

Furchgott wrote that a nice feature of the voicemail option is that “it can send an audio file to your email so you can listen over your computer, in case if you don’t have your iPad with you.” It also lets you forward calls to another phone.

The app is free, but as Furchgott says “that is just a come-on. To use the app you need to purchase an account, which is $10 a month or $100 a year, paid up front.” But when you consider unlimited calls from overseas without paying international calling fees it doesn’t sound so bad, does it?



David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of David’s articles, please visit his columnist page. He also blogs for TMCnet here.

Edited by Jennifer Russell







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