Recently, Skype launched an app for the iPhone for its free Voice over IP service. I downloaded it and installed it on my iPhone the other day and liked it quite a bit. My brother lives in a different city — since we're both on the computer 24×7 and we work together we use Skype everyday. My brother has an iPod Touch and so of course he installed Skype and we tried it out — he could hear me but we couldn't hold a conversation because his iPod Touch has no mic. Well, I did a little research and as it turns out, the same microphone accessories that work with the iPhone also work with the iPod Touch. Here are a couple of places you can go to learn about them:
This is a MacWorld article from a year ago that reviews different third party microphone adapters:
https://blairwilliams.com/y1x
This is a link to the Griffen Mic Adapter which was the #1 mic adapter MacWorld reviewed — I'm probably going to get this one, it's only $19.99:
https://blairwilliams.com/8v2
The Apple iPhone headphones will also work with the iPod Touch 2G — This one should definitely work but costs $29.99:
https://blairwilliams.com/kzm
With this small cost (assuming you already have an iPod Touch), you can have yourself a skype phone that you can use anywhere you can get wireless Internet. Well, even though I don't have an iPod Touch, I'm planning on taking advantage of Skype to help me keep my minutes down. I've got my Google Voice account and I'll be using it to route calls to skype first and then my phone — since I'm around a Wi-Fi connection 90% of the time, this should help me at least conserve minutes. For your business you can use the voip phone systems melbourne.
Oh, wow!
That is wicked cool! I may just have to get an I-Pod touch now. My dad has one, and I don’t. How weird is that?
I am going to forward this article to him and see if he can figure out how it works without my help. lol.
any idea if this will work on the vodafone 360 samsung M1 blair? If it does it will be the only bleedin’ does! lol
where can it be downloaded btw? perhaps i can find more info there.
apologies for the nonsense there, was trying to send from my samsung M1. Edit time ran out before i could get it right. *sigh
Just hope it sends this correctly or this could get embarrasing. Haha
I thank you for the article. I give it a try because I play Skype
Great post, I have been waiting for that!?
Thanks for this, I have been trying to work out how to convert my iPod touch into a Skype phone for ages! Knew there was a way!
Can anyone confirm this works on the 4th generation iPod Touch?