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Vonage Extensions Lets You Use Your Android Phone As a Vonage Phone

Vonage Extensions is a great little app for Vonage users: It gives you unlimited international calling from your Android phone (if your Vonage plan has unlimited calling, that is). So anywhere you go, you get the same deal as you get for Vonage at home. [Android Market via Phandroid]

Vonage Is Giving Away 15 Free International Minutes to Downloaders Of Its Free App

To suck people into downloading their free app, Vonage is giving away 15 minutes’ free international calling. Thereafter, you can pre-pay for bulk minutes, with the approximate cost being $2 per 15 minutes—billable to your iTunes. That rate works for 100 countries, but if your chosen country isn’t on that list, you can grab an…

Vonage Mobile App Lets You Call Facebook Friends From iPhone or Android For Free

Vonage, the VoIP company with the head-whacking commercials, has a new app for Android and iOS that lets users make free calls to Facebook friends over 3G and Wi-Fi. Finally, your reward for cultivating that extensive friends list. Logging into Facebook with the free Vonage Moible For Facebook app will indicate which of your friends…

Vonage VoIP Apps Now Available for T-Mobile and AT&T Android Phones

T-Mobile and AT&T customers with Android phones can now finally download a Vonage VoIP app to their devices to make cheap international calls over Wi-Fi or 3G. They’ll also get free domestic calls, but only over Wi-Fi. Vonage Delivers Worldwide Calling Savings to T-Mobile and AT&T Android Users HOLMDEL, N.J., April 9, 2010 /PRNewswire via…

Vonage VoIP Apps Arrive for iPhone/iPod Touch and BlackBerry

As expected, Apple and AT&T have barred Vonage’s international calling app from VoIP over 3G/EDGE. When you’re out of Wi-Fi range, it instead redirects your call to local access numbers, where you’re charged AT&T minutes as you access Vonage’s rates. https://gizmodo.com/apple-approves-vonage-mobile-voip-app-5350575 On the iPhone, Vonage calls can be made by dialing in the app, or…

Apple Approves Vonage Mobile VoIP App

Did our ranting and the FCCs investigation have an effect on Apple’s app approval process? First they approved Spotify’s streaming app, now they’ve approved Vonage’s Mobile VoIP app? How about revisiting the Google Voice app while Apple’s feeling nice? https://gizmodo.com/apples-chickenshit-approval-process-has-gone-too-far-5325539 According to CNET, Vonage is currently beta testing the Mobile VoIP app and expects to…

Hype Sheet: Electrocution is Comcastic!

The Pitch A harried mother, her face creased with exhaustion and dread, pleads with her son’s principal via telephone. It seems that little Sammy’s been expelled on account of some violent malfeasance. Mom promises that her demonic offspring has seen the light, but Sammy proves otherwise in the background; he inserts a vacuum in the…

Afternoon News: FBI Billboards, Radiohead Webcast, and Patents, Patents, Patents

• The FBI wants to install 150 digital billboards in 20 US cities in the next few weeks to show fugitives, missing people and gadget bloggers. [Network World] • Oft–discussed Radiohead will have a live webcast concert at midnight on January 1. It’s almost cool to stay home on New Year’s Eve now. [Pitchfork] •…

Vonage Ordered to Pay Verizon $120 Million

A recent lawsuit involving Verizon and Vonage has been settled, and Vonage has been ordered to pay Verizon $120 million due to patent infringements. The fine imposed on Vonage means they are edging closer to bankruptcy, with debts mounting to the sum of some $250 million prior to the court’s decision, it looks like Vonage…

Vonage Visual Voice Mail Hands On (Verdict: Mixed Success)

VoIP telephone service provider Vonage just began offering Visual Voice Mail, a text transcription service that turns all of your voicemail messages into text that’s immediately emailed to you. Using a combination of speech-to-text software and human transcribers, Vonage is charging 25 cents per transcription, which could end up getting expensive if you have a…

$400 Ooma Gives You Free VOIP and Landline Calls for Life

Companies such as Vonage had better look to their laurels, as new kid on the block Ooma is looking to steal their thunder with a product that offers VOIP calls—but with a twist. From September, you will be able to get your hands on the Ooma, a hub that combines VOIP with regular landlines. But…

SunRocket VoIP network has closed shop and will move its 200,000 customers to other carriers. Oddly, its website is still soliciting new subscriptions. [NYT]

Low End Theory: Cheapness as the Milk of Creativity

By Brendan I. Koerner I’m by no means an audiophile, but I’ve never quite gotten the appeal of low-end iPod speakers. I mean, it’s definitely a sign of mankind’s genius that $8.99 can now buy you the means to pump audible music—cavemen would’ve no doubt killed for that sort of powersorcery. But the sound quality…

Low End Theory: The Last Throes of Vonage?

By Brendan I. Koerner Ordinarily there’d be no good reason to get worked up about the new Motorola VT2542 router, which Vonage is now selling for $59.99. Voice-over-data prioritization? VPN pass-through support? Puh-leez. Wake me when it can make cinnamon toast. But these are by no means ordinary times at Vonage. America’s most visible VoIPer…

Vonage to Offer Calling Cards With 200 Free Minutes

Vonage will start offering calling cards loaded with around 200 free minutes, according to a daisy chain of well placed, yet anonymous sources. (“So oooo hot,” said one member in the chain.) Apparently Vonage wants to target homesick business travelers who want to continue to use their home phone number while away from their base…

Vonage Router Gets Gussied Up by Frog Design

VoIP provider Vonage made friends with hipster frog design inc., resulting in this pleasing router design that just might someday make it out of the basement and server closet and onto the desktop. It looks awfully purdy, plus it’s designed to be more durable, too. Vonage wouldn’t say when we might be seeing such a…

Dealzmodo Supplemental: Get $40 Back For A Linksys PAP2 Vonage Adapter

Amazon has the Linksys PAP2 Phone Adapter for Vonage at $59.99 plus a $100 rebate, which actually earns you $40 after all’s said and done. The adapter works by plugging in a standard analog phone and an ethernet cable. Not a bad deal when you’re actually making money. Linksys PAP2 Phone Adapter for Vonage Internet…

Vonage V-Phone Hands On

Vonage, the VoIP company with an incredibly annoying theme song (“Woo Hoo”) just released the V Phone, a VoIP phone contained inside a USB thumb drive which we mentioned a few days ago. I’ve been playing around with it for a while and can state conclusively that, yes, it is a phone and, yes, it…

Vonage Announces V-Phone USB

Taking a page from Skype’s book, Vonage announced the V-Phone: a USB stick that holds Vonage software allowing users to make Vonage calls from any broadband PC. This is pretty interesting news for Vonage users, since it lets people take their calls on the road pretty much anywhere. Imagine having your home Vonage phone with…

How To Get Phone Messages on Your iPod

The trick with this how-to is to transmit VOIP voicemail messages to an email account and then sync those MP3s to your iPod. Why you would ever want to do this… maybe because you get SO MANY VOICEMAIL MESSAGES YOU CAN”T STAND IT, but that’s pretty rare. Anyway, MacMerc has full instructions, so do what…