AT&T Launches VoIP App To Make International Calls — Download Now!

AT&T has launched its own app for smartphones to make international calls over the internet. This has been an answer to the highly acclaimed Skype which most people are still using on their smartphones to make calls over the internet.

The new app called piggybacks has been branded by the carrier itself. It allows the users in U.S to make international calls over their 3G networks which is much cheaper as compare to calling from their own AT&T network. Users can also make calls where a Wi-Fi connection is available. As long as you are hooked to an internet connection you are ready to go.

With the new app you can make calls to fixed line numbers in China, France, Germany and the UK at 4 cents/minute. To Mexico and India you can make calls to fixed line numbers at 8 cents and 9 cents respectively. Calling cellphones is still a little bit expensive. It can cost you around 21 to 27 cents per minute to call European number and the same rate is applicable to wireless numbers in China and India.

In addition to the availability on iPhones the app is also available on selected Android and Blackberry cellphones. You can also request for separate billing to your AT&T account. And the good part is there is no contract or minimum calling required!

Download AT&T Call International (iTunes link)

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iPhone 4S Users Complain Of Audio Bugs While Making Calls

It seems that every iPhone launch has to be plagued by problems. The iPhone 4 had the antennagate, the iPhone 4S had battery issues as well as Siri outages. Now it seems a number of iPhone 4S users are facing an audio issue where they can not hear the person on the other end of the phone.

As with every Apple issue, a discussion thread on Apple's website has been opened with 36 pages of comments from users. One user on the forum, who initiated the thread says:

Picked up a Verizon iPhone 4S - 32GB and on about 1 in 10 calls I get no outbound audio when dialing.  Call shows the timer counting as if the call is progressing but absolutely no ring back and cannot hear the party on the other end when they answer. 

Another user on AT&T chimes in:

I am having the same issue with an AT&T 32G 4s, hitting the speaker button only works sometimes. It also has happened to me when using the Apple provided headphones/microphone.

The problem is intermittent as the comments say. Certain users in UK and Australia are also affected by the issue.

Whether the problem is a hardware issue, or a software bug is yet to be known. The newly released iOS 5.0.1 beta doesn't seem to solve the problem. Some users suggest that the problem is related to Bluetooth headsets, while others could reproduce the bug without even switching on Bluetooth.

As Mashable points out, a Facebook group named "iPhone 4S Outgoing Call No Audio" has also been created, suggesting the scale of the bug. Interestingly, another problem related to audio echo plagues a subset of iPhone 4S users.

Apple has so far remained silent on the issue. If the problem is indeed a software issue, we expect Apple to resolve it when it releases iOS 5.0.1 to public.

Have you experienced any such issue on your iPhone 4S?

[via Mashable]

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