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OnSIP On The iPad

Clearly, some people have just too much time on their hands. The release of the iPad has garnered a lot of attention this week. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere it doesn’t suit my needs especially well, but I accept that its pretty cool and bound to be useful to many people.

I am amused at how some people try using things like the iPad in roles that are on the surface at crossed purposes with its design. For example, people are starting to try and use it as a phone. As far as I know Truphone was the first, as highlighted on CrunchGear. This morning I see that Rob Wolpov from Junction Networks is trying SIP clients on his shiny new iPad.

Rob’s a nice guy, and we love their OnSIP service….but I’m amazed that anyone would bother with this. Surely an iPad owner already has an iPhone or an iPod Touch? Both of those devices seem much better suited at being a phone.There’s a little issue of scale and form factor to be considered.

I suppose people will want to try this simply because they can. That it works at all will be amusing. I wonder how many people will routinely make use of the iPad for calling? It’s lack of support for multi-tasking would seem to make that a non-starter for many people. When you’re on a call that’s all you can do. In this regard the iPad doesn’t even measure up to it’s little brother…the iPhone.

On the other hand, with the iPad effectively sucking all the oxygen from the room at the moment perhaps its only natural that everyone wants a little piece of the iPad action.

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  1. In about 15 minutes everyone expects Apple to announce that the iPhone/Touch/Pad will be supporting multitasking in the near future…

    Z

  2. I have three responses. Feel free to choose your favorite.

    1. Hey, give the people what they want.

    2. We say we support SIP on any SIP capable platform and iSIP is available on the iPAD, so we figured we should try it out. At the same time, we were able to update our thoughts on iSIP, the SIP client featured in the video. Previously, iSIP had some issues but we now know they have been worked out.

    Shortly, we will be reviewing my.onsip, the browser interface for users, on the iPad. my.onsip on the iPad does make a lot of sense and we will be sure things are working as expected on the iPAD.

    3. My phone is bigger than your phone.

    1. You are absolutely right…in all three cases. I’m merely amused by the way that, when someone has a shiny new hammer, everything looks like a nail.

      But I am very interested to know how the iPhone OS 4.0 changes your experience of using the iPad for calling.

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