T-Mobile Bobsled VoIP hits iPhone

T-Mobile has extended its Bobsled VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service, broadening use from Facebook to cover access from the browser, from new Android apps, and with apps for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Just in case to the new apps, there are as well free mobile and landline calls in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico, although the Android/iOS software currently only supports calls direct to Facebook contacts.

If you want free general calls, you’ll need to log in through the browser interface instead. For all that, using the mobile apps you can make Bobsled to Bobsled calls, cross-platform between Android and iOS, and leave voicemails that get flagged up on your Facebook contacts’ walls. It’s as well possible to record a voice message and leave that pinned to someone’s wall, to put it more exactly than to tell the truth talk to them.

In effect it’s a clever way for T-Mobile to potentially get onto hundreds of thousands of iPhone homescreens, in spite of being the only major US carrier not offering the new iPhone 4S.