If you’d like to make calls from your iPad, check out the Truphone app, which allows iPad users to make calls over VoiP. Calls are free to other Truphone, Skype or Google Talk users, and are $.05/minute over telephone lines (cheaper if you sign up for the monthly plan).

Why would you want to make calls from your iPad? Well, maybe your iPhone died because you tried to do two things at once with it. Maybe you like feeling like a very tiny man. Whatever your reasoning, just the very fact that you can do this is kinda cool.

Here’s video of a man using his iPad as a giant iPhone off TechCrunch:

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How soon “real soon now” is I’m not sure, but I am excited by the news. Apple’s blocked the ability to make VOIP calls from a 3G handset for a while now, with the not-so-secret intention of shielding AT&T from customers who’d try and drop their minute plan entirely, relying only on Skype for their incoming and outgoing calls. A small compromise was reached in that the current version of Skype for iPhone can call out over WiFi, but that means without a hotspot, you’d be beholden to AT&T’s outrageous rates.

With this new announcement – which Skype assures us will contain “CD quality sound” – iPhone users have a new reason to rejoice.

Source: Mashable

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