Truphone who provide a SIP standard voice over IP calling system for mobile handsets of the Symbian S60 platform as well as some iPods and the iPhone have announced that they will now support Paypal payments for customers using iPods and iPhones.

While a number of debit and credit cards were already accepted, customers will now be able to use Paypal through their device to add land-line calling credit without the need to resort to using a web-browser equipped personal computer.

S60tips.com has an updated article listing VoIP applications suitable for use with the S60 smartphone platform.

Listed and reviewed in the article are Nokia’s own Gizmo, Truphone, EQO, Skype, fring and Yeigo
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The article updates an earlier review of S60 Voice over IP applications.

Picked up on Surya Andreas’ blog, we have an article detailing his trials and tribulations with testing out potential Voice over IP client candidates for his Symbian/UIQ based mobile phone.

Fring, Nimbuzz, Truphone and Gizmo are mentioned along with Skype and I-Skoot. He seems to hold Fring in the best regard at the moment for it’s general all-round abilities.

Om Malik of GIGAOM has written an article about how he replaced his regular land-line based telephony with a voice over IP service from UK based Truphone.

Om uses Truphone with his WiFi equipped Nokia E61.

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