In case you missed the update in installer app… Today we released the 1.4.2 which adds next to address book access a very cool new feature our customers over at Nikotel (www.nikotel.com) use since quite a while on other platforms – nikotalk. Nikotalk is a feature which lets you connect two regular phones to place very inexpensive phone calls. This is important for people who do lots of international calling. Calling any landline phone in Germany (just a random example) from your iPhone in the USA cost only a little over 2 cents per minute while you would pay 9 cents with your AT&T plan (plus $3.95 a month fees).  This paid service is just an addition to your FREE Nikotalkie which is FREE and will be always FREE.. Oh.. to make the testing of these cheap calls to regular phones easy we applied 50 cents credit to everybody who signed up with Nikotalkie and will apply it to every new signup.

Here is how it works:

In the configuration dialog you add your iPhone phone number. Please add the COMPLETE number including country code. For the USA it would look like 15555555555 and for German iPhone users 49555555555. Then you can go to the little phone symbol in the Nikotalkie navigation. To call a number in any country you wish you simply enter the complete number including country code. Please do not enter “+” signs or leading zeros. Then you click TALK. What happens next is that your iPhone will ring. We call your iPhone.. You pick up and hear a voice telling you to please wait while you will be connected. Then we call the other party and voila - you are connected, enjoying lowest rates… Happy testing! In the next days we will add some nice documentation about the new feature and soon we will add of course our nice address book feature you can now enjoy with Nikotalkie.