I have an iPhone 4s running iOS 8, I an recently using it in the Middle East, but I would like to make and receive calls to people living in Canada and USA. I have a gmail that has an American mobile number connected to its Google voice. Is their an app that would enable me to make and receive phone calls by using this American phone number to my iPhone. But I don't have the sim for this American phone number, and my iPhone has a sim with a local number from the Middle East installed to it.
IOS – hoow can I make and receive calls With USA and Canada by using a PBX account, Acrobits softphone, and Google chat
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The way I solved this was by waiting to be invited to the TextFree beta which has voice. It will allow you to accept voice calls, which is what is required by Google Voice to verify a phone number.
Ok, figured it out myself. My first problem was that for some reason my phone hadn't activated properly with iMessage / FaceTime (my phone number was unchecked in the You can be reached by FaceTime At section in FaceTime settings). That required switching off FaceTime and iMessage and switching them back on again after a short wait so that they could activate properly, which they did.
Once that was done, my FaceTime settings (on my iPhone) had a new option: iPhone Mobile Calls:
My wife's phone also has that setting. Choosing which phone is used is just a question of only having this setting enabled on one phone at a time. I assume (all though I haven't tried it) that if both phones are enabled in this way, FaceTime on iPad or Mac gives you the choice of which phone/number to use. It wasn't giving me a choice earlier because there was only one phone enabled.
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I've had good luck with Acrobits Softphone... it's a SIP soft phone for iOS. Once you have an appropriate VoIP/PBX account that supports SIP clients, you can use google chat to get your calls into the PBX.
It definitely has some noticeable lag, but it is certainly better than nothing.
You can get a free VoIP/PBX account at pbxes.com (I have no affiliation).