DS gets VOIP

It’s quite strange how the DS lacks plenty in the arena of hardware is comparison to the Sony PSP, but homebrew programmers have managed to put it’s limited resources to good use. So far homebrewers have already turned the DS into a MIDI controller and even a web browser and now VoIP is available. Thanks to a simple piece of software from clever hacker samuelv you can now use your DS as a phone, as long as you have a SIP account that is.

There is already a respectable amount of users on this platform at the moment, so you can expect future revisions to further tweak things for the better. Just in case you get bored of chatting with your friends, there is always this thing called “games” which can be found in abundance for the little handheld console that could.

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