T-Mobile’s Bobsled Is A Free, Facebook-Based, VoIP App

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In a slightly puzzling move, T-Mobile has released a Facebook app that enables friend-to-friend voice chat. It’s called Bobsled (or more properly, Bobsled by T-Mobile, as it will remind you at every step in the process), and it addresses the 88% (according to their study) of Facebook users who want voice chat built into the site. Being one of the other 12%, I can’t say with certainty whether this app is what people were thinking of, but at the very least it looks well integrated.

Once you install the app (at the dynamically-named letsbobsled.com), a little phone will appear by online friends’ screen names (those who have the app installed, anyhow), and after that it’s just one click away, with confirmation on the other side of course. It’s powered by Vivox.

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