Marcelo Rodriguez over at RingFree took issue with a number of other product announcements that use a phrase similar to "True VoIP for the iPhone."

Like Marcelo, I think people are hung up on having the leg from your telephone go over an IP network. There are times when there is value in doing that, for instance, you have a WiFi-enabled mobile and you're in a foreign country and don't want to pay the insane roaming charges you're likely to pay by using GSM. However, I don't think this kind of setup is a requirement for "true VoIP" be it on the iPhone or any other handset.

In the case of RF dialer and several other examples I can think of, VoIP happens inside the network so to speak. It doesn't make it any less "VoIP" in my mind as it enables additional functionality and/or lower cost calls through voice over IP technologies.

For you VoIP "purists" out there, go ahead and have your "pure VoIP" calls with other like-minded geeks. Meanwhile, the rest of us will communicate with our "fake" VoIP solutions with the rest of the world.