To celebrate Chinese New Year Localphone.com is giving free calls to China for four days starting on 22nd January 2012. The free calls apply to standard landline and mobile calls and is available to current Localphone customers as well as new customers.

The calls are free from 16:00 GMT on Saturday 21st January to 16:00 GMT on Wednesday 25th January 2012, which is midnight 22nd - midnight 25th in China.

Use your Skype credit to pay for WiFi access. This is a great app from Skype that allows you to connect to certain paid WiFi networks in public places such as hotels, airports and restaurants, etc, but at a Skype rate. It’s usable worldwide with over 1 million WiFi hotspots accessible.

Skype’s rates start at 4 pence per minute, which is much less that your roaming costs would be if abroad, and less than a lot of paid WiFi connects in hotels and airports. Also great for those with an iPod Touch that doesn’t have other network options.

Localphone have launched a new voucher code which is valid until the end of September 2011. The offer gives £1 free credit if you top up your account with £1 (works the same with euros and dollars too).

£1 worth of free calls may not sound like too much free credit, but if you remember that with Localphone you can make international calls from your mobile phone for roughly £0.01 per minute then you realise it’s worthwhile.

Voucher code is LP1NEW

Localphone now have an iPhone app. Localphone is a great service for making cheap international phone calls to both landlines and mobiles.

With the new app you can access your contacts and call rates on the move and make calls more easily directly from your iPhone as well as sending cheap SMS.

Localphone give you a local number for each or your contacts, so you can make a locally charged phone call directly from your mobile or landline phone and reach your friends and family overseas for a fraction of the usual cost.

Read our full review of Localphone.

Localphone are giving free calls to the US until the end of Tuesday, 31st May.

If you already have an account with Localphone your US calls will automatically be free, and if you don’t have an account with Localphone I recommend you open one. Not only will you be able to take advantage of these free calls, but of incredibly cheap international phone calls in the future.

Read more at Localphone’s website.

Did you know that calling 0800 numbers in the UK from your mobile actually costs a lot of money? These numbers are free to call from landlines, but not from mobile phones.

There is now a mobile app that lets you call 0800, 0808 and 0500 numbers using your bundled contract minutes. Usually these number cost around 40 pence per minute. The app is called the 0800 Wizard, and it works on the iPhone, Android and BlackBerry.