Soft VoIP

10 Factors That Affect VoIP Call Quality

Issues of VoIP call quality keep coming up, but as far as I’m concerned, general quality has improved in the past two years. My experience is with soft VoIP, so I’m focusing on that. Soft VoIP IM clients have improved - some more than others. But it’s not always the software that’s at fault for [...]


Gizmo: Business Class All Calls Free Plan

Om writes today that Gizmo are going after the SME market with the launch of their new ‘All Calls Free’ calling plan. Of course all PC - PC calls are free as usual, but Gizmo have added a feature that will undoubtedly prove popular with small businesses and bedouins.
When you setup Gizmo you [...]

Fring: Free Mobile Calls

Fring is a free application that runs on the Symbian S60 platform. It is a 3G mobile app that allows you to make free calls from your mobile and send text messages to other Fring users. While this is attractive, what draws my eye to Fring is that it also allows a user [...]

Are Soft VoIP Clients Obsolete?

While IM (Instant Messaging) clients with VoIP capabilities are immensely popular (used by several hundred million people collectively), they may be left behind by a new generation of soft VoIP plugins that work within other applications such as web browsers. You see a phone number on a web page, click on it, and a call [...]

Video Clip: iPhox VoIP TV Commercial

If you’ve seen the aurally annoying animated VoIP commercial that Vonage runs, you just might like this alternative (above) for a softphone called iPhox. I guess Sex still sells in the UK (the background does look like the UK). What’s even crazier is that apparently you can call the young woman in the video for [...]