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Skype for Android Update - Supports Samsung Galaxy S & SD Card

December 16, 2010

Skype is on an update roll. Last week they released an update for Nokia/Symbian phones. Now they just released an update for Android devices that allows you to move the Skype app to external storage to free up precious local storage on the phone. This release also adds compatibility with the Samsung Galaxy S. Only catch is that you'll need Android 2.2.

Skype may be on an update roll, but there is NO truth to the rumor that they are releasing a video-enabled Skype app for iPhone or Android for some video chat action.

Posted in Android, Apple, Google, Mobile Phones, Skype, TMCnet, VoIP, Wireless

Bria for Android v1.0 Launches

November 9, 2010

Bria for Android just launched. It's priced at $7.99 ($8.99 more for G.729 codec support) and is available here. Check out the features:

Bria Android Edition has all the standard telephone features, including:

Support for an account on any SIP-compliant server
Multi-tasking support for background operation, such as fielding incoming calls while using other applications
Call display and voicemail indicator
Voicemail support
Speakerphone, Mute and Hold
A detailed call history pane that displays dialed, answered and missed calls, along with ability to delete entries
Contact List – leveraging the phone’s native address book
The ability to work with the native dialer (a.k.a. Call Intercept)
Ringtones and contact avatars
Dial plan support (softphone-side)
Multiple call support
- Swap between two active calls
- Merge calls (three-way conferencing support)
- Call transfer (attended and unattended)
Audio codecs include G.711a/u, iLBC and GSM
- Option to purchase with or without G.729 codec
Automatic codec selection to ensure optimal call quality
Noise reduction
DTMF support: the ability to enter number into an auto attendant
- via RFC 2833 or SIP INFO

Advanced Features

NAT traversal
- Application managed, server managed or user specified
- Global IP support
- STUN and ICE
Media efficiency and quality
- VAD (Voice Activation Detection)
- QoS (Quality of Service)
- ToS Marking
Security and encryption
- TLS
- SRTP
Logging support for trouble shooting
DNS SRV record lookups

Accessories

Posted in Android, Google, Mobile Phones, SIP, TMCnet, VoIP, Wireless

Asterisk 1.8 - Major Release Sports 200 New Features

October 21, 2010

Digium today released Asterisk 1.8, a major new release of the popular open source telephony platform. According to Digium, it includes more than 200 notable new features.

I spoke with Digium's Product Manager, Steve Sokol, to learn more about this important release.

Posted in Asterisk, Google, SIP, Skype, TMCnet, VoIP

Truphone to Take on Skype & Offer Windows VoIP App

October 15, 2010

Truphone, headquartered in London, U.K. will soon be releasing a VoIP client for Windows PCs, as well as the Mac OS. Truphone is known for their mobile VoIP apps supported on several mobile platforms including Apple, Android, Blackberry, and Symbian, but this will be their first foray into the desktop PC environment. Unlike Skype, Truphone leverages the standard SIP protocol, so essentially Truphone will be releasing a SIP softphone client customized to work with their service offering.

Posted in Android, Apple, Google, Mobile Phones, SIP, Skype, TMCnet, VoIP, Wireless

CounterPath Demos iPhone to Nexus One Call Switching from VoIP to Cellular & Back

October 6, 2010

I met with Todd Carothers, VP of Product Management at TMC's ITEXPO in Los Angeles to hear about Counterpath's latest patents and new product offerings. Todd gave me one of the coolest demos of mobile VoIP I've ever seen! I captured the demo in one of two videos that I've included in this blog post. Definitely a must watch!

Posted in Apple, Google, ITEXPO, Mobile Phones, SIP, TMCnet, VoIP, Wireless

Google Testing VoIP Calling in Gmail

August 25, 2010

Gmail is already many user's centralized communications portal - an always-open browser window. It offers access to our email, chat, contacts, calendar, documents, and soon it might add browser-based VoIP.

According to CNET, Google has started testing Gmail-integrated VoIP, which would enable users to make phone calls directly from your browser.

Google already offers several voice offerings, including Google Voice, Google Talk, and the recently acquired SIP-based Gizmo5 softphone client. To be honest, Google Talk and Gizmo5 are sort of redundant. Google should consolidate the two clients. It'll be interesting to see if users embrace browser-based telephony or if they'll stick with tried-and-true softphone clients like Skype.

Posted in Google, Internet, VoIP

Gmail Voice and Video Chat Now on Linux

August 20, 2010

Google has finally announced the long-awaited voice and video chat for Linux. Head on over to gmail.com/videochat to download the plug-in and start chatting with your buds. No install via RPM is available yet. Though RPM installs are for wusses. Real Linux gurus compile from source, baby!

Posted in Google, TMCnet, Unified Communications, Video Conferencing, VoIP

AudioCodes Adds Mobile VoIP Solutions for Blackberry and Android

August 5, 2010

Audiocodes today launched a mobile VoIP app for Blackberry and Android. They already supported the Apple iPhone.

Here's the full release:

AudioCodes VMAS Solution now covers all leading Smartphone OS, offering a comprehensive solution set for mobile, PC or Web

Lod, Israel - August 5, 2010 - AudioCodes (NasdaqGS: AUDC), a leading provider of Voice over IP (VoIP) technologies and Voice Network products, today announced an expansion of its VMAS family of Mobile VoIP Solutions with the addition of its new Blackberry and Android clients. AudioCodes Mobile VoIP Solutions enable Service Providers to offer new value added services thereby increasing revenues while allowing end users to make low cost calls at significantly improved voice quality. With today's announcement, VMAS now offers carriers a complete solution covering all leading mobile operating systems such as Symbian, Windows Mobile, Apple iOS, Blackberry OS and Android, as well as its existing solutions for the PC and Web.

The growing availability of high-speed mobile broadband, continual adoption of smartphones and emergence of flat rate mobile data pricing have bolstered the growth of mobile VoIP and made it an integral part of the future. Frost & Sullivan has even recently claimed that "Mobile VoIP has become a credible threat to the traditional voice revenues." (Impact Of Mobile VoIP On Next Generation Cellular Networks, July 2010) Going forward, Service Providers will need to differentiate themselves from mobile VoIP start-ups with innovative services and capabilities.

Posted in Android, Apple, Google, Mobile Phones, SIP, VoIP, Wireless

Google Voice Adds Faster dialing on Android and Blackberry devices

July 22, 2010

Google has some new updates to their Google Voice mobile apps for your Android and Blackberry phone fans (sorry iPhone fans - no update today for you!).

According to Google:
At Google we are obsessed with speed. Our mantra is faster = better. This is true for our Google Voice mobile apps as well. When you want to make a call, your phone should connect you as quickly as possible, whether you're calling via Google Voice or not.

Today we are launching an enhancement to the Google Voice mobile app on Android and Blackberry phones, which makes placing calls much faster. We call this feature "direct access numbers."
Read how they made it faster here

Posted in Android, Google, Mobile Phones, Unified Communications, VoIP, Wireless

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