Articles Index
Paltalk - Voice and Video Chat Tool and Messenger
Paltalk is an instant messenger app that has great features like video conferencing for up to 10 persons and thousands of chat rooms, but you have to bear with its advertisements. You can also make VoIP calls and chat in text mode.
SightSpeed Video Chat App
SightSpeed is a video chat tool for both personal and commercial use. It allows video conferencing sessions for free, along with many other features. Read its review here.
Vyke
Vyke review - VoIP service offering very cheap prices over worldwide destionations. The service can be used in many ways, on the computer or on mobile phones. Read review
Ooma Mobile Review
Ooma Mobile - Ooma Mobile is a service that works only for existing Ooma customers, therefore only for people in the US. It allows mobile phone calls within the US at the rate of 1.9 cents per minute, and international calls at very competitive VoIP rates. Ooma injects its PureVoice HD quality in the product, which makes it more interesting. But it is still quite restrictive. It works only for the iPhone, iPad, iPod and Android phones. Ooma Mobile allows calls through 3G and Wi-Fi.
Empathy IM Review
Empathy IM is an open-source instant messenger app for Linux. It comes as default VoIP IM app with many Linux distributions. It is basic by has what it takes to make voice and video communication great. Also, it is multi-procotol, in that it allows you to manager different accounts like Facebook, Yahoo, Google Talk, and some others, at the same time on the same interface. Empathy IM Review
Pidgin IM Review
Pidgin IM is a great tool for those who want to have all their account on all networks like Yahoo!, MSN, Facebook in one same interface, with a lot of features. Piding is primarily based on Linux but also has a version for Windows.
Jawbone Era Bluetooth Headset Review
Jawbone Era Bluetooth Headset Review -The Jawbone Era Bluetooth Headset is one of the best headsets of its kind. It is a very small piece of hardware, with modern design. It has a high price tag but is full of quality that justifies the price. It is monaural as is the case with Bluetooth headsets, but also comes with a binaural earloop. Apart from the discreet yet sophisticated built body, it is loaded with features and technologies that honor sound processing: noise and wind reduction, HD audio, automatic volume control, built in accelerometer, good battery autonomy etc.
Logitech ClearChat PC Wireless Headset Review
Logitech ClearChat Wireless VoIP Headset offers high performance and great features, enough to hoist it among the very expensive headsets, but it has a reasonable price, affordable for most. This makes it a great value for money product and definitely one of the first headsets to consider for anyone looking for a good wireless headset. It offers good noise cancellation and is one of the rare headsets with laser tuned audio.
Jitsi SIP Softphone Review
Jitsi is a Java-based communication tool that offers a lot of features and allows SIP-based calls. Jitsi supports voice and video calls and gives all the functionalities of an Instant Messaging software. It offers a nice interface and runs on many platforms. It also offers conference calls over SIP and allows you to connect to many other networks including Facebook, Google Talk, Windows Live, Yahoo!, AIM and ICQ. Jitsi is a nice tool for integrating all your communication needs into one application. Jitsi is open source and is therefore free
MicroSIP Softphone Review
MicroSIP is a portable SIP-based softphone. It is free and open source, and besides being portable, which is quite rare among SIP softphones, it is characterized by very little resource consumption. The interface is very simple and dry, maybe a bit too dry for some, especially those users used to using nice things like Skype. MicroSIP is available only for Windows
QuteCom Softphone Review
QuteCom Softphone Review - QuteCom is what was previously known as WengoPhone, a French project for a VoIP client. QuteCom is open source and therefore free. It allows you to make free computer to computer calls through SIP. You can also use it as an IM software and integrate all your contacts into one place. QuteCom also gives you the possibility to make video calls and send SMS
Ekiga Softphone Review
Ekiga is an open-source VoIP softphone app that includes the functionalities of a voice softphone, video conferencing tool and instant messaging tool. It is available for Windows and Linux, is completely free and is simple to use. Though it does not come with a ton of features, it offers user-friendliness and seamless SIP communication.
Bria Review
Bria is one of the most enhanced VoIP softphone apps on the market, and Counterpath’s flagship product. Bria is aimed as a complete replacement for the hardware phone with all its features, and also as complete communication management tool for businesses and individuals alike. Bria is not free, but is fully loaded with features, which also make it a bulky application that is quite heavy on resources.
EyeBeam Review - Full-Fledged VoIP Softphone App
EyeBeam is a full-fledged SIP-based softphone VoIP app that allows you to have a sophisticated voice and video communication experience whether you are an individual user or part of a business. It is more of a multimedia communicator than a simple VoIP app. EyeBeam is not attached to any VoIP service, meaning that you need to have a service to tie to it. This also means that you are free to use any VoIP service that supports SIP. It is a great tool for advanced users and VoIP administrators.
X-Lite Softphone App
X-Lite is one of the most popular softphones on the VoIP market. It is the most basic of the line of VoIP apps that Counterpath offers, and it is the only free product. X-Lite is not attached with any VoIP service
Ooma Review- Free Phone Calls, No Monthly Bills
ooma Review - Ooma is a VOiP service that allows completely free calls to all users, landline and mobile, to the US and Canada, and very cheap international calls. ooma rids you of monthly bills. You just have to buy the device once off and you never pay after that for making calls.
sipgate VoIP Service Review
sipgate VoIP Service Review - sipgate is a VoIP phone service provider that strives to replace landline phone services. sipgate gives you a free phone number through which you can receive calls for free, and a lot of free phone features. Calls between sipgate users are free, and are cheap ($1.9) within the US and Canada. Calls to other destinations worldwide are lower as well compared to landline rates, but not among the lowest on the VoIP market.
Axvoice VoIP Service Provider Review
Axvoice VoIP Service Provider Review - Axvoice provides VoIP service to residents in the US and Canada and offers more or less the same stuff in the packages as other VoIP service providers. When asked about what would entice a user to choose the service, a representative said that what gives them the edge over the competition is the lower price, starting at $5 a month for 1.5 cents per call, and flexibility of service. The service has a number of features, free hardware and 911 service.
ippi SIP Service Review
ippi SIP Service Review - ippi is a SIP service provider that allows users to make and receive calls through their home phones, SIP-supporting mobile phones and computers. It offers local and international unlimited calling plans, but these plans suffer from not including calls to mobile phones, which are billed separately. ippi poses as a replacement for a home phone service, and as a business SIP provider since it works with IP PBXs and offers business plans.
A Review of fg microtec’s SIP Software for BlackBerry and Nokia Phones
fg microtec’s BlackBerry SIP Software - The VoIP client applications are designed for BlackBerry and Nokia business users who want to save money on VoIP calls and take maximum advantage of the fixed-mobile convergence. The application requires SIP configuration with an IP PBX or a Wi-Fi connection.
Business VoIP Solutions for Small Businesses and Large Enterprises
Fonality Business VoIP Solution Review - Fonality offers cloud communications business VoIP solutions that are full-featured for small and large businesses with different plans. Delivered as a monthly service over the Internet, it is a complete business phone system, and includes advanced features such as auto attendant functionality, telecommuter support, voicemail to email, and anywhere management, which allows the solution to be managed from a web-enabled browser anywhere in the world.
MO-Call Mobile VoIP Service Review
MO-Call Mobile VoIP Service Review - MO-Call is a VoIP service that allows you to use your mobile phone to make cheap or free international calls using your GSM network. You can use MO-Call VoIP service on over 2000 mobile models, including the popular iPhone 4, iPhones upgraded to the iOS 4, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Symbian platforms.
Gmail Calling Review – Google International Calling
Gmail Calling Review – Google now offers the possibility of making and receiving international calls for cheap and free. Standing as a competitor for Skype by offering similar services, Google Calling allows people to make free PC-to-PC calls and cheap calls (as low as 2 cents per minute for some destinations) to and from mobile and landline phones. 2 cents per minute is not the cheapest on the market, but is among the cheapest, and it definitely cheaper than Skype.
Nymgo – Dirt Cheap International Calls
Nymgo Review - Nymgo is a good VoIP service whose main strength is its low price. Nymgo charges some of the cheapest rates on the market, much cheaper than Skype. Some destinations are charged at less than half a cent per minute. Nymgo offers good quality calls with a simple application and web interface, and your remaining credit is always shown. You require a computer and a handset to make calls, but can also install the application and make calls over SIP-supporting mobile phones.
Phonebooth Free - Free Local Phone Number That Can Ring Multiple Phones
Phonebooth Free Review - Phonebooth Free service offers a free phone number for your area that you channel incoming calls to different phones, fixed and mobile. It poses as a serious alternative to Google Voice, and also offers a paid upgrade for outgoing calls. The Phonebooth Free service is offered by Bandwidth.com, which is a major player on the VoIP market. The features offered for free is comparable to Google Voice and its paid rates are around the market’s average.