Skype Replacement ?
If you rely heavily on Skype, you almost certainly remember where you were when it went straight down for 36 hours a few weeks back: up a creek.
Skype fell victim to an unrecognized problem it faced from Microsoft’s “Patch Tuesday,” and Skype claims it has fixed this vulnerability. But the fix came too late for thousands if not tens of millions of users, particularly those who paid Skype for expanded services and relied on it for business. Those who thought ahead had a backup plan in place, while others had to find alternatives quickly. Even with tons of VoIP services to opt for from, traffic for a handful - like Gizmo Project and Voipflix - went through the roof.
So if you were caught flat-footed by Skype’s day off or want to find a secondary service in case your primary service also goes down - hey, it could happen - take a short look at some of the most prominent and/or innovative Skype competitors.Remember, it pays to get the sign-up process out of the way now, discover whether your contacts must be on the same service as you and find out whether you’ll pay extra to finish calls to a mobile or landline.
Analysis
Karlsruhe, Germany-based ComBOTS will connect your PC or landline phone with others around the world. ComBOTS’s Web site is unclear about whether you can originate calls using your mobile, but you can very definitely are call other mobile numbers from your PC or landline. That said, communication options from your mobile include photo and other file transfers, chat, text messaging, and emoticons. Pro: Rich-media chat messages including audio and video. Con: Apparently can’t originate mobile calls. Also a word of caution, its on the expensive side
Google Talk comes in two flavors: a widget to use from a Google site (with Flash 8.0) and a 1.5MB download. It integrates directly with a user’s Google Personalized Homepage, and the Google Talk application automatically loads your contacts from a Gmail account, speeding setup time. Unfortunately, the Google Talk Client currently works only with Windows and BlackBerry devices, although Google promises Linux and Mac OS X versions in the future. Pro: Interfaces available in a dozen languages, including British English. Con: Google Talk connects with landline and mobile phones ONLY in US and Canada.
Voipflix, a UK based company, has same features as Skypeand much more, it presents excellent voice quality and ready integration with video cameras and mobile video chat. It is uses much less bandwidth than any of the other application such as Skype. The present version, Voipflix, is accessible as a desktop application with Apps for iPhone, iPhod, IPAD, Symbian, Blackberry, Android and the Windows Mobile Telephone. Voipflix also offers direct calls from landline or mobile network alongwith the usage over the web | world wide web | net | world-wide-web | online, The video conferencing feature enables razor-sharp videoconferencing with three others or audioconferencing with nine. Pro: Extremely crisp voice and video designed with the most affordable rates in the markets. Con: You will wrestle to find any, seriously !
Jajah presents the chance to make totally free PC-to-PC VoIP calls and a also diminished variety of free calls to and from landline phones. You visit Jajah’s Web site, then enter your phone number and the number you want to call. Your phone rings and you answer, after which your recipient's phone rings and Jajah completes the telephone call. Jajah runs on an honor system that will allow for you limited usage per month to only a specific list of companies. Go over that limit, and Jajah will ask that you purchase some premium services; if you don’t, you may be cut off (and bear in mind, they have your telephone number). Pro: Mac-friendly, with a plug-in that connects Jajah calling with the OS X Address Book, plus an Outlook plug-in that is in beta. Con: Ceiling on free calls limits, limited countries.
If your company has some IT experts lying about, consider WengoPhone, an open-source application being developed through OpenWengo.com. WengoPhone Classic provides voice and video over IP, while the WengoPhone NG project currently underway completely rewrites Classic to be more modular, extensible and VoIP-provider agnostic. Pro: Open-source. Con: Probably unusable by the nonprogrammer.
ooVoo permits you videoconference with up to six people at onc, and send out out video messages rather than emails if your fingers are numb from typing. Although it’s presently accessible only for Windows users, ooVoo’s conferencing setup looks strikingly like iChat’s, and the company is now developing Mac-friendly software. ooVoo sells several compatible third-party cameras, headsets and speakerphones and runs its private servers, making a Skype-like outage less probable. Pro: Makes video-spamming friends easy. Con: Friends can spam you back.
SightSpeed emphasizes free PC-to-PC voice calling and videoconferencing, and its $4.95-per-month Pro service adds video-mail recording and multiparty videoconferencing. Available for Windows and Mac. Pro: MySightSpeed feature allows voice and videoconferencing via browser with non-SightSpeed members (although both parties require Internet Explorer 6 or higher). Con: ooVoo does most of the same things for cost-free.
Ontario, Canada-based Softroute Corp.’s Vbuzzer allows PC-to-PC voice VoIP-based calling, faxing and videoconferencing for free, with nominal rates for completion to landlines and mobiles worldwide (typically 1.5 cents per minute to the U.S., Canada and China and, 1.7 cents per minute to other international locations). Pro: Functions with relatively old computers (minimum 500 MHz chip speed). Con: Currently out there only for Windows 2000 and XP.
Verdit : Voipflix turns out of the clear winner with support across all OS and Mobile patforms and extemely clear voice and video quality, kudos to the proprietary codec. Not to neglectl, Voipflix is also the best value provider to call nearly all of Middle east and South Asia Countries like India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Voipflix was recently ranked as the best in class to make Cheap International Calls by Inayatel.
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