Gizmo Project

[necrossis]

Are there any threads discussing this new competition to Skype?

I read an article about this new program, which said something about it being SIP compatible?
It said something like, when you sign up, they give you a ID for PC to PC calls and a SIP number? Does this mean that anybody who has voip, regardless of the provider, will be able to dial a gizmo user from their phone or viceversa?

I just wonder what Phoneboy, being that he dislikes Skype so much because of it being a closed program (I read his blogs once in a while), will have to say about this program.

[DracoFelis]

Originally Posted by necrossis

Are there any threads discussing this new competition to Skype?

I don't seem much talk about it on this board. But there is a lot of talk about this software (including it's limits) on the "BroadBandReports.com" VoIP forum.

[PhoneBoy]

I've blogged a bit about Gizmo Project (see http://blog.phoneboy.com/index.php?itemid=414 and http://blog.phoneboy.com/index.php?itemid=413), but mostly just to respond to what others have said about it in comparison to other things.

Being as I spend most of my time in Linux, I haven't had a chance to actually try Gizmo Project. I'll have to load it up on one of my Windows boxes and see how good it is.

[RFK]

Gizmo is just another SIP client (not new technology or new idea) and this SIP client currently works only in Sipphone.com network (you can see even your 1-747-xxxyyyy sipphone number using network sniffer). If so, pulver.Communicator looks better - at least, you can use it with any SIP provider, and to connect to ICQ/Yahoo/AIM/MSN/SkyPe networks. So, when Gizmo Project (sipphone.com) says that "SkyPe ia bad, Gizmo is good", it's , IMHO, deception. Again - Gizmo project is another SIP client that works only in Sipphone network.