February 27, 2007
Taking New Gizmo 3.0 out for a spin
Gizmo Project announced today an new update to their popular softphone. Read reviews by Om Malik, Luca, and Tom Keating. The biggest addition is the ability to now call Windows Live and Yahoo Messenger contacts in addition to Google Talk, Jabber and other Gizmo users.
Today, if you’re already a Gizmo Project user you get the download and install the new version from the web site, click here. Sometime tomorrow or Thursday, the Gizmo folks will add an automatic install feature that prompts you to install the new version the next time Gizmo starts up. I like that.
As for using it, I’ve made a few test calls to Windows Live Messenger. Just enter the MSN ID in the call field, pretty easy. However the only way I can see to save a MSN or Yahoo contact to the contact list, is to select GoogleTalk in the Contact Type box. I don’t know if this is the intended use but….users don’t always do what they’re supposed to do…
On the receiving end, the incoming call didn’t look like me. It looked like GTalkToVoip was calling (who in the world is that?). Answering the call and hanging up seem fine, but after that, the whole process seemed to crash Windows Live (receiving end). I don’t use Windows Live for voice at all so I’m not an expert. In my opinion, you’re better off just inviting your friends to join Gizmo.
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3 Comments on Taking New Gizmo 3.0 out for a spin »
February 28, 2007
Markus Goebel's Tech News Comments @ 6:33 pm (Trackback)
Gizmo 3.0: right step - but could do even better…
Gizmo Project 3.0 is quite OK, but I directly found missing integration features: The other IMs shouldn’t only receive Gizmo calls but also be able to make calls to Gizmo. That’s not a big technical problem. Also it’s interesting that Gizmo uses Gt…
March 2, 2007
John Bäckstrand @ 7:37 am:
gtalktovoip would be http://www.gtalk2voip.com/, the service that has been doing the jabber, sip, msn and gtalk stuff for some time. I guess this shows that gizmo is simply using them, and I am a bit surprised.
James Wanless @ 8:39 pm:
While Gizmo lets users call from the Gizmo client on their PC, Talkster has extended this to the mobile phone in support of its belief that users shouldn’t have to sit in front of a computer to make VoIM calls. So for the last 6-months, Talkster users with an ordinary mobile phone (no PC or broadband required), have been able to call their Google Talk, Gizmo and MSN buddies from anywhere.
http://talkster.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/gizmo-aggregates-voice-over-im-just-like-talkster/