At BlackBerry World, RIM announced plans to make its Mobile Voice System (MVS) 5 with voice over WiFi calling available for more corporate phone systems. Recently, RIM announced that BlackBerry MVS 5 is now available in North America and the UK for Avaya phone systems.
The list of phone systems that work with BlackBerry MVS now includes:
Rebtel, the #2 mVoIP provider just behind Skype, has launched an app for BlackBerry which makes international calling between users of BlackBerry and Android devices absolutely free. Rebtel for BlackBerry runs in the background and intercepts users from making expensive long distance calls by automatically converting the number to a cheap local number. Features of the app include: Continue reading ‘Rebtel Launches VoIP App With Free/Cheap International Calls’
Shape Services let us know that their IM+ Talk app is out of beta and available for purchase or for you to test on a free, 7 day trial. Probably the best feature of this app is the ability to make free Skype VoIP calls over WiFi, as well as make VoIP calls over 3G/EDGE. With the holiday season approaching, even the 7 day trial of this app is well worth it. For those going overseas to visit family, this app could save you a lot of holiday cash.
Skype is requesting that Nimbuzz remove support for its 3rd party VoIP service. Effective October 31st, Nimbuzz will be killing support for the service. It’s a shame that the services are being canceled, as Nimbuzz has managed to accumulate 150 million downloads and serve 3.65 billion VoIP minutes last year. The cancellation raises some interesting questions about why the VoIP market on BlackBerry is so closed and why Skype has such a beef with people using their services. Isn’t 3.65 billion VoIP minutes a positive outcome?
The BlackBerry app economy is picking up steam and with the announcement of carrier and credit card billing, we can expect an even bigger uptake in the market. Now is a better time than ever to get started building BlackBerry apps and a company called fg microtech have a VoIP SDK to help you make something new and creative.
There isn’t much in the way of VoIP on BlackBerry and it’s very hot right now in the smartphone space. With the FGVoIP Engine, developers can integrate a third party VoIP technology with high-quality full duplex media processing capabilities into applications they build for the BlackBerry platform
The fgVoIP Engine SDK will be available in early May. For licensing, pricing and further information, head over to their site.
