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New VoIP software for Pocket PC released: nikotalk for Windows Mobile 5.0 April 26, 2006 [Pocket PC] | By Edward J. R. If you want to call cheaper other fixed or mobile phones abroad, this VoIP (Voice over IP) solution may be something for you. It looks like there are no free Internet-to-Internet calls in this solution though... Nikolai Manek from Nikotel writes: we are a 6 years in the market VoIP company and we have launched a new product (release candidate) for Windows Mobile 5 (older versions will be supported in a while). It is enabling to place calls at almost 80% under regular rates for international calls (US is 2.2 cents). All you need is a internet connection on your phone. Here is how it works: You are starting nikotalk (the app) and you are saving your own cell phone number into your preferences. Then you can type another number or pick one out of your contacts (our app is reading pocket outlook contacts) and with one click your phone is connecting to the internet and "telling" our server to call the cell phone number first and then ater you are picking up (yes, it is a regular incoming call) our server will call the other number and connect the two. This way you are having a VoIP call without any VoIP equipment. We are also having versions of this software for Windows XP and Apple mac. [...] 30 minutes we are giving every customer for testing. I am coming from Germany and I was calling Germany every day and spend almost $400 every month on international calls. This bill is cut to $25 now and the call setup is faster, the quality better and there are never busy international circuits since we are transporting all calls from our US gateways over VPN connections to the called country. [...] Internet to Internet calls are not possible yet since this is NOT a softphone. It will call your phone over a real PSTN line and connect also the other party over a PSTN line. This way you are having the best possible quality of the call. Never less the next updates will have in the first step the possibility to connect a SIP URI as a called party so that you are only paying approx. 1 cent a minute for the call leg to your cell phone. In the next step we might build in a softphone as well. Our past experience has shown that people are not that thrilled by using softphones over EVDO or GPRS since the delays are sometimes horrible. It makes of course lots of sense if your phone can do WiFi. To learn more click here.  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)
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