[TriLUG] Has anyone looked at gizmo?

[Cristobal Palmer]

You really want a softphone? You know you'd rather play with asterisk
and an IP phone or an FXS card. You could get yourself on TARP.
Granted, (new) hardware is expensive, but you don't need a hard phone
to play with asterisk, when it comes down to it, so you wouldn't
really have to pay any money if you didn't want to. Check out Ekiga or
kiax. You'll have way more fun with asterisk+whatever than with just
skype or gizmo.

Gizmo:

Pro:
      * low barrier to entry
      * If it talks SIP, it talks to Gizmo
      * Development is ongoing, I've seen improvements recently
      * ...?
Con:
      * Not completely free (as in freedom)
      * Linux version is behind.

Best of luck with whatever you try,
CMP

On 3/20/06, William Schulz <sws at trilug.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 04:36:22PM -0500, Rick DeNatale wrote:
> > With all the VOIP devotees in the group, I was wondering if anyone has
> > played with gizmo?
>
> Yes, absolutely.  After hearing Andy Abramson rave about it enough I
> finally gave it a try.  It's not as polished as Skype, but it has
> excellent sound quality, etc.  And, as a benefit, it comes with some
> nice included features.
>
> http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2006/02/gizmo_over_leve.html
>
> Etc...
>
> SWS
>
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