Switchvox Mobile on your iPhone or Blackberry

Are you mobile?  Do your clients have to juggle 2 or more phone numbers to reach you because you are sometimes at your desk but most of the time all over the place?  Don’t you wish your business card were a little less cluttered with just one contact phone number that you can be reached at all the time?  You can have these things now, and you probably won’t even have to buy anything!

Businesses running Switchvox 4.6 or 4.5 already have the ability to stream the Switchvox desktop phone functionality to iPhones and Blackberries.  If you are using Switchvox for your desktop phone system and you have an iPhone or a Blackberry, you are less than 10 minutes from enjoying all the features your desk phone has to offer on your SmartPhone!

Ready? Let’s get mobile!

Once you enter the App store, search for Switchvox Mobile.  This App is a FREE DOWNLOAD!!!! (Don’t you just love FREE)

Switchvox Mobile for Blackberry

-          For Blackberry go to www.BlackBerry.com/AppWorld 

-          For iPhone go to www.apple.com/iphone

(This is neat…. If you don’t have Switchvox yet, but want to see how Switchvox mobile works, you can download the App and use it in DEMO mode!!!! )

-iPhone Users – click here for easy to follow instructions on how to set up your iPhone for Switchvox Mobile (with Pictures!)

-BlackBerry Users – click here for easy to follow instructions on how to set up your Blackberry for Switchvox Mobile

See details, listen to your voicemails, and return calls at the touch of a button.Access your Switchvox Company directory without logging into the internet.Remotely set your greetings without a chain of touch-tone commands.Make calls out either from your SmartPhone number or your Switchvox extension.Set up call rules using an easy GUI while away from the office.See call history from your SmartPhone while nowhere near your desk. Even see call history on your SmartPhone for calls you made from your desk!

Asterisk Voicemail for iPhone 0.13

Asterisk Voicemail for iPhone allows you to check your voicemail messages on your Asterisk phone system from your iPhone (or iPod Touch). It has been suggested that I rename the software to something more generic, since the iPod Touch is also fully supported.
Asterisk Voicemail for iPhone is quite similar to the "Asterisk Voicemail for Apple Touch".. Thoughts?
It works similar to the native iPhone Visual Voicemail, allowing you to list messages, listen to messages, display caller-id information, delete messages, move messages, return calls and change voicemail settings all from your iPhone.
The technology behind it is Asterisk (The Open-Source VoIP PBX), PHP for the backend, Smarty and iUI for the frontend.
NoteThis software is a PHP web-application which resides on your Asterisk server. Dont be confused into thinking that this is a native iPhone application. If you dont run or manage an Asterisk server, then this is not for you.

System requirements:
- iPhone or iPod touch.

Enhancements
- Changed listen link to listen.php, removing the need for Apache Alias.
- Added g_debug_path. Debug path was hard coded which caused crash if not exist.

StarView Solutions New istarsip iPhone Application Available at App Store

StarView Solutions New istarsip iPhone Application Available at App Store StarView Solutions New istarsip iPhone Application Available at App StoreAustin, Texas-based StarView Solutions, a provider of business-ready Unified Communications as a Service “UCaaS” announced that it has launched a new native SIP/VoIP phone application, istarsip 3.0, in the Apple Store. This new application is the company’s first dual mode VoIP calling application for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. David Walsh, president of StarView Solutions said that istarsip is the company’s first phone app which turns a smart phone into a virtual VoIP phone and can reduce long distance charges while traveling or calling overseas. The application was developed because other similar applications were lacking some key functionality and feature issues that the company was able to incorporate.
The istarsip 3.0 phone application adds a second number to any iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad that works over 3G, WiFi or cellular networks. It is completely automated and requires no hardware or software configurations to use the application. Additionally, it can seamlessly integrate with StarView’s Hosted PBX solution as well as traditional office and home phones.
As opposed to other applications that share phone lines, every user of istarsip has a dedicated line. It also has enterprise capability which enables users to turn their mobile phone into an office extension to send and receive calls over their company’s phone system.
Available as a free download from Apple Inc.’s App Store at www.itunes.com/appstore, the new istarsip 3.0 supports Apple Inc.’s push notification service. With this, users will have the ability to receive notifications about new incoming calls even when the app is not running on their mobile phone.
Apart from having value-added services as well as linking mobile and phone lines, the new istarsip 3.0 also features many professional grade features such as good call quality, separate voicemail and notification, call waiting/call transfer, speaker phone support, multiple ringtones, mute/hold capability, phone number shortcuts, and more.
David Roberts, CEO of Teligistics, said, “This Starship application is a major step in controlling wireless costs for global companies. The app is easy to use and the rates are more favorable than most enterprise-level contract pricing schemes we have seen for enterprise and global customers. This is an app we will recommend to clients for controlling international wireless costs.”
StarView's service offerings include converged voice and data packages, Hosted PBX, SIP trunks, network monitoring, diagnosis and event management, private line and multi-site MPLS connections, fax-to-email services, toll-free numbers, and wholesale carrier termination.

By Jayashree Adkoli.

iPhone VoIP arrives with compromises.

iPhone VoIP arrives with compromises.Apple Inc. has brought in the newest iPhone 3G model, more than one million of these devices were sold the first weekend that they became available for purchase. For the first time Apple began to offer third-party software through their App Store that will run on both newest and earlier iPhone models which must be upgraded to OS version 2.0. For many users concerned with calling costs VoIP implementation is most important. VoIP implementation will let them lower costs of calling overseas from a cell phone. Still, as is the situation with all mobile VoIP solutions, iPhone VoIP will come with a number of compromises

The very first company which released a VoIP application for the new iPhone was Truphone. When downloaded and installed on the iPhone this software lets Truphone's app make calls through the company's VoIP own network from wifi spots. The problem is that this application won’t allow users to connect to the VoIP network via cellular voice links the way it is possible using Truphone Anywhere service, which was announced in May 2008. If it did, thugh, iPhone users would be able to call overseas cheap even when wifi hotspots aren’t available nearby, paying only local mobile charges plus low international VoIP rates set by Truphone.

Another company with VoIP application iPhone, 8x8 Inc.'s, offers an app called Packet8 MobileTalk. This application uses the mobile voice network to transmit calls between the iPhone and the VoIP network but it doesn't make use of wifi. In order to achieve this, the app eschews the downloaded 8x8’s client software used to provide MobileTalk to users of other cell phones. Instead, Packet8 MobileTalk for iPhone uses a Web host reachable through the iPhone browser.

Once the number has been entered by a user, the Web host reads a cookie stored by the browser in order to find out who is making the call and thus establishes the connection. A command is then sent from host to the browser that instructs the iPhone to dial a local Packet8 access code. From now on, the call goes through the Packet8 VoIP network. According to 8x8's vice president of engineering Ramprakash Narayanaswamy, the host-based approach is essential because third-party applications are unable to access the iPhone dialer without deviation.

Like many others iPhone apps of all sorts, JAJAH Inc.'s iPhone VoIP application is still expecting to receive Apple's green light before users will be able to acquire it through the Apple’s App Store. It is a promising and effective app. As reported by JAJAH co-founder Roman Scharf, it will allow iPhones to make calls via EDGE, 3G, or wifi networks in order to connect with the JAJAH VoIP network. A call travels through the data network provided the quality of that link is adequate or if the user sets that it do so irrespective. Otherwise, JAJAH uses a usual VoIP callback implementation, i.e. where JAJAH dials both the iPhone and the overseas number that the user is willing to contact and connects the two calls by means of a VoIP link.

ICall Inc.'s planned releasing another iPhone application and it is in beta testing at this moment. This new app is going to use wifi links to access the VoIP network just like Truphone. A radically distinctive feature of this app is the ability to alternate between a cellular call to a wifi call and vice-versa without disrupting the conversation. ICall asserts that such alternations will be seamless to users.