August 18, 2006
VoIP Roundup - Fri Aug 18/06
Skype has released version 2.1 beta of their client for PocketPC smartphones, which will actually work on either Windows CE or Windows Mobile 5 devices. [via The VoIP Weblog]
The question of how VoIP calls get routed to their proper destination over the Internet depends on several methods, none of which are standardized. Some people think that this hinders adoption of VoIP for enterprise. So a set of protocols called ENUM (tElephone NUmber Mapping) was devised which is tied directly to domain names or IP addresses in really clever, simple way. Read more at Extreme VoIP.
I'm not the only who makes nearly all of my calls via VoIP or a cell phone. Phoneboy does so as well, but uses Gizmo Project whereas I use Skype for the free SkypeOut in Canada and the US. Although the pc2phone call quality of Skype (and other soft clients) is pretty bad, as Phoneboy points out.
But using Gizmo does have some shortcomings, too. Go have a read (it's short) about how he got around a not being able to mute his handset during an 800 number-based conference call.
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