Horrible voice quality caused not by poor flashsip technology, but by poor (cheap) terminating carriers Gizmo5 is using now, most probably to reduce expenses (remember Gizmo5 with Jajah deal). The quality you receive is appropriate to money you paid for it.

Gizmocall is neither flashphone.ru nor red5 based, please research a little bit deeper .

I’m responding against my better judgement. Whatever sentiments you assumed I was projecting as negative or insulting were not meant as such. The last paragraph you wrote should have been left off your post.

I use VoIP telephony almost exclusively. My first subscription was through Packet8 in 2002 using an ATA device. Since my 2004 purchase of a WiFi enabled mobile phone, I have used SIP protocol services. Quality varies only slightly from provider to provider. I’ve had an occasional bad connection and great connections with discount brands like VoIP Buster. I’ve never had a service which I needed to intelligently label as “Sux”.

That said, web initiated VoIP calling has too many obstacles to overcome. Its messy and once promising growth has halted.

WiFi enabled mobiles, (Nokia N&E’s, iPhone, etc) with platforms which can run VoIP apps have potential. Gizmo5, Truphone, Fring and Vyke are your best bets and all have consistently high call qualities, easy configuration, good feature sets and low rates.

The whole point of a “Browser based phone” – the title of the post – is to simplify the calling experience for any user. Abstracting out complexities – in this case, SIP configuration issues, network settings etc. – makes a product user friendly and appealing. Gizmo seems to have moved onto this bandwagon, but they miserably failed to achieve the quality compared to other providers. You are right about optimized settings for “home network” but it’s not just “home network”, but also “home grown” technology that will help you achieve the results rather than using some unproven provider for it.

My comment to Erick was for his mention about the APIs specifically. Comparing Flash APIs with other (Ringful, Gizmo) APIs undermines the power of a Browser based phone since every Tom, Dick and Harry has a normal click and call APIs which, in my opinion is nothing more than just connecting two calls over telco network and merely using the web to initiate it.

So, DJH, if you can’t carry out an intelligent conversation and think that we all are either too rich, lazy or inept, I suggest you go back to the hole you came out from and keep tinkering with your device/system/network settings.

@Erick, the APIs they have are just normal call APIs which every other company in this space has – no Flash APIs. Why so? Because, Gizmo hasn’t really built any technology. You guys should really do some research before putting out such articles which compares there APIs to Ribbit’s Flash APIs which is much more powerful!

Julien
GDI consultant
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