Filed under: Video, Windows, Freeware, VoIP
New Gizmo Project beta adds N810 support
by Ted Wallingford Dec 1st 2007 at 9:00AM
If desktop VoIP calling program Gizmo Project previously had a reputation as a Skype Killer, it's now official: Skype is dead. Gizmo has always done things Skype couldn't--like custom on-hold music, SIP compatibility, meta-IM with support for Yahoo, MSN, and Google Talk, and a slew (that means dozens) of other things. Indeed, some of us here at Download Squad haven't had Skype in our startup items for a year or more. Gizmo Project 4.0 beta just hit the wild. New in this edition are a reworked avatar system, tabbed text chatting, a totally redesigned user interface, and video calling, a feature that we got a first look at with an earlier beta release last month.
Ordinarily, Gizmo Project's creator, SIPPhone Inc., does a good job of getting features to their Mac and Linux editions in a hurry (though 4.0 beta isn't yet available for Mac). In this case, however, the Nokia N800/N810 version is also ready to rock, which really excites us, since Nokia's Internet Tablets have built-in cameras that are ideal for video calling.
As with previous versions of the Project, you can still make outgoing (and receive incoming) telephone calls, and make yourself reachable via a sipphone.com URI. So, with the last nail in Skype's coffin being hammered in by the good folks at SIPPhone, we're asking ourselves if we'll ever need to run Skype again. After all, with services like GrandCentral supporting Gizmo Project, and with the availability of a native Gizmo Project client for mobile phones, it looks like Gizmo Project is ready to bury eBay's redheaded stepchild.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
GC said 12:09PM on 12-01-2007
Check out fring, it works on symbian as well as windows pased palms and cells.
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robert said 12:33PM on 12-01-2007
Well, Gizmo might have all these features what does that helps when it doesn't run at all behind restrictive firewalls? Every time I've tried running it at work it started to eat 100% cpu and that was it. Skype at least works pretty much in every kind of network setup. Although it is becoming quite a resource hog.
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chris joseph said 2:54PM on 12-02-2007
This program isn't going to kill anything if I have to add all my yahoo, msn, and google contacts by hand... there is no import feature.
Also, no video. Skype is one of the best video calling applications available for free.
Gizmo project isn't getting skype off my computer, nor is it killing any of my other IM clients.
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peegee said 8:52PM on 12-02-2007
Call out rates are very high
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