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SDK, which allows developers to make VoIP applications for the iPhone, is now available from Global IP Solutions. The applications can run over the phone’s WiFi connection, but not the 3G connection because Apple doesn’t allow that.

According to Crave:

This means that developers can now use GIPS’ VoiceEngine Mobile, to create real-time VoIP applications, such as games, social-networking applications, and, of course, applications for making calls to regular phone lines over the Internet. Soon enough, you will be able to use instant messenger to voice chat with friends on the iPhone, just like you’ve been doing on your computer for ages now.

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Juphoon, a Chinese company, is going to use Global IP Solutions (GIPS) Voice Engine IP Phone for its new VoIP Phone Reference Design.

“Implementing GIPS VoiceEngine technology has enabled us to successfully deal with challenges such as quality, network jitter, latency and echo, as well as multiple audio codec support,” said Vik Qian, General Manager at Juphoon. “Integration of GIPS’ technologies means our customers will enjoy an enhanced user experience with quality superior to PSTN and many other VoIP Phones currently on the market.”

VoiceEngine IP Phone meets the highest voice processing requirements of hardware today.

“VoiceEngine IP Phone takes advantage of our patented technology and expertise in providing the highest voice and video quality on the market,” said Steve Rust, Vice President Business Development at GIPS. “Juphoon now has a solution that solves the complex voice processing functions with one integral piece of software that offers wide-band voice quality.”

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Now Australians will also be able to use Internet mobile calling system. Nokia has teamed up with Australian VoIP Company Engin to offer unlimited VoIP calls with Wi-Fi connection.

Nokia announced that now Engin customers would be able to make a cheap Internet phone calls by using Nokia N80 Internet edition. Nokia N80 would be first mobile phone in Australia, which will provide Internet phone calling service.

The N80 Internet Edition is slightly different from its previous edition only by adding some extra software. It has an upgraded firmware version and also includes a VoIP programme with SIP capability and some other web applications. Engin has also made the the Engin Mobile Wizard, which will make easy for configuration of Nokia N80 Internet Edition for mobile users. The N80 can connect the Internet though Wi-Fi and also connect to Engins network through the included VoIP Internet phone call software with SIP. So, user can make VoIP Internet calls through the N80 handset.

According to company resources, the N80 Internet Edition is multipurpose mobile phone, which brings wireless LAN and robust browser together and support Internet calls. The N80 is featured with a 3-megapixel camera, and quadband GSM/WCDMA coverage.

Via: IT WIre

Source: voipcentral.org

Australia-based Engin and leading IT company HP have formed strategic partnership to push forward enriched VoIP services to the SMB market.

Under the deal, HP dx business desktops and nx notebooks would be integrated with Engin services. It would be done by the first of next month. The subscribers of Engin will be offered to make 100 free local or international calls for a period of three months.

Meanwhile, Engin has also signed another deal with Intel to insert its Softphone technology inside Intel PCI cards which would be marketed with specified HP desktops and notebooks.

The Softphone technology changes phone signals to digital signals, then transmits digital signals over broadband internet connection. There by, it enables cheap VoIP calls to landlines within Australia for 10 cents.

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A joint Atug and Engin survey and a report on Fixed Voice Services Market that was released last week revealed that a number of Australian companies have dumped fixed lines in favour of VoIP and mobile. If the recent reports are to be believed, there is a clear indication that the trend to VoIP and moving away from fixed-line phones is now gathering steam.

Market Clarity, another research firm made a similar forecast that there would be a steady and continued decline of fixed phone lines as broadband adoption corrects an inflated market for second-line services.

Shara Evans, CEO, Market Clarity, said,

Businesses started buying IP PABXs or call managers several years ago and began implementing telephony over their local area network - getting QOS in place and testing out the deployment. We are just starting to get into that full swing now - and so we’re seeing businesses that no longer need as many basic access lines. Instead they are putting some of that traffic across their own data network, and in most cases that is not the public Internet, but a carrier-grade network.

This is not surprising as it is happening in many parts of the world. But is PSTN is really going away? Hmm.. I am not too convinced that it is, at least its death is not imminent. There would be declinations in fixed lines, but it cannot be complete replaced, with VoIP and all.

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