Hello. As you maybe now Google released first ChromeOS version yesterday. We have tested it and found that Flash Player 10.0.32.18 has been built-in. And yes, that means that Flaphone works in ChromeOS, so we already have VoIP client available for new OS! I remind you that you can use Flaphone to make VoIP calls to PSTN/Mobiles using any SIP provider you want, make calls to Skype or SIP, callme widgets will also work in ChromeOS. Great news!
Now every flaphone user can make a call from flaphone to skype. You need to enter sip:skypeusername@skype (Example - you need to call skype user with username james - it will be sip:james@skype) while none(global) account selected for outgoing SIP calls and press the call button, skype user with skype_username will see incoming call from Flaphone. You can also use this feature for your CallMe widgets in the same way. We are testing this feature, so we need to have your feedback.
P.S. It will work if you are calling to Skype user who allows to receive incoming calls from skype users that aren’t in contact-list
We have finished flashphone 2 as we promised, but we renamed it to flaphone and moved to www.flaphone.com domain, all user data was moved to new service as well, so all flashphone.ru users and their accounts, including SIP accounts moved to flaphone.com, they can login and continue using our service. All new users have to pass registration procedure. We’ve spent a lot of time trying to make service more convenient and to add features our users were asking us for… we couldn’t add all features they asked but we added a lot. Now users can use contact list, can add/edit/remove SIP accounts right in flash app, can check their callhistory, can send and receive instant messages to each other and to/from SIP because flaphone supports SIP IM, flapone supports new flash player 10 feature - Speex audio codec, it supports h263/h263+/h264 codecs for SIP video calls, it supports fullscreen video chat, it supports presence - now you can see if your buddies are online, we added convenient select of SIP account for call (removed hard for most users routing system), we’ve improved CallMe widget - now you can enable keypad to send DTMF via it and many other things… I think it’s better to check everything by yourselves - welcome http://www.flaphone.com
Our product Zingaya Media Server allows to create Flash VoIP applications compatible with SIP protocol. We’ve found out that many new CRM systems are web-based and it would be cool to have CRM+VoIP right in your web-browser window, it’s very convenient, imagine - you just click to customer’s number in your CRM and Flash VoIP module initiate this call (Skype out integration works in the same way) or you got incoming call in flash and CRM opens page with calling customer info .Our server can be setup to work with your corporate SIP PBX or Call center or just some SIP provider. Now we are working on module for SugarCRM (see the screenshot) one of the most popular web-based opensource CRM systems, later will check what can be done with Salesforce and others.
Flashphone is web-based SIP softphone, gtalk2voip is very interesting internet service allows users to:
Calling SIP phones and SIP services.
Receiving calls to your IM from any SIP phone.
with MSN, gtalk and Yahoo messengers. Both services are free. We’ve made some test calls and found it working very well. For example, if someone is online in Gtalk and you want to call him from flashphone you just need to enter SIP URI like sip:google_username@gtalk2voip.com and gtalk user will see incoming call. You also can easily call to flashphone from gtalk via gtalk2voip, add contact like [flashphone_login]_at_flashphone.ru@gtalk2voip.com and call to this contact, flashphone will ring if user online. If you remember our cool feature - CallMe widget, you can setup your widget to call directly your gtalk messenger if enter appropriate SIP URI as number to call.
P.S. We will continue our work with gtalk2voip to find new interesting features.
Many Flashphone users (about 75000 now) like our browser-based SIP softphone as zero downloads and installations are required. But if you are using flashphone to receive incoming calls it’s not always convenient, that it’s browser-based and for the people, who likes our service, we created AIR version of Flashphone. Now you can install it in few click with Adobe AIR runtime (if it’s not installed yet) and get real SIP softphone which works in the same way like browser-based one, but you can minimize it to system tray and be sure that you are online and ready to receive calls. Sure there are lot of things to improve in this version, so we are expecting feedback from our users. Here is Install badge:
P.S. Forgot to mention - SIP providers accounts are to be added via web interface yet
You had to send us request via email to get your widget, you couldn’t change it’s look and feel, you couldn’t change SIP URI or number by yourself, but now everything changed. Just login to Flashphone and you’ll see a new button “CALLME widget”
After click on the button you’ll see CallMe widget settings panel
Let me describe all sections of the settings panel:
Preview - it’s just a visual preview of your callme widget, you can switch between 3 states used to show different connection state.
Settings - this section is used to customize button’s label for different states and Number or SIP URI your widget will call to (this data is stored on server). If you are entering Number, be sure that you’ve added your SIP provider account in Account Manager, if you want your widget to call directly to flashphone when you are logged in, just enter your login in that field. Don’t forget to click on “Save” button to store this settings on server. “Generate embed code button” can be used when you’ve already set all settings for your widget, you’ll see popup window with widget’s HTML code (like in youtube).
Widget settings, Button attributes, Connecting label - visual settings for different elements of callme widget. This settings are stored in flash player local cache to be restored after you open CallMe widget settings next time and will be sent to embed code generator when you are ready to get your HTML code.
While working on flashphone2 we’ve decided to make an update to current version of service to support video calls. Video will be available for user to user calls (flash2flash), so as for SIP calls (flash2SIP) - for SIP calls H.263 codec will be available. Now we aren’t going to provide with many settings for video, it will be very close to X-lite implementation, you can see it on screenshots:
We are glad to inform that we have implemented video calls support from flash to SIP and from SIP to flash, so as flash to flash video calls (flash to flash is common feature, nothing new…). Now Zingaya Media Server supports video calls to SIP softphones or hardphones with H.263 video codec support. We are going to include this new feature to Flashphone 2 and allow flashphone users make video calls between each other and to external SIP soft/hardphones. Just think about that video calling without software installation and without endless list of software settings!
Here are some images of video calls from x-lite to our flash application and back:
P.S. I got only one webcam and haven’t downloaded webcam emulator yet to show you video in both directions simultaneously.