I made a quick translation of the german article: WengoPhone Classic is a free available SIP compliant VoIP-Client, which permits free calling from PC to PC and to SIP-Phones as well as the chargeable calling to landlines and cell phones (Call-Out). WengoPhone Classic is programmed and published by OpenWengo, a community of Free (as in speech) Software enthusiast. The goal of the OpenWengo community is to provide an enjoyable and friendly, yet productive, hub for Free software development related to VoIP technologies.
Characteristics The software functions, like some other softphones (a software for telephoning running on a pc), behind the most firewalls and NAT-Routers without any problems, as it uses the TCP-Port 80 for communication which is normally being used for surfing the world wide web and therefore it is open in most cases. WengoPhone Classic is Free Software published under the GNU GPL. WengoPhone Classic uses, compared to Skype, the open and compliant VoIP protocol SIP. The main advantage of that is: You can call every phone which supports the SIP standard without charge. Thereby that could be IP-Phones, softphones on computers but also normal phones which are connected to the internet through an adapter. The call history and contact lists are stored on the Wengo servers. Beyond of pure telephoning with WengoPhone Classic you can make video calls (up to your bandwidth in full view), chat with your friends and send SMS messages. Development Functions like voicemail, call deflection, conference call (for both audio and video), PIM-Synchronisation, data transfer and more are in development. Another goal is platform independence, so that versions for MacOS X, FreeBSD and Pocket PC become possible. -- Sebastian Heine _______________________________________________ Wengophone-devel mailing list Wengophone-devel@lists.openwengo.com http://dev.openwengo.com/mailman/listinfo/wengophone-devel
