One of the key devices with traditional telephony is a wireless handset, both in residential as in business use. When it comes to VoIP telephony, cordless telephones are nowhere near as standardized as their analog counterparts. One of the reasons for this, is the standard used for wireless VoIP telephony, or the lack thereof. While it would obviously make sense to opt for WiFi as the cordless VoIP standard, the technology has its issues when it comes to real-time communication.

(more…)

We’ve been using and recommending CounterPath’s (formerly Xten) softphones ever since we started in the VoIP business and it’s always been a great product, from the free XLite to Xpro and eventually EyeBeam. About a week ago, CounterPath added a new product to their family of software VoIP phones, Bria. Apparently they bumped it to 2.0 right away, because I cannot recall having seen a 1.0 version ever before. Oh well.

(more…)