First Free Mobile-to-Mobile Cross-Platform Calls

• Posted: Saturday, October 21, 2006
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• Author: pradhana
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Barablu Demonstrates Free Calling From Nokia Series 60 Based Phones to Win Mobile Phones and PDAs Using Wi-Fi Connection. Both Nokia E Series and N Series Wi-Fi Enabled Phones Tested, Showing Not Only Voice but IM, Video and Conference Calling.

Barablu, the free calls community, demonstrated the world's first free calls between several Symbian Series 60 based Nokia GSM mobiles and Microsoft Windows Mobile based GSM mobiles. Barablu's announcement extends VoIP interoperability to two of the largest and fastest growing categories of Wi-Fi enabled mobiles. Using its small footprint download, Barablu also enables IM sessions, video calls and conference calling all for free within the Barablu community.
Any Barablu enabled device (PC, PDA or Mobile) can also be used to make Barablu Out calls outside of the Barablu network at rates competitive to Skype.

The company believes that the benefits of interoperability, mobility and presence awareness will drive greater traffic to the network that first offers it as a complete package. The combination of free mobile-to-mobile cross-platform calls, free chat, and a unique PC-to-mobile instant messaging service, delivers Barablu a substantial competitive advantage. Barablu plans to drive growth by strategically linking with Wi-Fi network providers, manufacturers, mobile operators and PC and IP phone manufacturers to offer more choice, therefore appealing to the widest audience.

Barablu CEO, Pascal Isbell, says "Millions of people globally now benefit from free PC-to-PC calls via VoIP. Now they want to add mobility to this facility. Barablu is the first company to provide consumers with this technology interoperably in the mobile arena by offering free mobile-to-mobile cross-platform calls, utilizing VoIP, via a Wi-FI standard."

Download the dialer from www.barablu.com on your mobile and register your username and password to start making calls.

Add all your usual contacts using the 'Search Contacts' function and call them from wherever and whenever on their PC, mobile or IP phone. If they are busy on another call or are not online, your call can be diverted to voice mail; which is also free if leaving a message for another Barablu user. Receiving incoming calls is equally easy; an alert box will appear on your mobile screen, simply click 'Yes' to pick up the call and 'No' to reject.

With Barablu Chat you can chat in real-time with any other Barablu user whether via PC or mobile phone. It is the first service to bring Instant Messaging directly to a mobile phone.

Barablu users can make reduced-rate calls outside the network using Barablu Out. Signing up is free and a EUR10 credit allows you to start making Barablu Out calls. Rates are as low as 1c a minute, to the UK, US and many parts of Europe.

To receive calls you need to set up MyNumber - a local number that you can be contacted on. You pay only EUR2/month to start receiving calls for free.

Source: ABI Research

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