<div dir="ltr">One day I was poking around my desktop and found that Ekiga had come preinstalled. I fired it up and was dutifully impressed with all the "new and exciting" features they promoted. (This was about 3 versions ago).<br>
I liked that it loaded up the first time quickly and seamlessly, and walked me through getting my very own free SIP address.<br>Then when I tried actually using it I discovered to my chagrin that everybody I know uses Skype.<br>
My account is still around somewhere, and probably still active, but I have nothing that I can do with it.<br>Maybe people will migrate from Skype, but maybe not.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pub@goldshmidt.org">pub@goldshmidt.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Oleg Goldshmidt <<a href="mailto:pub@goldshmidt.org">pub@goldshmidt.org</a>> writes:<br>
<br>
> - my friends and family having an account on the service to stay in<br>
> touch for free<br>
> - seamless integration into Linux+Android<br>
> - cheap (compared to any "special" offer I have ever received from<br>
> long-distance providers) international calls to phones, especially<br>
> mobile phones, from any country (OK, Europe+N.America+Israel as<br>
> primary targets) to any other country.<br>
><br>
> If anyone has suggestions, I am curious.<br>
<br>
</div>Time to invest development effort into something like ekiga on<br>
Android? How GNOMEish is it?<br>
<br>
Does anyone use it? I realize that out of the 3 requirements above the<br>
1st is unlkely to ever be satisfied, at least until the Android part<br>
of the 2nd is done, but what about the 3rd one right now? Does it<br>
work? What are the prices like?<br>
<br>
Not that I am ready to drop Skype tomorrow, but what *are* the<br>
potential alternatives?<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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Oleg Goldshmidt | <a href="mailto:pub@goldshmidt.org">pub@goldshmidt.org</a><br>
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