While I was away on holiday Telio launched their long promised softphone for telephone and videophone. Just when the summer was more or less over. This was what I would have liked to bring with me. Not the adapter and an analoge phone. At the moment the softphone is only available for Windows, but hopefully we can expect versions for PocketPC, Linux and MacOS X. The service is still in a beta, but my first experiences with the solution is great.

The service is free for excisting Telio customers, and all softphone users get their second phone number that can be used where ever you are in the world. This part is a little bit disappointing. I hoped for a softphone working next to the VoIP adapter, with the same phone number. The solution brings something cool with it, something Telio has called Wideband Voice, that is a service between two Telio Softphone users where the quality between the two users is far better then what we till now have been used to within telecommunication.

The software solution Telio has chosen is Xten’s market leading eyeBeam. eyeBeam is currently only available for Windows and MacOS X, but Xten also has the X-Pro softphone for Linux and PocketPC.

Telio is currently also looking in to videophone hardware. I can hardly wait… but what I really want is a wifi phone.