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simonb

Have you tried vox.io [http://www.vox.io]?

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No.. and going to their website tells me that

- I need an invite

- They are doing.. "stuff".

I've no idea what they are offering from the first couple minutes on the website. Can you recommend them? Why?

Service is not open for the public yet, but will be soon. However, there are many invites available on twitter and elsewhere.

Here's one: http://www.vox.io/r/KZZwni

You'll get 0.5€ of free credit which should be enough to test the service and see if you like it or not. Note that you need a real (existing) number for validation purposes (you'll receive an SMS with validation code), unless account is validated, calling isn't possible.

Apart from regular calls there are also other features like syncing with google contacts, anonymous calling (service generates a link and you can email it to someone and they can call you without registration), CLI.

Thanks a lot. Used that link, signed up. Got 0.5 EUR (which is a lot, with these rates. Nice!) and tried a first call.

Call was excellent on my side, very bad on the other side. "GTalk's better", "Lots of noise" and it got dropped after roughly 1:30 with both parties not hearing anything. I hang up after 20 more seconds and verified the results via GTalk with the other side.

First impression: Generous credit on sign up, slick and cool interface, but - yeah - first call was a miss so far. :( In other words: I'd love to love it. Will try again later/tomorrow.

Did you try calling the test bot? It's just an echo service that we've provided with which user can test if the connectivity is ok between his machine and vox.io server (and if mic settings are ok). Also, you can try to call yourself (I mean your mobile/fixed number), just to check the quality of audio. We try to route the calls through high quality gateways but sometimes a call is still not good.

Ah, so you're affiliated? :)

No, first thing I tried was a 'real world test', calling a German mobile number from here (Tel Aviv, Israel).

Yes, I am. I thought it was obvious enough without a disclaimer ;). I don't know who simonb is, though, and I wasn't planning to even answer your question since you want video calls and we only have video for vox.io to vox.io calls. There's no support for 3g video calls.

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