VoipDiscount provides you with an intuitive broadband telephony application that you can use to communicate with friends and family, no matter where they are. Using the Voice over IP technology, it allows you to send SMS messages and make low-cost calls over the Internet.
The calls you make with VoipDiscount have different rates, depending on the destination country. The application provides support for both mobile and landline communication networks from all over the world and perceives no taxes for some popular destinations.
After logging in to your account, the main window is displayed, containing information about the total number of contacts and the available credit. You can easily call any online VoipDiscount user or a regular phone, provided you enter the number correctly, even if it is local (00 + countrycode + areacode + subscribernumber).
You can use VoipDiscount to chat with other users, which makes it similar to a standard instant messaging client. The profile can be customized by changing the status message and the user picture (avatar).
The application comes with an integrated address book that groups contacts into different categories, in order to help you quickly find the phone number you are looking for. The contact details can be added manually or imported from Windows Live Messenger, Skype or Outlook.
The contact list can be backed up in order to prevent data loss and the friends or acquaintances you often call are automatically included in the 'Most used contacts' list. Also, there is an option for sending contact details to a number in the address book.
Call history, incoming and outgoing call notifications, customizable hotkeys, call waiting, automatic phonebook pop-up, call forwarding are other advantages that this application brings you.
All in all, VoipDiscount is an Internet telephony utility that provides you with an alternative to standard voice communication methods. It enables you to stay in touch with friends for free or at very low rates.
What's New in This Release:
· general: Renamed Logon/Log off to Sign in/ Sign out in menu's. Optional to Sign out and forget password.
· feature: Adding a # in front of a number will hide caller id.
· bugfix: Solved crash in sms screen
· bugfix: Solved several bugs
· bugfix: Startup crash solved.
· bugfix: Audiowizard crash solved
· bugfix: minor fix
· bugfix: minor fixes
· bugfix: Some minor bug fixes.
· bugfix: When contact is offline and there's a phonenumber known, the phonenumber is called.
· bugfix: When user entered a number to dial without country, it's not handled as contact.
· bugfix: Minor changes
· bugfix: Memory leak solved in the internal graphics library.
· bugfix: In a network with an internet proxy the client could sometimes crash.
· bugfix: The client could crash when the wrong time was read from an ntp server.
· bugfix: The client could crash when the start of a dns resolution failed.
· bugfix: minor bugfixes
Users are advised to pay attention while installing this ad-supported application:
· Displays ad banners or other types of advertising material during its runtime