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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: June 02, 2006
- Total Downloads: 27,460
- Downloads last week: 65
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 32 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Does the world really need another VoIP client? Here's one Gizmo that thinks so.
Gizmo's interface is compact and rectangular, with tabs on the top just below the Menu bar and a series of ancillary commands like Chat and Add Contact available at the bottom. There are very few differences between Gizmo's design and its biggest competitor's, and a little originality could've gone a long way here.
Also similar to Skype, Gizmo provides free VoIP for computer-to-computer voice chatting as well as text chatting. It also allows for computer-to-telephone voice chatting for both mobile phones and landlines. It has one feature that Skype lacks: it lets you conference call with multiple PCs by entering in a random, shared number. Overall, the sound clarity and quality was excellent, with no lagging nor echoing. Gizmo also says it provides asymmetrical chat-client VoIP, so you can use Gizmo and your headset to talk to somebody on Windows Live or Google Talk. We couldn't get that feature to work, but it's a smart idea and we hope it gets debugged soon.
Overall, Gizmo's got some good stuff and some room for improvement. If you despise Skype or are just interested in alternatives, you might want to give this one a try, but otherwise we'd recommend holding off.
Publisher's description
From SIPphone :An Internet telephone as simple as an instant messenger. Make all your calls from the comfort of your desktop. With Gizmo, it s point, click, and talk. Say hello to anyone online, anywhere on Earth. Call the traditional telephone world for low rates; get a real telephone number, voicemail, blasts (sound effects), and record calls.
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Version: Gizmo Project 2.0.0.165
"higher quality than Skype, and there is free encryption"
Pros: Skype was so bad, and I wondered what else I could use. been using Gizmo for several months now, and never had any problems. the sound is so crystal clear, even talking outside the U.S.. voicemail feature is excellent, and its so easy to record the calls (quality is very good too).
lastly, the inventor of PGP recently wrote Zfone which encrypts your VoIP calls so that not even the government can snoop on your VoIP calls!! its free, and works with Gizmo but not Skype.
Cons: Skype is now owned by eBay, and apparently is offering free calls temporarily to landline phones and even cellphones (via SkypeOut). new folks might thus be tempted to use Skype, but really the sound quality sucks (I used Skype for several months). also, Gizmo is open source, while Skype is doing everything it can to shut out non-Skype computer programming. not friendly at all, so I don't trust Skype either.
btw, I don't IM, so I can't talk about other people's complaints about not being able to IM friends using MSN, AIM, etc..
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Gizmo Project 2.0.0.165
Pros: After trying more then 20 similiar programs only this one and Google-talk had superior voice quality and were consistent in their connections whether dialup or high speed.
Cons: Rather large footprint and medium system resource usage.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Gizmo Project 2.0.0.165
Pros: I tried similar programs, but found this working extremely well. I enjoy this service every day so much - excellent sound quality. Thanks for this free service working so well.
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