On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
C wrote:
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
mk-lists@email.de wrote:
I am wondering whether KTp is actually already an alternative to Skype these days…
Any VoIP solution is an alternative, it's only a matter of who you want to talk to :-(
That is a real "gotcha". If the majority of your contacts are using Skype (on Windows/OSX/Android)... you're a bit stuck.
Yep, that's what I meant. It's a pity that Skype only works with Skype, imagine what that would have done to early telephony if you'd needed matching telephone devices.
Well... in a way you did need matching devices in the earliest systems.. and even into our generation. Some early phones were purely acoustic for example. Other phones were "party-line" systems that only worked with other "party-line" phones. Electricity was like that too, and there were proprietary systems that directly competed with each other on DC and AC transmission. Televisions went through a similar period (in the infancy) with mechanical vs electronic televisions. Even now, you have competing tech that requires matching devices (NTSC, PAL SECAM).
One alternative client that some people (in my circles at least) are starting to use is Viber.
I've seen that mentioned, but AFAIK it's only yet-another-voip solution. For the mobile it's seems downright silly, but maybe given the right kind of subscription ?
I use it a lot when calling friends/family. Viber-Viber (or Skype-Skype) calls, even with paying for mobile data is a lot cheaper than phone-phone (the cost of one hour of phone-phone to destinations I call is about the same as the cost for the data required for roughly 40 hours of Viber/Viber). Viber is also a LOT less battery draining than Skype. For the Linux desktop, it's a mix of Skype, Viber, Ekiga, and lately I've started tinkering with Telepathy. I'd prefer to roll it all into one client that allows me to connect to SIP, Skype and Viber... but... so far no luck. C -- openSUSE 13.1 x86_64, KDE 4.13 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org