GizmoCall - VoIP a la Adobe Flash

GizmoCall joins a steadily growing crowd of Adobe Flash-based VoIP tools, as it launched a web-based VoIP app on Monday.

Created by (who else?) Gizmo5, GizmoCall provides a quick online registration setup, and you're in business to make calls. Toll free (800-category) calls are free, as are calls to SIP addresses, other GizmoCall users and Gizmo5 users. GizmoCall can also accept inbound calls to the login user name, so long as the app is running in a window or browser tab (foreground or background). You can also drop one line onto a webpage to do inbound calling from GizmoCall.

A cool feature is a Firefox add on/plug in to enable any phone number on a web page to be clickable and called through GizmoCall. However, to make outbound calls, that's where having a Gizmo5 GizmoCall account comes in handy, with outbound calls starting at 1.9 cents per minute after forking over $10 for initial credits.

The Adobe Flash client should work on Mac, Windows and Linux platforms.

Adobe Flash 10 has been at the heart of sky-high IP controversy for VoIP calls, with Adobe Flash VoIP apps initially being able to work around firewall blocks for in-flight broadband services such as Gogo. GizmoCall may end up on a short list of blocked sites and/or apps by the airlines.

For more:
- A blog [1] on the new GizmoCall.