[asterisk-users] MagicJack quality

[Steve Totaro]

I don't see Magicjack being around long.  The business model isn't
sustainable without tons of ads, and even then, people will either
ignore them if they are audio or if they are popups, they will simply
close them or disable them.

I might buy one just to hack it.  Has anyone sniffed it or poked
around at all on lists?

Thanks,
Steve T


On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:03 PM, C. Savinovich
<c.savinovich at itntelecom.com> wrote:
>
>  Yes, I have designed two different webphones, granted, using third party
> libraries, and magicjack's quality is better.  I acknowledge that.
>
>  Thank you, but referring me to someone's review won't help me much... I am
> interested in the internals.  Regardless, their technique has a twist, and I
> am a naturally very curious *technical* fellow.
>
> CS
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Joe Greco
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 5:41 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] MagicJack quality
>
>> I am puzzled by the quality of magicjack.  I keep trying to figure out how
>> they can the quality be that adequate.  Since Skype also has an excellent
>> quality, that leaves me to believe that software based calls (softphones)
>> could have and advantage over hardphones, provided there is a parameter
> that
>> those 2 companies are addressing.
>
> You are puzzled by the quality?
>
> http://www.laptopmag.com/review/voip/magicjack.aspx
>
> I don't know, but from the sounds of the comments, you'd get about just as
> much quality out of an actual cigarette lighter, and probably a good bit
> more usefulness.
>
> Nice EULA, by the way:
>
> http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/04/14/magicjacks-eula-says.html
>
> VoIP over the Internet isn't /that/ hard.
>
> ... JG
> --
> Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
> "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then
> I
> won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail
> spam(CNN)
> With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many
> apples.
>
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