Twinklephone Review :Twinklephone (or just "Twinkle") is a softphone SIP client
posted on 17 Sep 2008 06:54 by call-voip-phoneTwinklephone Review
Twinklephone (or just "Twinkle") is a softphone SIP client for *nix clones such as Linux and FreeBSD. Since I run the latter, I'll concentrate on reviewing for that platform.
It is a straight SIP client; there is no Skype, video or IM support yet, although video and IM are on the wishlist of the developer.
Getting it Running
Having tried Kphone (which worked to a point) and Linphone (which is now broken on FreeBSD due to an incompatibility with libosip2), Twinklephone was a surprising find. Not only did it build easily, but it actually worked first time. In fact, the only thing I had to do to get it going properly was build a SIP proxy on my gateway machine (due to NAT issues which are beyond the scope of this reveiw).
It is a straight SIP client; there is no Skype, video or IM support yet, although video and IM are on the wishlist of the developer.
Getting it Running
Having tried Kphone (which worked to a point) and Linphone (which is now broken on FreeBSD due to an incompatibility with libosip2), Twinklephone was a surprising find. Not only did it build easily, but it actually worked first time. In fact, the only thing I had to do to get it going properly was build a SIP proxy on my gateway machine (due to NAT issues which are beyond the scope of this reveiw).
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