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Most VoIP vendors these days offer a softphone for mobile devices, which amounts to a software phone that will run on designated mobile devices but bill calling costs to the VoIP account.
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Network Inventory Advisor for Mac v.1.1.2573 Network Inventory Advisor for Mac is an agentless remote Mac inventory software. It discovers all network OS X nodes by IP or network names, scans them for technical data from System Profiler and compiles great-looking customizable reports. Using the Bria softphone for iPad on a plane to make VoIP calls. The calls were very good quality and supported wideband codecs like G.722, SILK, and Opus. Of course Opus (which Bria includes but most other softphone clients do not) works best due packet concealment and variable bitrate (VBR). No Cisco softphones are available for the Macintosh that would work with the UC520. Cisco has the Unified Personal Communicator that will work with the Mac, but it requires Cisco Unified Presence. Your only option for a Mac softphone would be a 3rd party SIP client. Softphone for PC-telephony using TAPI, CAPI or SIP plus answering machine Phoner is a free softphone for ISDN and VoIP telephony. An answering machine and Text-To-Speech support complete the large package.
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I use/used to use Blink Pro. While not the prettiest of the bunch, it is full-featured. Mac Contact integration, support for any/all SIP technologies (SRTP/TLS in particular), decent user interface, etc. The only problem is, for the past two MacOS upgrades, it crashes upon starting up. With Sierra it took them about a month to fix. Now, I just upgraded to High Sierra (MacOS 10.13), and again I'm crashing upon startup. I've tried the usual fixes (completely clearing all traces, reinstalling), and I'm just not working. For $80, I could say it has served me well, but it's really a bummer that it completely stops working with a normal and regular software upgrade.
My requirements (which no one product seems to fit so far) are:
- Integration with Mac Contacts (or at least the ability to import vCard or similar)
- TLS/SRTP support
- Support for multiple SIP accounts (I use this to connect to my own PBX as well as those of clients)
- UI that isn't completely garbage. I'm definitely willing to put up with some level of garbage-y interface
What I've tried so far, and why they haven't worked
- Blink Pro -- again, great product, decent interface, meets all my needs. Unfortunately, it breaks with each MacOS update now, and support is non-existent.
- Linphone -- I tried v3 awhile back, and wow v4 is quite the UI improvement! v3 was utter garbage, and this is just short of beautiful. Decently-intuitive, links up with my UDP and TLS/SRTP accounts alike, no issues with multiple registrations. Unfortunately, there is no integration with Mac Contacts, and there is NO way to import contacts. I'm investigating editing the sqlite DB it uses now to see if I can finagle some kind of programmatic way to do this, but I'm not holding my breath
- call.center -- Again, really beautiful product. I don't like some of its UI choices, but overall this is really beautiful and seems to be functional. I think this has some great potential, but for now it doesn't seem to support TLS/SRTP. No documentation to speak of, and no support contact that I can find. I did use the 'feedback' button on their website, but not holding my breath.
What I might try next
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- iSP - VoIP Calls -- This looks pretty ugly, but that wouldn't necessarily scare me off. I can't find much documentation on it, so not sure how it handles multiple accounts and TLS/SRTP. For $45 it would be a gamble (although I suppose I could request a refund from the App Store -- no guarantees on refunds anymore AFAIK
- Zoiper -- Used this back in the day, and it was quite the ugly duckling. Their website suggests it might have grown into a swan. Looks to be free, and I'll probably give that a shot next. Best desktop app mac for invest.
- Bria -- Again, I used this back in the day and didn't like it, I believe for UI reasons. Will give that a shot after Zoiper and/or iSP I think.
FWIW, I use Groundwire (from Acrobits) on my phone, and it's an AWESOME product. I e-mailed Acrobits about a Mac version (come on, how hard is it to port between iOS and MacOS nowadays with how similar the coding is??), and they don't sell to consumers -- only really expensive packages to VoIP providers who then rebrand and provide to their customers. He did say they are working on a retail product that should be out sometime next year, which will then probably be getting my money.
This is for my business, and I'm certainly not averse to paying a decent amount of money for the right product. If anyone has any ideas feel free to reply or PM me.
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