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VoIP – Web Journalist Blog https://blog.webjournalist.org Tech. Culture. Journalism. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:01:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Testing out iCall – free VoIP iPhone app https://blog.webjournalist.org/2010/01/28/testing-out-icall-free-voip-iphone-app/ Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:01:37 +0000 http://blog.webjournalist.org/?p=196 iCall is the new iPhone app that allows you to do Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls over the Web and 3G. VoIP, while much cheaper, is also generally known for low audio quality. Sorry, it’s true.

Well, it’s also true here. The audio quality from my iCall call was pretty bad… but remember you get what you pay for.

Compared to a traditional cell phone or land line, the audio quality is dramatically worse. Granted I was on AT&T’s not-so-great network, but you can’t blame them for everything and you can’t blame them for this.

The audio was slurred coming in when I heard my voicemail greeting and it was stuttered going out when I heard the audio playback.

Compared to Skype, the quality is also worse. But, in a pinch, this may be a cool app to have.

That said, this may happen to be a coincidence, but my battery was drained from 70 percent to 20 percent five minutes after the call.

Verdict: I don’t recommend this app when GoogleVoice is around the corner.

I uploaded my the audio so you can check it out.

Listen!

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