Gizmo5
Gizmo5 (formerly known as Gizmo Project and SIPphone) was a voice over IP communications network and a proprietary freeware soft phone for that network. On November 12, 2009, Google announced that it had acquired Gizmo5. On March 4, 2011, Google announced that the service would be discontinued as of April 3, 2011.
| Original author(s) | SIPphone |
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| Initial release | July 2005 (as SIPphone) |
| Final release | 4.0.5.400 (Windows) November 12, 2009, 4.0.0.269 (Mac) September 23, 2009, 3.1.0.79 (Linux) November 29, 2007
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| Operating system | Mac OS X, Linux, Windows, Internet Tablet OS, Symbian |
| Type | Peer-to-peer internet telephony |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | www |
The Gizmo5 network used open standards for call management, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). However, the Gizmo5 client application was proprietary software and used several proprietary codecs, including GIPS and Internet Speech Audio Codec (iSAC).
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