The IT Nerd

I’ve written about VoIP apps before, but this is a VoIP app of a different sort. Comwave recently released ePhone for BlackBerry 10 and it’s key differentiator is this. The App includes a built-in telephone number that users can choose, allowing them to receive incoming calls from any telephone around the world. So let’s say you choose a Toronto ePhone number and you happen to be travelling to Florida, first you would be able to call any phone number back home for free, and you would be able to receive calls from back home for free as well. That’s because your friends and colleagues back home could call Toronto ePhone number which is local to them. This is a key feature according to Comwave CEO Yuval Barzakay:

“While other Apps seem to put up walled gardens confining you to the App, ePhone allows you to communicate for free to non-ePhone users as well. Now, someone can be on their land line in New York calling an ePhone user across the globe for free,” 

ePhone enables tremendous cost savings for users starting with the fact that the App is free. ePhone uses a3G, 4G or Wi-Fi connection, and with W-Fi, users also do not need to worry about expensive data roaming fees while traveling. ePhone already includes free calling to the USA and Canada but you can add international minutes to your account in $5, $10 or $30 increments to call the world at very low rates. You can also use ePhone anywhere in the world. So even if you are in Europe, you can use ePhone to call landlines in North America absolutely free. Sweet!

ePhone is available for multiple platforms and devices including the BlackBerry Playbook and BlackBerry 10 smart phones. That’s something that Blackberry is happy about:

“BlackBerry is very pleased to have Comwave on BlackBerry 10,” said Martyn Mallick, VP of Global Alliances and Business Development at BlackBerry. “Customers will be able to enjoy ePhone’s features and money-saving capabilities”.

If you’re travelling for pleasure or for business and you need to make phone calls cheaply while you’re away, you should take a look at ePhone from Comwave. This is one VoIP app that will save you money.

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