Phoner
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 Phoner on Windows 7 | |
| Developer(s) | Heiko Sommerfeldt |
|---|---|
| Initial release | February 1998[1] |
| Stable release | 3.23
/ March 5, 2021[2] |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Size | 4.79MB |
| Available in | 12 languages[2] |
List of languages English, German, Dutch, Italian, Greek, Czech, Bulgarian, French, Spanish, Persian, Portuguese, Polish | |
| Type | VoIP |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | phoner |
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 PhonerLite on Windows 10 | |
| Initial release | 1 June 2005 |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 3.20
/ August 7, 2023[3] |
| Size | 6.70MB |
| Available in | 10 languages[4] |
List of languages Arabic, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish | |
| Website | lite |
PhonerandPhonerLitearesoftphoneapplications forWindowsoperating systems available asfreeware.Phoner is a multiprotocol telephony application supporting telephony viaCAPI,TAPIandVoIP,while PhonerLite provides a specialized and optimizeduser interfacefor VoIP only. Beside the different user interface focus both programs share the same code base.
Both programs use theSession Initiation Protocolfor VoIP call signalisation. Calls are supported via server-based infrastructure or direct IP to IP. Media streams are transmitted via theReal-time Transport Protocolwhich may be encrypted with theSecure Real-time Transport Protocol(SRTP) and theZRTPsecurity protocols. Phoner provides as well an interface for configuring and using all supplementaryISDNservices provided via CAPI and thus needs an ISDN terminal adapter hardware installed in the computer.
Both programs supportIPv4andIPv6connections by usingUDP,TCPandTLS.
Supported audio formats
[edit]- G.711A-law: 64 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
- G.711 μ-law: 64 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
- G.722:64 kbit/s payload, 16 kHz sampling rate
- G.726:16, 24, 32 or 40 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
- GSM:13 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
- iLBC:13.3 or 15.2 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
- Speexnarrow band: 15 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
- Speex wide band: 30 kbit/s payload, 16 kHz sampling rate
- Opus:10-50 kbit/s, up to 48 kHz sampling rate
- G.729:8 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
- Linear PCM:705 kbit/s payload, 44.1 kHz sampling rate
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Phoner history
- ^ab"Phoner download".phoner.de.Retrieved2022-02-19.
- ^"PhonerLite: download".lite.phoner.de.Retrieved2022-02-19.
- ^"PhonerLite: features".lite.phoner.de.Retrieved2021-04-23.
- Hommer, Michael B. (March 2007)."Soft phone, hard benefits".Network World Canada.23(7).
- Zhang, Hongguang; Boutabia, Mohammed; Nguyen, Hang; Crespi, Noël; Pang, Ai-Chun; Zhou, Liang; Wei, Jianming (February 2012)."Mobile WiMAX field trial test through multimedia performance evaluation"(PDF).EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.2012(53).doi:10.1186/1687-1499-2012-53.S2CID256245174.
- Dove, Jackie (June 22, 2022)."The best apps for a second smartphone number".Digital Trends.Digital Trends Media Group.Retrieved2023-07-05.
- Eric, Griffith (August 16, 2022)."How to Get a Secret Phone Number (and Why You Need One)".PCMag.Ziff Davis.Retrieved2023-07-05.