Android App Developers Can Now Tap GIPS VoiceEngine Mobile to Build VoIP-Infused Clients

Global IP Solutions, or “GIPS,” a San Francisco-based provider of IP multimedia processing solutions, reportedly announced that Android (News - Alert) mobile application developers can now start building first-rate VoIP-enabled clients with its high-definition voice solution, called VoiceEngine Mobile.

 

Nimbuzz, a company named for its free mobile social messaging application, will be GIPS’ first customer to deploy the VoiceEngine Mobile application on Android mobile phones.

 

According to GIPS, the VoiceEngine Mobile is part of the company’s VoiceEngine family, which encompasses packaged solutions that handle all the necessary voice processing tasks for IP networks, thereby offering high-quality voice even under adverse network conditions.

 

GIPS’ VoiceEngine family gives application developers, service providers as well as hardware manufacturers the ability to easily build complex voice processing technologies into their solutions, without perturbing about the effects of delay, jitter, packet loss, background noise and echo.

 

The VoiceEngine Mobile provides additional advanced VoIP capabilities to mobile applications: It not only handles complex voice processing on smartphones, dual-mode phones and PDAs, but it also helps applications to overcome limitations that are inherent to mobile VoIP, such as extreme packet loss on WiFi networks and excessive background noise and echo in mobile environments. It supports Symbian, Windows Mobile, OSE and iPhone (News - Alert).

 

According to Roar Hagen, CTO at GIPS, the company’s VoiceEngine now allows Android developers to build VoIP-enabled applications, which provide high-definition voice. Plus, it can also tackle all the typical IP network issues, including delay, jitter, and bandwidth constraints, in addition to packet loss, noise and echo.

 

“Today, mobile users desire a smartphone that offers a unique experience, which includes the ability to have great quality communication,” Hagen said. “With GIPS engineering expertise, developers can quickly and effectively build their applications enabling them to concentrate on their core business. We’re thrilled that Nimbuzz will be GIPS’ first customer to deploy their application on Android mobile phones. Nimbuzz continues to offer their users a distinctive unified social messaging application that connects popular social and instant messenger networks into one simple, user-friendly offering.”

 

Evert-Jaap Lugt, CEO of Nimbuzz, said in a press release: “Nimbuzz is delighted to offer free mobile VoIP calls to Android users. VoIP is fast becoming established as a mainstream standard for voice calling and will represent a major part of the mobile eco system of the future. With the addition of high-quality HD Voice to our free IM and chat functions, thousands of new and existing Nimbuzz users on Android will now be able to enjoy a complete communications and messaging service in one.”

 

According to Gartner (News - Alert), a research firm, Android will become the second most popular smartphone by 2012 with 14.5 percent market share and iPhone with 13.7 percent market share.