If you’ve got a Mac and an Asterisk-based phone system, I highly recommend you check out Telephone, an open source OS X “softphone” with the following design philosophy:
I don’t know why they think you should like a mobile phone interface on your computer.
Which is, I assume, a shot over the bow of softphones like X-Lite. And, true to those words, here’s the simple UI:
I’ve been trying Telephone out for a few days on long conference calls. Other than not being able to figure out “flash the switch hook” to be able to transfer calls (it’s a feature request), it’s performed flawlessly, and has enabled me to switch away from Skype to live the headset dream.
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Thanks for the post! This app
Thanks for the post! This app is sweet! It is so dang stable compared to all the other options out there - i/c xlite, isoftphone, etc……. Love listening to itunes and it muting when a call comes in, and then starting up again on completion! Needs to change the name of the app so more search hits would catch it - maybe i-tel? Thanks again - if not for your post - i would have missed it.
Recent versions of Telephone
Recent versions of Telephone include “Transfer” capabilities: just press “T” during a call.
I am having trouble with
I am having trouble with transfer… any suggestions?
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