By Telecom Lead Team: Research In Motion
(RIM) announced that the new BlackBerry PlayBook OS CounterPath Corporation announced it will release
the latest Bria Android Edition with video for smartphones and Bria Android
Tablet Edition with voice, earlier than previously scheduled. The softphone app
will be previewed at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain.
Bria Android Tablet Edition softphones are SIP-based
softphone applications specifically designed for the Android OS. They provide
an intuitive user interface for making and receiving VoIP calls on Android
smartphones and tablets, and in the case of smartphones, also video calls,
sending messages and managing presence all over a Wi-Fi or a 3G/4G wireless
connection. The applications will become commercially available mid-March.
The Bria app provides Android smartphone and tablet users
with a feature-rich application no matter where they go while still benefiting
from the multiple advantages of smartphone and tablet devices, creating a truly
mobile enterprise communications experience.
The softphone app allows you to talk and send messages
from your mobile softphone. Users can also take advantage of lower calling
rates offered by mobile VoIP service providers and benefit from the extended
productivity features of a mobile device.
The app integrates user’s native address book
automatically into the Bria softphone on their Android smartphone or tablet.
With Bria Android Edition for smartphones, they can also integrate Gmail,
Facebook or other contacts and chat with them all within Bria, eliminating the
need to jump back and forth among multiple applications.
Additionally, the Bria Android Edition (for smartphones)
also allows users to make video calls and collaborate more easily and
effectively from any location.
We are experiencing a shift in user behavior that
requires a similar user experience across disparate devices that enables
spontaneous voice, video and messaging conversations,” said Todd Carothers,
senior vice president of Marketing and Products, CounterPath. We call this device
shifting. Adding video calling to Android smartphones and extending support for
Android tablets is an important part of our strategy,” Carothers added.
At MWC, CounterPath will also showcase other solutions
based on its desktop, mobile and tablet applications that enable RCS-e and
over-the-top deployments.