Cool VOIP app

Having used many VOIP apps on macs, iPhones, and iPads, I found Whistle refreshing in its simple UI approach and good audio quality. The 3-way and 2-line features are both real assets as well. The 20-sec ads are a bit annoying, but seem a small price to pay for high-quality free VOIP.

Some aspects of their system need further debugging, though. For example, if I share the same account between my iPad, laptop, and destop, Id expect an incoming call to ring all three (and respond to the one I answered). No such luck: it picks one of the devices, seemingly at random (which is to say, I cant figure out the basis for its choice after several experiments). This means I cant use a single incoming number to reach me on whatever machine Im using, a serious drawback. Moreover, their "follow me" (extra cost) option seems a poor substitute, as it redirects to a list of different numbers in sequence, rather than making a single number access multiple devices simultaneously. Whistler could score big if they did this right, perhaps becoming the mobile VOIP standard. I hope they do. Failing that, I hope someone else does…

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