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Gizmo5 (formerly known as Gizmo Project) users to communicate with other Gizmo5 users or landlines/cellphones over the Internet.  Unlike Skype, Gizmo uses SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) which makes it compatible with other SIP-based software and hardware.

A java-based version is also available for mobile phones.

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Free when calling other Gizmo5 users
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Spotty quality. Sometimes people can here me, other times they can't.
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This report was started June 3, 2008 at 4:59 pm by rabidpotatochip
with the last edit occurring October 26, 2009 at 3:48 pm by nushoes
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1.  avatar jscottu said:

I am using Gizmo5 on my grandstream handytone 286 ATA device. I have the $35/yr call in and we call out to Korea and Japan. My mother calls me free from Dallas. using a free access line.
Gizmo is great. Only reason I also need a more full-featured service is that I make a lot of local calls and my wife wants call waiting. So we also have Voice Pulse. The combination of the two services is very reliable and very cheap.
Oct 12, 2008 10:10am
2.  avatar anthonybennis said:

Terrible customer service. I could not make calls due to a SDP is Null error, and they refused to refund me my $10. The replies from their support team were curt and showed a blatant disregard for their customers. Skypes is 1000 times better.
Jun 02, 2009 10:21am
3.  avatar StreetGuru said:

This was the worst on-line shopping experience I've ever had till date. I bought a $35 DID number with Gizmo5 through google checkout. There was a delay of almost 24h until the number finally show up on my gizmo account page and when it finally does, it doesn't work at all. There is no customer support number for gizmo5 or any direct email addresses - the only contact platform with the company is through an online form on the website. After contacted they tell me that they acquire this numbers from different vendors and were contacting the one in question to find out what the problem was. One day later i am told that the number was erroneously posted as available on the website but that they would offer me a replacement. I accepted their proposed number but after that I hear nothing else from them until 3 days later - in spite of my repeated attempts to contact the company - when they tell me that the replacement number is no longer available!!! They then offer me yet a different replacement number, this time from a completely different area code and far inferior to the one purchased initially - and on the condition of having to pay an additional 100% of what i had already originally paid. I have since been writhing to them demanding either an equivalent replacement number or a refund and have no answer at all. In the meanwhile the original number was taken out of my account page and no refund offered. This people are a very bad joke, stay well back!!
Jun 02, 2009 10:21am
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"Terrible customer service. I could not make calls due to a SDP is Null error, and they refused to refund me my $10. The replies from their support team were curt and showed a blatant disregard for their customers. Skypes is 1000 times better."
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"This was the worst on-line shopping experience I've ever had till date. I bought a $35 DID number with Gizmo5 through google checkout. There was a delay of almost 24h until the number finally show up on my gizmo account page and when it finally does, it doesn't work at all. There is no customer support number for gizmo5 or any direct email addresses - the only contact platform with the company is through an online form on the website. After contacted they tell me that they acquire this numbers from different vendors and were contacting the one in question to find out what the problem was. One day later i am told that the number was erroneously posted as available on the website but that they would offer me a replacement. I accepted their proposed number but after that I hear nothing else from them until 3 days later - in spite of my repeated attempts to contact the company - when they tell me that the replacement number is no longer available!!! They then offer me yet a different replacement number, this time from a completely different area code and far inferior to the one purchased initially - and on the condition of having to pay an additional 100% of what i had already originally paid. I have since been writhing to them demanding either an equivalent replacement number or a refund and have no answer at all. In the meanwhile the original number was taken out of my account page and no refund offered. This people are a very bad joke, stay well back!!"
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  • Spotty quality. Sometimes people can here me, other times they can't.

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