Mobile VoIP Comes To Blackberry Devices

If there was one app I desperately wanted on my T-Mobile Blackberry Bold, it would be a good Mobile VoIP client that allowed me to make and receive calls over WiFi and 3G connections. It would have been even better if that client was made by Skype. Unfortunately, that hasn’t been the case.

In fact, there hasn’t been a native mobile VoIP application for the Blackberry platform. Instead, we have apps that use either callback or local access number over the cellular networks. The other three major smartphone platforms — iPhone OS, Android and Symbian –have multiple Mobile VoIP applications including Nimbuzz and Truphone.

Nearly 100 million are expected to be using Mobile VoIP by 2012. And with over 471 billion calls like to be made via Mobile VoIP by 2015, it seems Blackberry has been missing out on the party. But that changes today. TringMe, an Indian VoIP startup based in Bangalore has introduced a new VoIP application for Blackberry OS (works with Blackberry OS versions 4.2 to 5.0) that can make calls over WiFi. It allows for single click worldwide conferencing facility and when there is no WiFi, it can switch to the local-access number/callback over cellular network.