Canadian Company to Unveil a Nicer Softphone

After today, the Vancouver-based company will be known as the developer of the brand spanking new Glopex Broadband Internet phone. The device, announced today, is a soft phone that will allow road warriors to make and receive phone calls using the Internet at any wireless hot spot location including airports, aboard planes, and coffee shops.

Nicer Canada describes the new phone as a networking device with a phone-like user interface featuring a microphone, numeric keypad and displays. The Glopex soft phone also offers more PDA-like features such as direct dialing with address books and the capacity to store contact lists.

Additionally, the company says its device employs firewall bypass capability while not breaching security, in order to enable users to make and receive calls with better security on any network without having to reconfigure any firewall setting. Glopex�s phone service transforms all out-of-town and out-of-country calls into local calls by using one of the company�s domestic or international virtual numbers.

The preview release, scheduled for next week in Hanover, Germany at an industry event, featuring Nicer's VoIP sofphone, follows the company�s beta testing and field trials with select corporate customers.

Nicer Canada Corporation

www.nicertech.com

Johanne Torres is contributing editor for TMCnet.com and Internet Telephony magazine. Previously, she was assistant editor for EContent magazine in Connecticut. She can be reached by e-mail at [email protected]