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Media5 Corp. has announced that the company will run a limited public beta testing in advance of its highly anticipated general release in August of its mobile softphone application Media5-fone for Android (News - Alert).

For the mobile world, the Media5-fone for Android expands the company's diverse suite of tools and services. Thanks to the public beta release, testers will use the new mobile softphone and provide feedback directly to Media5 helping to create a final product which offers customers a powerful, seamless mobile experience.

This limited beta program will give the company an ideal opportunity to gather feedback from participants on their user experience using a wide variety of Android devices, said Pascal Dore, manager for Mobility Product Line at Media5.

A softphone application, Media5-fone runs on Android v2.1 and higher smartphones. Since it’s a SIP Client -- softphone -- users can make and receive VoIP calls over a Wi-Fi or 3G connection using the IP technology of the Media5-fone. Company officials said that users can use their Android smartphone as an IP-PBX (News - Alert) phone extension in their office environment or anywhere else in the world.

“With over 500,000 new Android activations per day, we continue to see unprecedented demand for an Android version of our Media5-fone from our enterprise and service provider clients and the market at large,” Dore said.

Dore said that the launch of the new Media5-fone for Android will be the latest step the company has taken to ensure that its solution aligns with the needs of the users.

Media5-fone already supports Apple devices, such as iPhone (News - Alert), iPod Touch, iPad, and will soon announce beta releases for PC and Blackberry smartphones.

The company has built upon the technologies of Mediatrix Telecom (News - Alert) and M5T to develop advanced, secure, and survivable VoIP products, technologies and services for service providers and enterprise networks.

Last month, Media5 released Mediatrix 500 Enterprise Session Border Controller (eSBC) Series for SIP Demarcation.