CounterPath’s Bria softphone just went mobile

On June 15, 2010, CounterPath announced the launch of our Bria iPhone Edition app for the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. In celebration of this launch, we are offering special introductory pricing of just $3.99 USD.

Built with enterprise users in mind, Bria iPhone Edition enables enterprise-class security with call signaling and audio encryption via TLS and SRTP. This makes CounterPath’s mobile softphone a first of its kind. Bria iPhone Edition also integrates seamlessly with our Desktop softphone to not only extend the customer experience you have today to your mobile handset, but now serves as an extension to your PBX.

Bria iPhone Edition Features include:

• Full SIP compliance, enabling use with any SIP-compliant server.

• Call quality that’s superior to circuit-switched wireline and wireless voice, and based on the G.711, G.729 and GSM codecs.

• An intuitive user interface that provides one-touch access to voicemail, call history, speakerphone and other frequently used telephony features such as 4-digit dialing.

• Support for DTMF, which lets you enter numbers to access an auto attendant.

• Multi-call management options, including the ability to switch between, merge and split calls, all in ways that are already familiar to iPhone users so you can start using these features immediately.

Take the exceptional voice quality, security and usability of your Bria desktop to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch and make free and low-cost calls over your 3G or Wi-Fi network to anyone, anywhere.

Take advantage of limited-time introductory pricing of only $3.99 USD!

To learn more, visit our website or go to the iTunes Store to buy now!

Apple presents the new iPhone 4 with FaceTime, permitting video calling. The iPhone 4 features a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and HD video recording.

The 3.5 inch Retina display has 960 x 640 pixels resulting in sharper, smoother and more realistic text, images and video. The iPhone 4 is only 9.3mm thick, and the new 5 megapixel autofocus camera with a 5x digital zoom, backside illuminated sensor and built-in LED flash allows pictures even in low light environments. iPhone 4 also records and edits HD video and the tap to focus feature now works while recording video. You can use the iPhone 4‘s LED flash for both still photography and video recording. The new iMovie app for iPhone lets you combine movie clips, add dynamic transitions and themes and include photos and music.

iPhone 4 has access to apps on the App Store. Every iPhone 4 has a built-in 3-axis gyro that when combined with the accelerometer provides 6-axis motion sensing such as up and down, side to side, forward and backward and pitch and roll. Developers can access the gyro using the new CoreMotion API to make games and other apps.

iPhone 4 comes with iOS 4, the new version of the mobile operating system with over 100 new features including Multitasking, Folders, enhanced Mail, deeper Enterprise support and Apple’s new iAd mobile advertising platform. The new iBooks app will be available for iPhone 4 as a free download from the App Store and includes Apple’s new iBookstore. iBooks users can also now read and store PDFs in iBooks.

iPhone 4 delivers seven hours of talk time on 3G networks, up to 10 hours of web browsing on Wi-Fi and up to six hours on 3G, and up to 10 hours of video playback and up to 40 hours of audio playback. It 4 is powered by Apple’s new A4 processor and has a second microphone to suppress unwanted background noise for improved call quality when in loud places. Included is 802.11n Wi-Fi networking and quad-band HSUPA to provide 7.2Mbps downlink and 5.8Mbps uplink capability.

iPhone 4 will roll out worldwide to 88 countries by the end of September and will be available by the end of July in Australia, New Zealand, much of western Europe, Singapore and South Korea. www.apple.com