{"id":522,"date":"2007-02-05T10:47:51","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T08:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/2007\/02\/05\/a-new-alternative-to-skype\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:59:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:59:30","slug":"a-new-alternative-to-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/a-new-alternative-to-skype\/","title":{"rendered":"A new alternative to Skype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"king-logos.png\" id=\"image521\" title=\"king-logos.png\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/02\/king-logos.png\" \/>We all know that <a href=\"http:\/\/skype.en.softonic.com\/ie\/29287\">Skype<\/a> provides a great way to make calls across the world for next to nothing, and it\u2019s merits as a communications tool are clear to see. I\u2019ve always been a big fan of the app but am becoming increasingly wary of the amount of bandwidth it hogs, even when it\u2019s just running in the background. It\u2019s still a slick program but it\u2019s starting to become a little too swamped with features for those who literally just want to make calls and don\u2019t need access to chatrooms, file transfer and the like.<\/p>\n<p>Step in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gizmocall.com\">Gizmo Call<\/a>, a new Web 2.0 program that offers a very simple way to call anywhere in the world for free. Amazingly it\u2019s as easy as typing a phone number onto the Gizmo Call home page and hitting \u2018Call\u2019. You can even create a \u2018Call Me\u2019 link and insert it into a web page or send it via email so others can ring you for nothing.<\/p>\n<p>As for the drawbacks, you need to download a plug-in in order to use the service and, more importantly, you\u2019re limited to a maximum free call length of ten minutes per day, after which you\u2019ll almost certainly be reaching for that \u2018S\u2019 icon again. Nevertheless, Gizmo Call represents an interesting new model in the Internet telecoms sphere and once the service has been refined a little we can expect to see clones springing up everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that Skype provides a great way to make calls across the world for next to nothing, and it\u2019s merits as a communications tool are clear to see. I\u2019ve always been a big fan of the app but am becoming increasingly wary of the amount of bandwidth it hogs, even when it\u2019s just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/a-new-alternative-to-skype\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A new alternative to Skype&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2559],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionskype"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337929,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/337929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}