Whether your colleagues or business contacts work around the corner or across the country, use audio and video conferencing to stay in touch Comprehensive contact list support, including detailed calls lists and history Open Standards and Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) based call signaling allows X-Lite to work with a wide number of networks Supports instant messaging and presence using SIP SIMPLE Supports basic voice and video calling in standard-definition Please note that X-Lite does not come with a voice, video or messaging service – you must pair it with a VoIP service or IP PBX in order to make calls or send messages.
X-Lite is designed for you to try out some of the feature-rich capabilities available in our award-winning Bria softphone.
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Whether you're having a simple voice conversation with a business associate, or an in-depth discussion with a colleague over video, you’ll soon see why having a SIP softphone on your desktop or laptop is the ultimate communications experience for Windows PC or Mac.
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With X-Lite, try out some of the best and most popular software features of our fully-loaded Bria desktop client, including voice and video calls (standard definition only), messaging and presence. Combining voice and video calls in a user-friendly interface, CounterPath's X-Lite helps you seamlessly transition from a traditional phone environment into the world of Voice over IP. This entry was posted in Usability by gerv. Even closing the window using the X saves the settings.īut the most amusing thing is that their website puts in the feature list: There’s no way of cancelling a settings change once you’ve made it if you click BACK, your settings are saved anyway. This turns a one-click operation into a four-click, two-screen one. For boolean items, instead of checkboxes, it takes you to an entirely new screen where you have to select either Yes or No from a two item list, press Enter to move the tick, and then click Back. Trying to edit your settings is equally miserable. Perhaps we should be grateful that they’ve provided one at all. The only window resize point is in the bottom right corner, although there are no visible clues to tell you this. Double-clicking it doesn’t close the window. The little icon in the top left of the “title bar”, which produces a menu on normal windows, does absolutely nothing. Er, excuse me, I was using that browser window? The ? in the title bar, which usually indicates local or context-sensitive help, actually hijacks your web browser and brings up an X-Lite web page.
The SELECT button appears to do nothing at all. The larger arrows don’t scroll the viewport, they move the selection, and the viewport only scrolls when the selection reaches the top or bottom. Clicking it or those two little black arrows does nothing. See that widget on the left (note: not the right, where everyone else puts it)? It’s not really a scroll bar. In fact, this static PNG gives you a good idea of the user experience as well as the look, because their custom controls don’t react in any way to being moused over. Instead, the image to the right is a screenshot of their configuration dialog, which is the first thing you are presented with when starting the app.
However, I’m not going to focus on their main UI (image link), because the flaws in that are obvious for all to see. However, having just come across X-Lite, a SIP Softphone, I feel a rant coming on. The folly of designing computer programs to look like real-world objects is well documented.
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