Free Gizmocalls
Posted on February 6, 2007
Filed Under N800, Services |
Gizmocall is offering 10 minutes worth of free calls per day. It also works to mobile numbers, I have tested DNA in finland and a prepaid in france.
Calls can be made directly from the webpage, but you’ll have to install a small plugin to make it work. I had a memory owerflow problem the first time I tried it (it ate all my memomy and fille up the pagefile), but after restarting firefox it worked flawlessly.
I wasn’t able to test these free gizmocalls from my N800, because it’s still in service, but hopefully it works when I get it back.
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Not only does it (gizmocall.com) not work on N800, it doesn’t even work on desktop Linux computers! It says it will work eventually, thanks to the Flash9 for Linux on x86, but without Flash9 on N800 I doubt it will ever work there.
The text that gizmocall.com displays to Linux users, promising support eventually, actually suggests buying an N800 (as there is a native gizmo project client for it). “Go Linux!”, they say. What a bunch of proprietary crap!
I mainly use Linux on PowerPC, and I don’t expect Gizmo or Adobe will ever deliver anything I can use on my computer, but the Nokia 770 makes gizmo useful enough that I actually paid for some minutes even though I hate that their non-free software won’t run on my primary computer. Running Linux on something other than x86 really reminds one how lame free-but-not-libre software is.
Gizmo Project has a download (posted February 2nd) for linux (RPM, DEB, binary tarball and lispire). So it should work, am I right?
Haven’t tried it, because i still use XP. I tried to make the switch a few years back and used linux for a good 6 months, but it was still a bit tedius, so I failed.
Maybe it’s time to give it a new try, with all those new fancy 3D desktop features and everything. Make the change, save on vista - or something.
I meant that the Gizmocall.com in-browser software doesn’t work in Linux (at all, currently, but will work on x86 soon supposedly). There is, and has been for some time, a Gizmo Project client available for Linux, but it currently won’t work on ARM computers (except Nokia’s), or on non-Intel-x86-compatible PCs. There are a lot of architectures (11+) supported by the Debian distribution of Linux. If Gizmo were open source, people could make it work on many of them.
it is a great site
I’ve never heard of Gizmocalls, but I’m glad I did. I don’t think I’d be able to use it, though, since usage seems very limited. Good to know nonetheless… I’m sure someone I know will make some use of their service!