Voip viber windows phone

IPCams Free. InstarVision Free. IP Address Free. WiFi Dashboard Free. Files sharing between computers Free. Instant Housecall Remote Support Free. What's new in this version 1. Additional information Published by Finarea. Published by Finarea. Developed by Finarea. Approximate size 3. Age rating For ages 13 and up. Category Social. This app can Use your microphone Access your Internet connection Access your home or work networks Microsoft.

Permissions info. The voice data is compressed and divided into small blocks that are sent over the internet to your friend on the other side of the internet. In the days before VoIP, closed networks used a different transmission technology called circuit switching. The circuit switching transmission mechanism required a dedicated channel and was both less flexible and available for usage. VoIP has completely transformed the ways in which we stay in touch with one another.

Gone are the days where you had to find a pay phone or purchase a calling card in order to make a phone call. Giving you the same messaging system and ID on your phone, tablet, and PC means Viber is in effect a cross-platform version of iMessage, which is restricted to Apple devices. It doesn't, however, replace Apple FaceTime or Skype's similar video capabilities.

Let's take the app for a spin and see how well Viber works at what it can do. It works on both Windows 8. The first thing you see after installation is the message bar asking you to allow the app access to your webcam and microphone—fair enough, for a communication app. Next, you're asked if you have Viber on your mobile phone. If the answer is No, you're told that you must have the app installed on your smart phone.

Like WhatsApp, Viber is one of those services that require your actual phone number and uses that as your identifier. There are two concerns with this: you're giving out a private personal detail that links to your financial, personal, and contact data to a startup tech company and any Viber contacts can see your real number.

It also means you'll have to create a new Viber account if you get a new phone number. With Kik, Skype, or Facebook Messenger, you simply use your account username, avoiding those pitfalls. On the plus side, the real phone-number approach does make account setup easy, and it means the app can find contacts on the phone.

But Skype and the other mobile communication apps I've used can also find your local phone's contacts, so that's not much of a differentiator. Since Windows 8. Once that's taken care of, you simply enter your phone number into the Windows 8 app. The installation process sends a four-digit message to the phone, which you enter in to the Windows 8 app setup.

But the permission granting isn't done: you next have to agree to let Viber run in the background. Interface The Viber app makes good use of many Windows 8-unique features: live tiles, lock screen notifications, pinning specific conversations to the Start screen, the search and share charms. Its main interface even looks a lot like the Windows 8 default People app and like the official Skype app, with tiles representing your contacts, and swiping to take you through the various sections, including Recent, Contacts, and Groups.

It's actually a pleasing, simple, straightforward interface: Just three buttons sit on its right edge: Compose, Keypad, and a Share Viber Facebook button. When you send a message, first a clock icon appears below it, then a double check mark.