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Free Movie Calling: six Enterprise Options
Today’s work environment is very interactive. Employees are often expected to be accessible via numerous channels, including email, phone, social media, text message, and movie. With advances in technology such as WebRTC, movie calling is now lightly available and affordable. Most laptops and mobile devices are now tooled with high-quality webcams, so users can make and receive movie calls at any time, from any location.
There is a broad multiplicity of options for organizations looking to use movie calling on PCs, smartphones, and web browsers. The breadth of choices is good news for individuals and businesses alike. Here are six popular services that suggest free movie calling.
AnyMeeting
AnyMeeting has a free movie calling service that that’s supported by ads. AnyMeeting offers private meeting URLs, screen sharing, phone and VoIP audio, and text talk. It also has sturdy integrations with Google, Evernote, and Facebook. There are no downloads needed to engage in an AnyMeeting movie call – it’s a web-based software app that runs via an Internet browser.
AnyMeeting has paid account upgrades that give users extra features and eliminate the ads. These upgrades include file sharing, meeting recording, in-session note taking, and PSTN audio. The product review site Revuezzle.com gave AnyMeeting a flawless Ten/Ten for features.
The OnSIP App
The OnSIP app is a webphone that comes with free movie calling. The app offers private meeting URLs, free Internet voice calls, and a Slack messaging integration, along with business phone features such a extension dialing, call hold, call transfer, and phone presence. The app supports one-to-one movie calls on Chrome and Firefox.
The OnSIP app runs directly from the browser, and requires no downloads. Users can access the app for free by signing up for the OnSIP Free Plan. Or, businesses can sign up or upgrade to a paid plan for a finish business phone system replacement and use the OnSIP app as a deskphone alternative.
The OnSIP app’s movie quality is powered by VP8 and H.264 codecs. Stephen Shunk, IT Specialist at Level Agency, had this to say about the app:
"I instantly was attracted to its easy-to-use interface. One of my beloved OnSIP features is the capability to have a desk phone, web app, and smartphone app open at the same time — and have OnSIP ring me wherever I am at any given moment during the working day."
Skype
Skype movie calls can be made on Windows, Android, iOS, Mac, and Skype for Web. There’s also a standalone meeting app called Skype Meetings that concentrates entirely on voice and movie group talks. Movie talks can be collective via invite links through Skype for Web. You can use talk directives, including add and find, along with roles during the call. There’s also a screen sharing feature.
You can send photos and files to people during movie talks. Upgrading to Office three hundred sixty five permits for meeting recording, instant message, and talks with up to two hundred fifty people.
Benoit Pepicq of AndroidPit.com recently reviewed the lastest version of Skype, and had this to say:
"Regarding audio and movie calls, I can say from practice that the quality is very satisfactory. Again, it all depends on the device used and the quality of the connection, but overall it’s very fluid on the audio front, slightly less with movie but it also depends on the camera quality."
Google Hangouts
With Google Hangouts, call invites are sent using an email address, phone number, or saved contact name. You can also send standalone web links as invites. Invitees do not need a Google account to engage in a Hangouts movie call. The main dashboard can be accessed through Google+ and Gmail.
Google Hangouts is available for Android, iOS, and the Chrome web browser. Hangouts broadcasts movie quality inbetween 360p (SD) up to 720p (HD), a slightly lower quality than the average YouTube movie. According to Max Eddy at PC Magazine, "The movie was not of stellar quality, but it was more than adequate."
Max also went on to say:
"I love the fresh interface, resurrection of a traditional contacts list, and how the app touches so many different forms of communication. It truly does it all, without you needing to sign up for yet another messaging service. Best of all, it lets you reach other people without them signing up for another service."
ooVoo
ooVoo runs on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android. It can also be used through Facebook. ooVoo comes with the capability to send texts and pictures. The app does come with ads; users have to upgrade to ooVoo Premium to get rid of them. A major bonus of ooVoo is that calls can be recorded for free.
According to TopTenReviews, "ooVoo conferencing instruments feature a proprietary technology called SuperClear Movie, boasting a better movie quality by adjusting for poor connections and low-bandwidth." ooVoo boasts one hundred fifty million registered users, with 100,000 more added each day. Its central audience is millennials – 65% of users are under the age of 25.
Free Conference Call
FreeConferenceCall.com has a bevy of features, including screensharing, live rewind, call movie recording, annotation devices, talk, and others. The service runs on iOS, Android, and via the web. Free Conference Call for Business comes with extra features. From Gene Marks of Forbes:
"The [business service] will suggest secure and high-quality HD audio and movie conference calls with 99.99% reliability, white-label corporate branding with a personalized audio saluting, hold music and messaging, and PBX integration. And something else that many of us using the free service aren’t used to: live 24/7 customer support and training."
Free, But At What Cost?
There are slew of services that suggest free movie calling. Just about all the services listed in this post can be implemented on a professional B2B basis, with many suggesting enterprise grade features after upgrades. It all depends where you draw the line.
Do you need movie call recording? Do you want to connect your business phone system to your movie calling software? These are questions that only you can response based on your needs. But when it comes to movie calling, you know you have slew of very first rate options, free and paid alike.