The growth of Web real-time communications (WebRTC) has produced quite a bit so far, and while there's still quite a bit of room to grow yet in terms of getting more commercial projects out around the platform, there are also many products and companies making WebRTC known. Movirtu is one such firm looking to bring out viable commercial product around WebRTC, and its new CloudPhone platform is out to offer a powerful new communications tool for mobile users with tablets and laptops.
With Movirtu's CloudPhone, users can essentially take a tablet or a laptop and make it into what amounts to a virtual smartphone, letting users connect to Wi-Fi connections via these devices and place calls, using a currently existing mobile phone number. CloudPhone accomplishes this by, instead of using SIM cards, using what's called Virtual SIMs to do the job. Virtual SIMs have been seen before—usually to activate multiple phone numbers on one SIM card—but in this case, it's used to activate something similar within the platform itself. When used, a PIN code is sent to a mobile phone by means of SMS transmission, then the code is entered into a client itself, allowing the tablet or laptop to work in much the same fashion as a regular smartphone. Better yet, the resulting communications—even phone calls—are given a measure of encryption to protect the user...Read More
Edited by Rachel Ramsey
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