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Lets talk Smart TV’s now!

Ever imagined the aura of Video Conferences with your family and friends on a big screen? and that too from within the comfort of your living room?

Now you can!

Taking a step ahead from Smartphones, FriendCaller marks its flag on Android TV.

Apart from Watching Live Shows, News, Sport, Business and Entertainment TV Channels, you can now make Voice calls as well as LIVE Group Video chats with cross-platform group members on your Android TV. All within the coziness of your living room!

When are you trying your first call on big screen then?

From Showstoppers @ MWC 2012 – C2Call GmbH, developer of FriendCaller, the world’s first app to support mobile video chat across Apple iOS devices including iPhone®, iPod Touch® and iPad™,Android™-based smart phones and tablets, and the FriendCaller WebPhone, will be demonstrating these unique capabilities here on Sunday, Feb. 26 at Showstoppers 2012, during Mobile World Congress

“FriendCaller is widely-known for pushing the envelope in leveraging cloud technology to support all-in-one voice calling and videoconferencing,” said Martin Feuerhahn, CEO of FriendCaller developer C2Call GmbH. “Now, with FriendCaller mobile group video chat available via Wi-Fi, 3G or even 4G networks, whether it is from an Internet cafe in Paris, or their office in Bangalore, users can video chat with a large number of friends or family members back home, or across the globe.”

In addition to Mobile Group Video Chat, FriendCaller provides users with a number of innovative and unique features including Text Messaging (SMS), Browser-based WebPhone, Caller-ID, CallMe-Links, video calling and a real phone number. FriendCaller is currently available via the iTunes App Store, Android Market and the FriendCaller.com website.

About C2Call

C2Call is the first company to offer free cloud hosted video and voice calls without the need to download software. C2Call’s FriendCaller is the first free multi-point video calling app that works across all desktop browsers and smart phone platforms.

For more information visit http://www.FriendCaller.com.

Apple, iPhone and iPod Touch are registered trademarks, iPad is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the US and other countries. Android is a trademark of Google, Inc.

Source: http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/

On Sunday 26 2012, The CEO of FriendCaller, Martin Feuerhahn, presented demo of FriendCaller at the ShowStoppers, Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. Reporters and journalists from all around the world came and enjoyed FriendCaller display area where Martin along with his team member, Raphael Schrader, presented a remarkable demo of Cross–platform, LIVE Real Group Video Calling over three platforms: Android, iOS (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad) and WebPhone.

CEO, Martin Feuerhahn with FriendCaller demo at ShowStopper 2012

Fascinated, might as well as been the theme of the evening – on the surface, FriendCaller got a galactic response from people all around the world who attended the event.

Journalists, News TV reporters, Developers, Consumers and Investing teams marveled at the sensational display of LIVE Group Video Calling between 7 video and 13 audio participants. You usually don’t hear it often, right?  The Group Conferencing on iOS platforms maintained its excellence and kept the spectators glued. A Great team work made this an amazing success!

Raphael Schrader presenting Cross-platform Group Video Calling demo

Looks like FriendCaller is slowly conquering all! For more catch-up with the events and LIVE demos, stay tuned!

FriendCaller has always been about a more rich mobile communication experience and we pioneered VoIP on the iPhone back in 2009 and have never stopped innovating since then. Our last addition to our All-In-One communication suite was Group Video Chat across iOS, Android devices, and all the popular desktop Internet browsers out there. Furthermore our mobile Group Video Chat is cutting edge; you can see all 4 Video call participants simultaneously on your mobile screen and 6 more can join the chat through a voice call.

We proudly call this ‘Real Cross-platform Mobile Group Video Calling’, because no one else delivers anything close to it. 8-)

Worth a mention, the video conferencing feature was very well received as you can see the download graph at left. Downloads are sky rocking! So, what’s next? More audio and video participants in a FriendCaller Group Call?

Sure, why not? In fact, we will demo this during the Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona with a group call of 7 video and 10 voice participants. Yes we can!

But there is still a huge wish list from our customers and developers, and we looked into several ones of which one do sticks out! Rich Media Messaging.

FriendCaller at the moment already offers so much more than just voice calls and SMS. So the addition of Rich Media Messaging will definitely make our Rich Communication suite complete. This said, you can expect some announcements next month, regarding Rich Media Messaging.

By the way what does Rich Media Messaging refers to? Well, instead of sending and receiving plain old texts (SMS) messages, you will now be able to record or send media from the phone gallery; like pictures, videos, animations, links, location information, calendar entries, etc. You can even record a greeting and send it as a voice message, instead of recording one on the old carrier provided answering machine.

For FriendCaller, we expect to roll out this exciting Rich Media Messaging feature for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and definitely to over 1022 different Android phones and tablet models (which we already support). Not  to forget where we started out a few years ago: just a WebPhone in a desktop Internet browser.

By the way, while Michael was away on his lunch break, I took a peek into his developer phone and found that its not going to be long enough to see this exciting feature boarding our list of superb features.

Stay tuned!

To all our Lovely Fans! Finally the wait is over!!

The availability of your most favorited FriendCaller app has been reached to 1022 Android devices ! Thank you all for an overwhelming response in the Hit and Trial Contest. Your participation is truly valued.

By the way, Mr. Sam Chee won 1000 Free Calling minutes and 1000 Texts/SMS in our contest of guessing the correct date (today), on which we hit the 1000 Android device support count.

Heartiest Congratulations from FriendCaller  Sam Chee :-)