Bria Mobile: VoIP Softphone

CounterPath Corp

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About this app

Android Softphone App for VoIP and SIP voice and video calls, instant messaging and more!

Stay connected wherever you go, leveraging your call server or VoIP service. Includes HD audio and video support, along with XMPP & SIP SIMPLE support.

Bria Mobile is an award-winning softphone that increases your business productivity by streamlining business communication across mobile devices and teams. Whether you are a small start-up or a global enterprise, take the power of this award-winning softphone with you – at work, at home or anywhere in-between to ensure you stay connected and more productive.

Technical Features Highlights:
• Thoughtfully innovated, with over 10 years of technology development, Bria Mobile is available on a monthly subscription, which includes ongoing updates, Bria Push Service (for enhanced battery life), high definition video calling, G.729 and other Wideband Codecs (previously paid add-ons).
• Highly secure, SIP-based softphone with exceptional voice quality
• Pre-defined VoIP provider list available when adding new accounts
• Multi-tasking support for background operation, such as fielding incoming calls while using other applications
• HD Audio Codecs including G.722, Opus and SILK
• Video in 720p HD when using H.264 or VP8 on supported devices
• Supported accessories include headsets, headphone, as well as other BluetoothTM devices
• Available English, Chinese, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, German and Spanish
• IPv4 and IPv6 support, including NAT64

For More information on Bria Mobile for Android features, please visit:
https://www.counterpath.com/bria-classic/

IMPORTANT NOTE
Bria Mobile is a standalone softphone subscription and not a VoIP service. A SIP server or subscription with a SIP-based VoIP provider is required to make calls. See https://www.counterpath.com/partners to see some of the many providers that support Bria Mobile.

IMPORTANT VOIP OVER MOBILE/CELLULAR DATA NOTICE
Some mobile network operators may prohibit or restrict the use of VoIP functionality over their network and may also impose additional fees, or other charges in connection with VoIP. You agree to learn and abide by your cellular carrier's network restrictions. CounterPath Corporation will not be held liable for any charges, fees or liability imposed by your carrier for use of VoIP over Mobile/Cellular Data.

EMERGENCY CALLS
CounterPath's Bria mobile products provide handling designed to redirect emergency calls to the Native Cellular Dialer when possible on a best reasonable commercial efforts basis, however this functionality is also dependent on the operating system of the mobile phone which is outside of our control and subject to change at any time. As a result, the official position of CounterPath is that CounterPath’s Bria product is not intended, designed, or fit for placing, carrying or supporting Emergency Calls. CounterPath will not be liable for any costs or damages arising either directly or indirectly from the use of the software for Emergency Calls.

Ratings and reviews

Pretty worthless to me. Counterpath used to be my go to for the soft phone scene. Now they have jumped on the subscription bandwagon. I purchased the mobile soft phone and the pay extra codec's and used it a lot. It was absent from my device for about a year. I go to reinstall and this is all i can find, and you have to pay as you go (so that is money i wasted, i think the app was like $10 and the codec was another $10). I am so tired of subscriptions, i had about 30 of them at one point and am slowly getting rid of them. Give me an application i can pay for up from, fine $20 or $30 for a lifetime of upgrades, without the issues if my credit card expires or whatnot having to manage yet another subscription monthly or yearly. They are doing the same for desktop soft phones, I own Bria 5, but on their site it is "legacy", anything new is again pay as you go. Sigh, time to find a new soft phone, but i am just one customer so my issues are not important.

I do really appreciate this app and can absolutely justify the cost. However, It is frustrating that when you select to call record, it omits a large beeping noise for the person on the other end and still happens if you select to record every call in the settings. It causes confusion every single time without fail. Also, I work from home with reliable internet connection, yet too often I am notified by my work that I have missed a call, but the app did not ring even if I have the app open.

When Bria first came out with push, it worked really well. I don't know what changed, but the service seems to have gone downhill. Maybe they're over-capacity. I tried to adjust settings on the push side. I tried each of the four push types. I tried increasing the push refresh interval. It didn't help. I was missing a lot of calls. The weirdest part is that after the call was missed, I would immediately get the missed call alert. So, something was working, but not the way it should've been working. I started trying other VoIP clients and found Acrobits. The push service there works like Bria's initially did. My phone calls come through! I am also impressed by how well it integrates with the built-in Android dialer. It is a lot more seamless that way.

What's new

Bria Mobile [phone]

Audio device handling improvement.