SJPhone
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SJphone (currently at version 1.65) is a VOIP softphone from SJ Labs that allows people to call other people using SIP and PSTN and also supports the H323 protocol and ISTP, It is also known as the official TalkShoe supported VOIP client, unofficially known as being "The noob's softphone", SJPhone is configured to connect to a STUN server to allow you to use SIP without any effort whatsoever (known as PC to PC (SIP)), but you cannot dial ordinary telephone numbers with the default configuration. You'll have to configure SJPhone to support your provider, which is a little harder then X-Lite. SJPhone is also skinnable using an XML interface and can be customized with 3 skins. Standard, Advanced and Classic (which has no skin at all). SJPhone also has the ability to keep the numbers in a speed dial tab, and can also export Microsoft Outlook contacts which has phone information readily available. SJPhone also supports hot keys which allow for instantaneous action of the command given.
[edit] Usage within TalkShoe
In its early days, SIP usage was still an unsupported feature and TalkShoe supported SJPhone as its official VOIP client at the time. They referred it to people who wanted to use it as a way to connect using SIP rather than via landline. Lots of people used this client in the early days to avoid paying for the long-distance charges they would get if they were to call in via landline. Though the early-to-mid timeframe of 2007. SJPhone was possibly the most used VOIP client on TalkShoe until X-Lite and Voxalot came along, X-Lite proved superior because of its better framework, and was pushed on TalkShoe users by people who have used X-Lite to satisfaction. In mid 2007, ShoePhone went into a public beta and quickly drained its SJPhone userbase with it being built into TalkShoe Live!. Many users turned to X-Lite as an alternative to using the ShoePhone. Today, a few people use SJPhone though its user base is shrinking by the second. But it remains the VOIP client that's easy-to-use.
