Wavigo is a P2P multi-protocol instant messaging and VoIP tool which integrates SMS messaging support, media player abilities, RSS feed access and podcasting support among a slew of other hot features.
Users of Wavigo can seamlessly link to Skype users for both instant messaging (IM) and voice calling and conferencing. This is in addition to Wavigos existing all-in-one instant messenger facility to simultaneously chat with YAHOO!, MSN, AOL and ICQ users.
Wavigo also provides SMS-text messaging, file transfers/sharing, news, sports, weather, stock feeds, an advanced internet and travel searching facility and a full featured multi-media player as service features.
Wavigos customizable information feeds include news, sports, and weather. Stock quotes with alerts can even be sent to Wavigo or to your phone via SMS-text messaging (consider also that Wavigos SMS feature can broadcast SMS messages to multiple recipients.)
A fully featured multi-media player with karaoke can be used to set up personal play lists to play music or video and podcasts are also directly supported. Wavigo users can in fact select, manage, and listen to their favorite podcasts. Wavigo's podcast management feature allows users to download or stream podcasts directly to Wavigo, and play them through Wavigo's built-in music and video media player.
To summarize, here are the key facilities Wavigo provides free to its users:
- Voice calling (free Wavigo-Wavigo calling)
- Instant Messengers (Yahoo, MSN, Skype, AOL, ICQ)
- SMS text messaging
- Email
- File transfer
- News, Weather, Stock quotes with alerts
- MediaPlayer with karaoke
- Podcast support
On the con side Wavigo provides a bridge to Skype only if you install a special additional module and if you have Skype running in the background while running Wavigo.
The advantage is the one of having one interface to access all of your IM contacts, including the Skype ones, from only one interface. The Wavigo SkypeBridge allows you also to conference and place voice calls to your Skype only contacts.
The Wavigo interface still leaves quite a bit to be desired, though it is not particularly difficult or complicated to use. In general it feels missing some interface polish and fine attention to details. The look and feel appears a bit old fashioned and not as inviting as competing tools like Trillian, GizmoProject, and others.
Wavigo runs both on dial-up and on broadband Internet connections and you can do an easy comparison of the key differences between Wavigo and Skype by looking at this comparative table.
More services are planned for the coming months when Wavigo will interconnect with the regular telephone network.
Wavigo official strategy is one to become a universal access gateway from a single product.
Wavigo is multi-lingual and currently offered in three languages and runs over any Internet connection including dial-up.
Download Wavigo right here. (2.76 MB)
