Calls with links, instead of phone numbers

Posted by karlheinz_py on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @12:24PM
from the toky.co dept.

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Re:Calls with links, instead of phone numbers by news_to_me on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @01:42PM (#9766296)

How is this different from using the tel: URI scheme and making a cross-platform app to handle that? Sure, I don't need to know your phone number anymore, but now I have to know your Toky URL and to download their app.

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Re:Calls with links, instead of phone numbers by billyhoffman on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @01:48PM (#9766332)

Exactly. Just get a call forwarding service, you can even use Google Voice, and embed tel: URIs in your website to that number. You get the same benefit (no one gets your actual number, as additional ones as well (voice mail, forwarding to different numbers on a schedule, etc).

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Re:Calls with links, instead of phone numbers by karlheinz_py on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @08:50PM (#9775364)

I think the idea of the creators was to make people independent from a telephone company, no need to even own a SIM card..

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Re:Calls with links, instead of phone numbers by lulomx on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @03:30PM (#9767126)

Love that you don't have to download anything. I've been trying it out from my browser and it's pretty neat.

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Re:Calls with links, instead of phone numbers by rimunroe on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @01:43PM (#9766302)

It's strange to have a demo for a voice chat system with no audio track.

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