Before moving on to the main topic, let’s first understand what exactly is a mobile dialer, SIP dialer or mobile VoIP dialer. Well, these are all different names for an app that can be installed and used on your smart device. This application is used on smart devices to make VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) calls. It uses SIP signaling and can be mapped to an IP device or a Softswitch.

Using a mobile phone to make calls is the preferred way of calling and this app allows users to initiate a voice or video call or instant message on their own mobile device. This Mobile Dialer app makes free app to app calls which is its main advantage. Also, it makes international calls very cheap compared to other traditional options.

Now let’s take a look at four main types of mobile dialers:

1. Basic mobile bookmarks

This is the most basic version of a mobile VoIP dialer that allows its users to make national and international long distance VoIP calls at low rates. Various service providers take advantage of these dialers to provide a high-quality calling experience to their users. Offering a simple user interface with few advanced features, this type of dialer still has a lot of good features like audio calls to make calls; Address book integration that allows users to initiate a VoIP call simply by selecting a contact. Basic mobile scoreboards are very popular as they are very cost effective.

2.Advanced Mobile Dialers

This type of bookmarks has some value-added features to offer its users. In addition to the typical VoIP calls, they also offer SMS and Instant Messaging. All over the world, the trend among people is to stay connected using a text messaging tool and Advanced Mobile Dialers drive this trend as well as provide a faster communication option. When it comes to its user interface, it is modern and more intuitive. These mobile dialers have many features to offer other than address book integration viz.

• NAT Traversal (Network Address Translation)

• Call logs

• Balance transfer

• IVR Announcement

• And many more

3. Hybrid Mobile Dialers

Also known as Calling Card Dialers, hybrid VoIP dialers have brought together the concept of VoIP calls and calling cards. They simplify the use of calling cards and allow people to switch between two communication channels at their convenience. For this alone, people can even make prepaid calls without an internet connection. When an internet connection is available, this hybrid dialer will switch to the VoIP subscribers account to initiate the call. The best part of these dialers is that users won’t have to remember their lengthy PIN codes and access numbers because the dialer itself will. To initiate the call from a calling card account, the dialer itself will insert the necessary credentials.

4. UC Mobile Scoreboards

As the name suggests, these are UC-enabled dialers that are most popular and useful in a business work environment. Employees of a company can download a UC dialer to their device and connect to their corporate communication network. They can easily use some great features of UC such as file transfer, messaging, group chat, fax, video and audio conferencing, and more.

Apart from this, mobile dialers overcomes the traditional VoIP limitation that only computers or any other VoIP devices can be used to make calls. Now this is possible with mobile phones without much problem because new generation phones have built-in access to certain internet services like Wi-Fi, 3G, 4G and GPRS which allow people to make VoIP calls more easily since lower prices.