{"id":25062,"date":"2010-11-15T18:21:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T22:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.voipsupply.com\/?p=25062"},"modified":"2016-01-15T17:21:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T17:21:16","slug":"grandstream-gxv3140-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/grandstream-gxv3140-skype\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandstream GXV3140 Now Skype Certified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Skype continues to evolve as a service provider it&#8217;s inevitable that they will continue to find ways to move away from the desktop and onto the desktop.<\/p>\n<p>Over the summer, <a href=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/skypes-move-to-the-desktop-ip-phone\/\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'Grandstream released a new firmware');\">Grandstream released a new firmware<\/a> version that allow it&#8217;s <a title=\"grandstream gxv3140\" href=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/grandstream-gxv3140-overview\/\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'GXV3140');\">GXV3140<\/a> to natively support Skype and Skype video calling. Today, Grandstream has taken this one step further by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20101115005252\/en\/Grandstream%E2%80%99s-GXV3140-IP-Multimedia-Phone-Skype-Certified\">announcing<\/a> that they Grandstream GXV3140 is now Skype certified.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s this mean?<\/p>\n<p>Well, unlike this summers announcement, it means that Skype has officially given the <a title=\"grandstream gxv3140\" href=\"\/grandstream-gxv3140\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'Grandstream GXV3140');\">Grandstream GXV3140<\/a> its blessing, making it the second videophone on the market for use with Skype. And according to Grandstream,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Skype certification on the GXV3140 IP multimedia phone creates a seamless video-enabled communications experience from PC to desk  phone, giving Skype users the utmost flexibility and convenience for  video calling. Grandstream&#8217;s        GXV3140 bridges the gap between convenient-to-use dedicated  voice\/video        end-points and the increasingly popular world of PC-based Internet         multimedia communication offerings like Skype.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The idea of seamless video communications is a major hurdle to widespread video calling adoption. For the most part there is little interoperability between video calling services and hardware, leaving most companies interested in video calling hesitant to pull the trigger for fear of living in a walled garden.<\/p>\n<p>While this announcement certainly won&#8217;t change this, it is a step in the right direction and a sign that more seamless video communications solutions are coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Skype continues to evolve as a service provider it&#8217;s inevitable that they will continue to find ways to move away from the desktop and onto the desktop. Over the summer, Grandstream released a new firmware version that allow it&#8217;s GXV3140 to natively support Skype and Skype video calling. Today, Grandstream has taken this one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1217,1224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip-news","category-voip-phone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138233,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25062\/revisions\/138233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}