NetTalk challenges MagicJack, gets slammed by MagicJack founder
By Donald Melanson 
posted January 21st 2010 3:24PM
posted January 21st 2010 3:24PM
Air enough annoying late-night commercials and you're bound to attract a few imitators, and it looks like MagicJack now has its first courtesy of upstart NetTalk. Same basic idea here: buy a VoIP box (for $100, in this case), plug in your phone, and make all the long distance calls you want. Of course, MagicJack's outspoken founder Dan Borislow wasn't about it slide by without notice, and he fully lit into the company in a recent interview with Laptop Magazine. Head on past the break to check out the choice quote for yourself -- but first, a word of warning, it's a bit salty. No response from NetTalk just yet, but we have a nagging feeling that this won't be the last we hear of this budding rivalry -- at least we hope it's not.It's a piece of shit. It has static. The call quality is pathetic. There's no phone numbers available, and it's run by a bunch of fly-by-nights with no assets. They'll be bankrupt soon. We're a real company with the best network and best software.
Now this is my kind of guy.
Obscenities are cool people!
They should be used by professional people -- it helps get the point across even moreso :)
"It's a piece of shit. It has static. The call quality is pathetic."
Strange, thats exactly how I feel about magicjack whenever I'm calling outside of my area code
MagicJack saved me a shitlo@d of money when i was in asia and needed to maked calls hear to the US, SHITLO@DS!!!! if he wantrs to call NetTalk MagicjJack's retartded cousin he can
Yeah magic jack fuck those boys up!
What does Jimmy Kimmel have to do with it?
Oh, I get it. "Piece of shit".
He needs to sic his daughters dogs Magic and Jack on that mofo.
Sounds to me like he feels threatened. And I have to say (as an Ooma owner) looking at NetTalk's website, that feature-wise this thing sounds great. Now, in the real world, it might suck, with horrible sound quality or whatever, but I'm very tempted. Why hasn't Engadget tested this out (rather than bringing it up only in a context where the obviously-biased Magicjack guy can dis it unchallenged)?
@Scott R "Why hasn't Engadget tested this out (rather than bringing it up only in a context where the obviously-biased Magicjack guy can dis it unchallenged)?"
Agreed, I'd like to see Engadget do a review on it.
The TK6000 has been out for MONTHS! And FINALLY engadget writes about it! Both magicJack and TK6000 are based in South Florida. Tracfone is based down in Florida, too. South Florida is a regular mecca for telecom startups.
Reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBxeDN4tbk
I wonder what he thinks of Ooma.