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fg microtech, whose products blend converged SIP based VoIP solutions single and dual mode handsets with unprecedented speech quality and usability, has announced the availability  of the fgVoIP Engine. The fgVoIP Engine allows BlackBerry (News - Alert) developers to integrate a third party VoIP technology with high quality full duplex media processing capabilities into applications they develop for the BlackBerry platform for the first time.

The fgVoIP Engine is offered by fg microtec (News - Alert) for the Blackberry platform as a Software Development Kit (SDK). Developers will be able to resolve the major challenges of adding full duplex (sending and receiving) real-time voice to a BlackBerry smartphone by the use of the fgVoIP Engine. The fgVoIP Engine Software Development Kit (SDK), which will be available in early May, includes library, fgVoIP Engine as a Java, documentation and sample code in Java.

The fgVoIP Engine is being offered by fg microtec to companies building real-time applications for the BlackBerry platform like telephony and UC clients, and organizations with interest in implementing VoIP on BlackBerry devices.

fg microtec has 10 years of experience in mobile application development, particularly in real-time applications like VoIP. Their VoIP technology has been in the market since the year 2006. It enables high quality, dependable full duplex voice encoding and decoding with low delay which is appropriate for VoIP applications. The company has built VoIP technologies and VoIP clients for iPhone (News - Alert), BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Symbian platform.

Robert Mirbaha, the chief executive officer at fg microtec, stated that VoIP on BlackBerry smartphones has been a challenge and a market requirement for a long time now. In some cases, companies have indeed, without success, tried to crack this issue for numerous years. fg microtec believes that through its innovative fgVoIP Engine, BlackBerry developers can now bring their VoIP enabled applications to market in less time, and more BlackBerry smartphone users will benefit from VoIP's low call cost advantages.