Bria is the newest softphone application from CounterPath, allowing users to enjoy multimedia communications in a dynamic way. Featuring an intuitive interface, Bria is expanding the softphone experience by making it even easier to make VoIP and Video over IP calls, see when your contacts are available and send Instant Messages. While the popular eyeBeam 1.5 softphone uses a familiar-looking dialpad-centric user interface (which looks and feels like a regular phone), Bria features a contact-centric interface which focuses on your address book. This allows you to manage your communications more conveniently and according to your personal preferences. Bria Professional is a version of Bria which offers additional business features for the enterprise or business user such as provisioning and LDAP integration.
Bria is available in 6 languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Italian.

Standard Features:

-Open Standards based
-Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) based signaling for all interactive media sessions
-Enhanced Quality of Service (QoS) for voice & video calls
-Security offering signaling & media encryption via TLS and SRTP streams
-Performance Management of the SIP end-point
-High Compression codec support
-Comprehensive Personal Address Book, including detailed calls lists and history
-Zero-Touch Configuration of your audio or video devices
-Microsoft Outlook® integration allowing users to import their address book into their Bria contact list and dial directly from the application.
-IM & Presence Management
-Multi-party and ad hoc Voice and Video Conferencing [IP & PSTN]
-Voice & Video Call Recording
-Detachable & Sliding Drawers for quick Video and Contact information
-Incoming call alerts


Exclusive to Bria
Bria offers several new features not available in eyeBeam:

Interface
Focused around your address book, Bria's contact-centric interface gives you more ways to make, receive and manage your calls and IMs.
Make your desktop space more manageable by minimizing Bria to a deskbar from which you can make and receive calls quickly and easily.

Call Management
Communicate more efficiently with a contact-centric user interface
Hide the dial pad when you don't need it
See picture-in-picture video layout
Employ Do Not Disturb function audio/video calls and/or IM and/or availability status
Detach call tabs
Use Quick Transfer for calls
Hide your ID for calls

Contact Management
Add a contact during a call
View combined history for calls and IM attached to contact details
Use default contact method for each contact
Place one contact in several groups
View avatars for individual contacts

IM Management
Send instant messages to groups
Use IM tabs for multiple IM conversations in one window
See IM alerts for incoming IM

Email
Send email to a contact or group using your default email application

Presence
Receive or block notification alerts for contacts' status
Establish unique privacy rules for each contact

Other
Create multiple user profiles
Set custom ringtones for calls and IM