Zello

There are many instant messengers and VoIP clients out there that allow you to stay in touch with your friends and loved ones. Zello takes a walkie-talkie approach to letting you chat with your contacts. To start talking, just click a button on your PC’s desktop or tap a button on your mobile’s screen. It’s all very straightforward – a very convenient way of chatting with friends.

Zello is available for multiple platforms. You can use the application on your desktop, Windows-powered PC. And you can also use it on your mobile device – your iPhone, your Android, or your BlackBerry.
Putting the spotlight on Microsoft’s Windows OS, installing Zello is a very simple process: download an installer, run it, follow the instructions presented by a setup wizard. Then quickly create an account and use it to log in and get started with Zello.

If you’ve used an instant messaging application in the past, you should immediately feel at home with Zello. The application’s main panel lists all your contacts. At the top there are tabs for switching between Contacts, Trending Channels, and Recents. At the bottom there’s a dropdown for setting your availability status and the button you need to press to start talking.

From a functionality point of view, you can expect to get the following from Zello: maintain a list of contacts, push to talk with your contacts, create a group/channel, lots of existing channels, create and edit your profile, Norman and Compact view for the interface, set a custom status message, hotkeys are supported.

Zello is a free application that has been downloaded more than 10 million times since it was released.

Just push and talk. Things are literally that easy with Zello, a free push-to-talk application for smartphones and PCs.