German firm, fg micotec which specializes in offering unified telephony applications for mobile handhelds announced the availability of a new SDK named as fgVoIP Engine that will enable third party VoIP application developers for BlackBerry to integrate VoIP technology with high-quality full duplex media processing capabilities into applications they build for the BlackBerry platform

The SDK includes fgVoIP Engine as Java library, documentation and Sample code in Java.

"VoIP on BlackBerry® smartphones has been both a challenge and a market requirement for quite some time now. Indeed, in some cases, companies have tried to crack this problem for years without success,” said Robert Mirbaha, fg microtec''s CEO.  “We believe that through our new fgVoIP Engine, BlackBerry® developers will now be able to bring their VoIP-enabled applications to the market in less time, and enable more BlackBerry® smartphone users to benefit from the low call cost advantages of VoIP."