Make Phone Calls over the Internet

[Andy Sjostrom]

<a href="http://www.sjlabs.com/products/sjp-ce.html">http://www.sjlabs.com/products/sjp-ce.html</a><br /><br />One of those "big things waiting to happen" is the breakthrough of Voice Over Internet Prototol (VOIP). VOIP makes it possible to use the Internet as a network for phone calls. <a href="http://www.sjlabs.com">SoftJoy Labs</a> has put together a Pocket PC application that allows Pocket PC-to-Pocket PC, Pocket PC-to-Phone and Phone-to-Pocket PC calls. Very nice!

[Ekkie Tepsupornchai]

I'd love to hear about people's experience with this. I'm all over the globe constantly and something like this could save me a bundle if it works well.

[Andy Sjostrom]

I'd love to hear about people's experience with this. I'm all over the globe constantly and something like this could save me a bundle if it works well.

Ditto! Anyone with ANY VOIP experience?

[Rirath]

Sounds great.. but I have to opt for the last option. I really don't know anyone connected who bothers with voice anymore. Don't even know anyone wishing for it. Nothing saying it can't make a comeback... personally I'd like to see VoIP truly work, no matter how slim the chances.

[that_kid]

It works great :D , i've been using various VoIP solutions for my ppc. As a matter of fact, two friends of mine just signed up for a home VoIP solution from www.vonage.com they send you a cisco VoIP gateway that allows you to connect a regular house phone to the unit, now all your calls are made via VoIP(high speed connection required) :P . One of my firends called me last night and if he didn't tell me I would have never guessed. Something like this has great potential. My cousin is stationed in Korea for a year and calling to the states is expensive. Since he has dsl over there I could get him the vonage service with a US number, ship it to him and how he has a "local" phone number for everyone to call him, plus he can call everyone and it won't cost him an arm & leg(service is $40/mo with unlimited long distance). I'm very excited about VoIP, I e-mailed vonage to see if I can also use a software VoIP client to use with the service they supply. If anyone wants a list of some VoIP software for the ppc let me know and i'll post what i've found so far. The ppc side of VoIP needs some more software and the biggest part is that it needs to integrate well with others.

[Rirath]

If anyone wants a list of some VoIP software for the ppc let me know and i'll post what i've found so far.

... Please do.

[Ekkie Tepsupornchai]

The ppc side of VoIP needs some more software and the biggest part is that it needs to integrate well with others.
Sheesh, I work with VoIP software on ANY platform at this point if it works well...

[snazzy]

If anyone wants a list of some VoIP software for the ppc let me know and i'll post what i've found so far.

... Please do.

yeah pls do, esp since now many ppl have built in wifi, it'll be great. what other software/ freeware are there available to make calls from the ppc?

[twntaipan]

The ppc side of VoIP needs some more software and the biggest part is that it needs to integrate well with others.
Sheesh, I work with VoIP software on ANY platform at this point if it works well...
Check out www.iconnecthere.com, which also works with a Cisco ATA 186 (but they don't give it away). They do have lower costs and a softphone, and they have local numbers available. ATA's from Cisco go for about $165 with shipping.

No PPC software yet.

[that_kid]

Ok here's some sites I fnd that hav VoIP software for the pocketpc.
http://www.polypix.com/html/english/product_pda.htm Has pc client software and is full duplex

http://www.gtony.com/pocketgphone/ Works good and has pc client software too, also full duplex.

http://www.ipblue.com/vtgo.htm Seems to only work with cisco Voip software.

www.openh323.org works with netmeeting, is full duplex and can show video.

www.telesym.com telesym is nice but the company is gearing it towards enterprise customers but they have a 30 day trial in which you can make calls from your pocketpc to a landline phone. It works good, even better if you have a headset. Oh yeah they have a desktop version too.

http://research.microsoft.com/~jiangli/portrait/works great, new version allows the ppc to send & recieve files, works with MSN messenger, can be used with global directory. Supports video send/recieve and audio is only full duplex on ipaq 3600's :?: otherwise it works like a walkie talkie(hopefully they get full duplex working on all ppc's :D)

If anyone has some please post, i'm always interested in trying VoIP solutions for the pocketpc and if I run across any more I'll post them.

[bdeli]

Other than Microsoft Portrait I use another tiny app on my pc (51Kb only) called PicoPhone (no video) - http://www.vitez.it/picophone/index.html.

I have tried Telus (in Canada) Voice over iP service, and I was not impressed. Actually they have discontinued the service last December.

[vincentsiaw]

hehehe, what will happen with the long distance provider then? :twisted: