09-05-2004, 06:00 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Engadget How-To: Using Your Pocket PC as a WiFi Phone
"This week�s How-To is a handy one for the folks out there who use the Vonage Voice Over IP (VOIP) service and happen to have a Pocket PC device with WiFi. We�re going to show you how to turn just about any Pocket PC PDA device in to a real telephone with a working telephone number. At the end of this, we�re also going to post our phone number so you can test it out (it might be a long distance call for you)."
Engadget How-To Guy Phillip Torrone (aka phillip torrone, aka pt) has written a guide for using your Pocket PC as a WiFi phone using the Vonage VoIP service and the SJphone software. At the end of the article, he also gives out his SoftPhone number and mentions something about hot gadget action, if that kind of thing happens to turn your crank. 8O
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09-05-2004, 06:05 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,725
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Awesome. Looks like it'll be a good read. I'm currently in the process of convincing my parents to get Vonage. It'll save them money, and I'll love all the features. :lol:
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09-05-2004, 06:13 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 482
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This looks wonderful, a good way around crappy phone companies
But what about Microsoft Portrait? It's free, and you can use essentially do the same thing without the necessity of plans, right?
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09-05-2004, 06:16 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,725
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Originally Posted by delfuhd
But what about Microsoft Portrait? It's free, and you can use essentially do the same thing without the necessity of plans, right?
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Can MS Portrait connect to the PSTN?
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09-05-2004, 07:13 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 18
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Vonage beats all other VoIPs into the dust...... I'm about to get an account with vonage........ and you can use your pocket pc like a cell phone where ever you have wifi access.... ain't it great??
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09-05-2004, 07:39 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,725
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The only thing that scares me about Vonage is the statement
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A SoftPhone account is $10 extra per month and includes unlimited calling in the USA.
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Does that mean you can't use a SoftPhone without paying that extra $10/month? Or can you still use your primary number via SoftPhone?
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09-05-2004, 07:41 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 15
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Does anyone know if SJPhone awakes the PDA if someone calls? What I trying to do is to use vonage at home and when I leave the house, and am in the wifi area, I want to be able to receive a call even when my pda is off. Am I asking too much?
Thanks.
Daniel.
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09-05-2004, 07:43 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,725
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Originally Posted by spontaneous
Does anyone know if SJPhone awakes the PDA if someone calls? What I trying to do is to use vonage at home and when I leave the house, and am in the wifi area, I want to be able to receive a call even when my pda is off. Am I asking too much?
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Yeah, you probably are asking too much. I don't know for sure, but very few programs can wake your PDA. Now if you just turn of the screen, it would probably work, although it wouldn't be great for battery life.
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09-05-2004, 08:16 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 1,183
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Originally Posted by spontaneous
Does anyone know if SJPhone awakes the PDA if someone calls? What I trying to do is to use vonage at home and when I leave the house, and am in the wifi area, I want to be able to receive a call even when my pda is off. Am I asking too much?
Thanks.
Daniel.
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If your PDA is off, so is your Wi-Fi receiver. So no calls when the PDA is not switched on and not connected to a Wi-Fi network.
Steve
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09-05-2004, 08:40 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 31
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Ok, I've had my Vonage account for exactly one month now. It is totally awesome. A Verizon account with the same features cost me $63.00 a month. The 500 minute Plan with Vonage (We don't use the phone much) after taxes and crap came to $16.93. Now to talk via pocket pc via my Ipaq 4150 at my local coffee house/second home will be very cool. Now I can out geek that smug little smartphone user that has been annoying me. ;-)
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