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fruehling
05-15-2006, 03:11 AM
Hi all. I normally follow smartphone stuff very closely. However, the last 3 months have been too hectic and I fell waay behind. So I am hoping someone here can catch me up. Basically, I am ready to get a phone, but it needs to have the following:


-Wifi
-Quad Band
-Windows Smartphone
-Non PDA style
-A fast enough processor to use Skype decently

I think the new SDA has all those but the last one. If this exists in any country, please let me know. I am also willing to entertain the tought of a PDA style if there are no other choices. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Mike Temporale
05-15-2006, 05:03 AM
The T-Mobile SDA or the i-mate SP5 and SP5m should all do the trick. You are going to run into a problem with Skype. Currently they don't support the Smartphone environment. There have been some articles on how to hack the Pocket PC version to run on the Smartphone and it does work. But there is no support for it at this time. ;)

ditch_azeroth
05-16-2006, 07:33 AM
i tried skype on my sp5m... you just have to get soti to login the first time - after that, you are connected to skype whenever you have 'net access (via passthrough, wifi, edge, whatever). i dont skype too much though so... ^_^

fruehling
05-16-2006, 03:43 PM
Mike:

So nothing even in the works coming soon for this?

Ditch:

So is the quality of the skype pretty decent when you tried it? The processor doesn't slow it up too much?

edgar
05-16-2006, 04:40 PM
Skype had a beta program released for the Smartphone, but its for the non-voice pieces of Skype (IM, etc). This infers that they are working on a full program for the SP. Haven't seen anything new directly from Skype in a while

Let's cross our fingers!

-Edgar

OLD (almost a year old) Download is available at http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-smartphone

Mike Temporale
05-16-2006, 04:43 PM
I haven't heard of anything. But that doesn't mean much. ;)

It would be my guess that they are working on it and trying to get the best possible quality. With the slow processor, this could be an issue.

ditch_azeroth
05-17-2006, 03:25 AM
@fruehling, no voice (obviously) but i can chat and all. although it doesnt take up too much muscle, it does cripple your device. let me put it this way, i could play music using TCPMP while skypeing - but add another process, the phone responds even slower than a tanager.

the bigger problem though is the connection. you gotta have good wifi connection (and were talkin 802.11b here, not g) to pull it off. you could do passthrough, but that would just defeat the purpose of mobility ^_^

fruehling
05-17-2006, 03:38 AM
@fruehling, no voice (obviously) but i can chat and all. although it doesnt take up too much muscle, it does cripple your device. let me put it this way, i could play music using TCPMP while skypeing - but add another process, the phone responds even slower than a tanager.

the bigger problem though is the connection. you gotta have good wifi connection (and were talkin 802.11b here, not g) to pull it off. you could do passthrough, but that would just defeat the purpose of mobility ^_^

I use 802.11b at home with no Skype problems. Why would it be different with the phone (other than the processor)

Mike Temporale
05-17-2006, 03:54 AM
You're phone doesn't get a full 11Mbps like a home computer would. I think the benchmarks put it around a couple meg - if you're lucky. There's lots of factors at play including the wifi chipset and the battery drain.

fruehling
05-18-2006, 04:41 PM
Ok. So here is what I have gathered from discussions on HowardForums:

The SDA will work just fine with Skype. It just needs overclocking.

-The overclocking program is called OMAPclock
http://www.mobilnaut.cz/downloads/sw/WM/Aplikace/OmapClock_0.2.zip
-224 MHz seems to be a very stable setting for the SDA
-You can get it to run automatically with Tornado PowerControl
http://www.modaco.com/index.php?act=dscript&CODE=showdetails&f_id=1640
-Skype runs perfectly at that speed

There is another phoning program called Woice seems to run well on smartphones with lower CPU speeds and works almost exactly like Skype
http://www.woize.com/

-This very useful SDA FAQ has many things covered
http://www.howardforums.com/archive/topic/858861-1.html

Hope this helps some people.