Re: THIS is the future - but how to make it work? - VOiP

From: Mike (no_at_spam.ta)
Date: 03/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 08:35:12 +0000 (UTC)

Hi Eric

Thanks for the info. My X-Pro was a beta from Pocket PC Magazine archive -
maybe should have been removed some time back but it seems to work and beats
£28 for a registered version. I have an account at FWD now which I can
almost get working on my PC but haven't quite managed on the Dell Axim X3.
To top it off Dell is replacing the Axim today as it is one of the millions
that don't like storage cards. Another story. Possibly a scandal.

Anyhoo. I installed SJ phone weeks ago just out of curiosity but didn't have
time to play with. Went to reinstall as you say and it is locked. Can't even
remember what it looks like. I'll have a look at eyepmedia. If someone calls
from FWD 272778 it might be me...

I suspect I will never get all the options working together. I have a lot to
learn about NATs and all that. And how the heck do you 'open a port'?

Many thanks

Mike

Eric Hicks [MVP, Windows Mobile devices] wrote:
> Yeah x-lite is a nice "looking" application but you are paying for
> that look with many cpu cycles. I've been using x-pro with both a
> free world dialup account(www.fwd.pulver.com) as well as a vonage
> softphone account(www.vonage.com) I haven't been keeping up with
> x-phone lately because they seem to be moving away from the pda side
> of things and concentrating more on the desktop side of things. the
> ui is just great but the program is a real resource hog, still you
> can get it to work rather well. Another sip voip client(which is
> what x-phone is) that works very well and doesn't kill the cpu is
> sjphone from www.sjlabs.com but they still haven't released an update
> to their older trial version so the one on their site will say it's
> expired as soon as you install it. Another company making a sip voip
> client that works great is eyep media www.eyepmedia.com but it's
> still in testing right nowbut they do have a desktop version
> available. Once you get setup with a free world dialup account give
> me a call on my pocket pc @ 20603.
>
>
> "Mike" <no@spam.ta> wrote in message
> news:c3bsat$psd$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
>> I downloaded a softphone - the X Lite, which is such a gorgeous
>> thing!
>>
>> But how do I get it to work? Do I have to pay a subscription?
>>
>> Can anyone point me towards a beginner's guide to making internet
>> voice calls from a PDA ?
>>
>> Damn, these are nice looking applications! (Rather a steep learning
>> curve though).
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Mike