Bruce Nik wrote: > Thanks for all the great feedback guys. Nokia phone/hand held is a good > quality phone but the only problem is that it has a WiFi limitation. You can > only set a few number of trusted networks. So, it would not connect to any > zone automatically. If you are within the vicinity of a free network then you > have to manually set it as a trusted site. On top of that, only 5 or 6 > networks can be added to the list. The automatic / auto trust option is what > strive for (I know I would use it for SIP more than I regular GSM). For that > reason, I think HTC phones (which run Windows) are more attractive. However, > the downside for them is the battery life and Windows (freezes; this is what > I heard from friends). Though I have never had an HTC phone before. I had an > HP iPaq (644MHZ) hand held and it would freeze too much. So, I would stay > away from iPaq.
What about 3rd party Wifi/SIP clients for the Nokia phones? > I also liked the idea of "Laptop" :) I guess that is the ideal solution. The most open/flexible at this point in time, even OpenMoko won't give you the same ompf due to CPU limitations. > In addition, OpenMoko sounds to be very interesting and obviously the first > thing that comes to mind is that it's open source and lots can be done with > it. But, I just saw a clip of it booting up and woooooo it will take some > time till it boots up. What if you have to make that quick 911 call and the > phone is off? lol... I guess something like a lifeline would be a good > feature to have on this phone. Wasn't it Intel that was playing with an email client built into the BIOS? Maybe something could be built into the boot loader of the open moko for emergency calls since all GSM based phones are supposed to be able to make emergency calls even without SIM cards etc. -- Best regards, Duane http://www.freeauth.org - Enterprise Two Factor Authentication http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom http://e164.org - Because e164.arpa is a tax on VoIP "In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
