I have a Nokia N95 which also has a built in SIP client and works very well with Asterisk. I've used it over WiFi to both a local and a remote Asterisk server without issue. I did notice a few complications with it though. First, the client interface is not very intuitive and redundant in areas. Takes a bit of tweaking to get working, especially if you don't know what you are doing. Also, as far as I can tell, you can't just say 'connect to this SIP server on any wireless connection'. You have to assign the profile statically to a single access point. And if you go to a different one (with a different SSID at least) you need to change it's profile to associate it with the new AP. So while it does work, and work well, once you get it configured, it's not very user friendly, and would be a bit difficult to roll out in a business environment due to the lack of easy provisioning. I'm not sure if the other Nokia models have a different client or not, but I think it's the same across the board. But once you configure it and get it running, when you place a phone call you can simply choose "Internet Call" instead, and it will route the call via SIP. Incoming calls are completely transparent. So if you don't mind hand configuring all of the phones and don't intend to use them outside of the office's wireless network, it could be a viable option.
Too bad BlackBerry's won't work. I read that RIM is 100% against any SIP client and have said they would blacklist any program that anyone got working. They don't want to piss off their biggest customers... -James
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