On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:19 AM, James Babiak <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
James, There is a configuration tool (I've heard) that can provision SIP profiles on Nokia handsets and set more advanced settings. RIM has a lot of problems... 1) They have an enterprise SIP-ready PBX integration product that integrates with BES. It's called MVS and it practically doesn't exist in the United States (due to carriers). Furthermore, carriers aren't their biggest customers. They're their ONLY customers. RIM won't sell devices to anyone but a carrier. 2) There are other companies developing this functionality, possibly by leveraging MVS. 3) The BlackBerry application development environment is essentially %100 java. There are available SIP libraries but no RTP/media libraries. I can't imagine it's very practical to implement an RTP/media library in Java anyway... -- Kristian Kielhofner http://www.astlinux.org http://blog.krisk.org http://www.star2star.com http://www.submityoursip.com http://www.voalte.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
