What with all the wlan and voip interest, thought I'd drop a note reminding that you can have voip without wlan, though of course rather less flexibly location-wise; nearby a friendly workstation or, as the case may be, your laptop, you can have your phone connected to the internet via Bluetooth. Then all you need is a ported SIP softphone, which shouldn't be much of a problem, though of course a somewhat unified phone interface would need more work.
I at least plan to script easy Bluetooth internet access via my workstations and laptop for my eventual OpenMoko, though not so much for VOIP; I rather find that phones aren't really for talking anyway, net access being their primary use ;) And since this is my first post, some ObPraise: Yes, I indeed very much plan on buying the first-gen OpenMoko phone, despite lacking some attractive features (notably the WiFi and 3G); the freedom and flexibility outweigh those in my book. Indeed I've been wondering which phone manufacturer would be the least evil and which phone the most open for my next phone upgrade (my current phone having already once seen the soldering iron), and the OpenMoko announcement made it very easy for me. (Having affordable flat-rate GPRS here in Finland also certainly helps mitigate the small feature holes :) So, kudos to everyone involved, and I hope the shipping date holds. -- Mikko Rauhala - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - <URL:http://www.iki.fi/mjr/> Transhumanist - WTA member - <URL:http://www.transhumanism.org/> Singularitarian - SIAI supporter - <URL:http://www.singinst.org/> _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
