"Gordon Henderson" <gordon@lion.drogon.net> wrote in message
news:ek1d62$ohh$1@lion.drogon.net...[color=blue]
> In article <BzV8h.59064$r4.27570@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net>,
> divoch <divoch@REMOVETHIShotmail.com> wrote:[color=green]
>>Has anybody here had some experience in using VOIP (Skype or SIP based) on
>>a
>>Wi-Fi enabled mobile phone via free Wi-Fi Hotspots abroad to make free
>>calls
>>back to UK or anywhere else?[/color]
>
> I've been using the UT Starcom F1000G WiFi phone for a while now. It's
> a bit fiddly to setup, and voice quality might be better, but it does
> the job for what I want it for. Not sure it would be good for "serious"
> or "corp-rat" business use, but ...
>
> [url]http://www.utstar.com/Solutions/Handsets/WiFi/[/url]
>
> And of-course your VoIP experience will only be as good as the Internet
> connection you have - so out in the middle of no-where where they only
> have an ADSL line then it could be problematic, but I'll find out soon
> enough when I travel to Egypt where I know a place I'll be in where I
> can get free WiFi access (to a 512Kbps ADSL connection)
>
> A friend of mine has the 3000 model, which is pretty and has a colour
> screen, but he seems to have great problems programming it...[/color]

Which SIP service have you used with the phone? I presume it should work
with any SIP based service? I would certainly be interested to hear about
your travel experiences with the phone.
divoch