In article <jaY8h.59096$r4.8733@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net>,
divoch <divoch@REMOVETHIShotmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
>
>"Gordon Henderson" <gordon@lion.drogon.net> wrote in message
>news:ek1d62$ohh$1@lion.drogon.net...[color=green]
>> In article <BzV8h.59064$r4.27570@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net>,
>> divoch <divoch@REMOVETHIShotmail.com> wrote:[color=darkred]
>>>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[/color]

I run my own Asterisk servers, but I've no reason to think it wouldn't
work with with any of the standard offerings.

It can remember 4 different WiFi Access Points, so I have it set with
the WEP keys of a few places I visit and it generally works out OK. It's
a bit of a fiddle inputting a wep-key via the keypad though, but I have
done it successfully, and you can see the MAC address without powering
it down (it's behind the battery) if you need to for places who also
use MAC address authentication.

Battery life is amazingly long - 3-4 days standby, and talk time is
several hours.

Gordon