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

Sounds promising. Have you tried any of the free Hotspots? I know there
were some advertised in Krakow and in Prague. I believe they
are low speed, i.e. 64kb/sec. I assume rightly or wrongly, these are open
and do not require WEP keys.
divoch