hello all, and I apperciate all your help in advance.
I am in the process of buying a new phone and I have been researching for the perfect phone and I am between N80IE or hipi 2200 (based on windows mobile)
I want a cell phone that would be configured for using FWD voip account. I have wireless access points (AP1, AP2) and there is a lot of hotspots and AP availble in the public.
the way I want it to work is by having the phone to automatically detect and access any available wireless access point and register with FWD
now here is my question would N80IE do that for me. I have been reading int he forum that I have to create different profiles for each access point or something and that will not work. is there a way or should I buy a different phone for that purpose.
Thanks
The first thing you need to consider is the battery life if you are going to use wifi alot, the N80IE has shockingly crap battery life and you will be lucky to get 2 - 4 hours use with wifi on all the time ... I personally wouldnt choose the N80 for VOIP..its just not powerfull enough,
If you can wait for the N95 I think that would be a better choice as it has a bigger capacity battery...
Ive not seen anything sucsessfully 'roam' between wifi and the mobile network. -I think thats the same case in the windows world also!?!
Cash wrote:The first thing you need to consider is the battery life if you are going to use wifi alot, the N80IE has shockingly crap battery life and you will be lucky to get 2 - 4 hours use with wifi on all the time ... I personally wouldnt choose the N80 for VOIP..its just not powerfull enough, If you can wait for the N95 I think that would be a better choice as it has a bigger capacity battery...
.....and Cash if you think the battery life on the N80 is bad with WiFi on all the time, go treat yourself to a windows mobile phone and leave WiFi on, I think you will be more than happy with the battery life of your N80 afterwards 😊
Any device with Wifi actively switched on and working is gonna run the battery out really fast, the N80 copes very well considering the size of its battery.
can you guys answer the main question....so if I have wifi on all the time..will it automatically connect to public hotspots and register my fwd sip account or do I have to create seperate profiles for home access points and hotspots
one more thing..have you guys checked the hipi 2200..its features are very promising..it supports vpn and nat which I find very interesting
thanks
Ratkat wrote:.....and Cash if you think the battery life on the N80 is bad with WiFi on all the time, go treat yourself to a windows mobile phone and leave WiFi on, I think you will be more than happy with the battery life of your N80 afterwards 😊Any device with Wifi actively switched on and working is gonna run the battery out really fast, the N80 copes very well considering the size of its battery.
sm1thson wrote:Ive not seen anything sucsessfully 'roam' between wifi and the mobile network. -I think thats the same case in the windows world also!?!
Maybe Smartroaming.com has an solution for this. I didn't try it yet but just installed it and now start testing it.
theres no auto connecting to wifi spots on the N80, not 100% sure about N80ie but I doubt that would be much different. There is however a 'show networks when available' graphic... but its pretty useless as you can scan when you need to to find whats out there.
You need to define the access point on the N80 so if your gonna roam the country and not go to the same place twice its adding and then deleting... I dunno how many different access points you can have... (Does anyone else?)
Thank you all for the information.
I am learning a lot.
Freaker, Please let us know if this software works. I will be very interested to get both N80 and this software if it works
Thanks again guys for all the information. I wonder if you guys had the time to take a look at the hipi 2200 & nokia 95 and let me know what you all think
Freaker67 wrote:Maybe Smartroaming.com has an solution for this. I didn't try it yet but just installed it and now start testing it.