VOIP

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So what's happening in the world of Voice over IP. Is it still a reality??
I use to have the Gphone service but it looks like they dropped out.
So who else is good out there.
I called vonage but there where not to sure on how to configure their to
work with a pocket pc.
So I guess is stickly for home use at least for now,

So does everybody use....

Thanks

SteV

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I've been using vonage's softphone on my ppc for almost a year now and it's
working great. You do have to have service with them to get the softphone
account but it can be done. Skype is another way to do things or you could
go the route of free world dialup. I have vonage, free world dialup and
stanaphone all programmed into xten's xpro and it works great.

--
Eric Hicks [That_Kid] (MS-MVP Mobile Devices)

The MS-MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
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"StvyLife" <cutherestvylife@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:eiRLc.11751$Qu5.4914@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> So what's happening in the world of Voice over IP. Is it still a reality??
> I use to have the Gphone service but it looks like they dropped out.
> So who else is good out there.
> I called vonage but there where not to sure on how to configure their to
> work with a pocket pc.
> So I guess is stickly for home use at least for now,
>
> So does everybody use....
>
> Thanks
>
> SteV
>
>be

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I guess vonage is worth the try...because I'm hoping no contracts; with
unlimited talk-time, for a flat rate right?
I would probably try to set up an account with them and if it works well,
then I'll switch over my phone number to them.
So you say it works with pocket, am I so glad to hear that.
But I had spoken with one of their custoner service agents and he told me
that he never heard of such.
and it would only work with a PC for now. So he was wrong after all.
So does the soware take care of most of the configuration?

Steve


"Eric Hicks [MVP, Windows Mobile devices]" <e_dadu@nomospam.yahoo.com> wrote
in message newsUMPtvBcEHA.2944@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I've been using vonage's softphone on my ppc for almost a year now and
it's
> working great. You do have to have service with them to get the softphone
> account but it can be done. Skype is another way to do things or you
could
> go the route of free world dialup. I have vonage, free world dialup and
> stanaphone all programmed into xten's xpro and it works great.
>
> --
> Eric Hicks [That_Kid] (MS-MVP Mobile Devices)
>
> The MS-MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights...
>
>
>
> "StvyLife" <cutherestvylife@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:eiRLc.11751$Qu5.4914@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> > So what's happening in the world of Voice over IP. Is it still a
reality??
> > I use to have the Gphone service but it looks like they dropped out.
> > So who else is good out there.
> > I called vonage but there where not to sure on how to configure their to
> > work with a pocket pc.
> > So I guess is stickly for home use at least for now,
> >
> > So does everybody use....
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > SteV
> >
> >be
>
>

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I see....thanks again Eric.

Steve

"Eric Hicks [MVP, Windows Mobile devices]" <e_dadu@nomospam.yahoo.com> wrote
in message news:#BgwXpXcEHA.2812@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>
>
> "StvyLife" <cutherestvylife@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> newssmMc.13287$Qu5.12163@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> >I guess vonage is worth the try...because I'm hoping no contracts; with
> > unlimited talk-time, for a flat rate right?
> > I would probably try to set up an account with them and if it works
well,
> > then I'll switch over my phone number to them.
> > So you say it works with pocket, am I so glad to hear that.
> > But I had spoken with one of their custoner service agents and he told
me
> > that he never heard of such.
> > and it would only work with a PC for now. So he was wrong after all.
> > So does the soware take care of most of the configuration?
> >
> > Steve
>
>
> The softphone plan isn't unlimited. To protect themselves from people
> giving access to family and friends vonage limited the softphone account
to
> 500 outgoing minutes and unlimited incoming minutes. It's still not a bad
> deal and I don't use the phone all that much anyhow. Of course calls to
> other vonage numbers is free so if I were away n business and I needed to
> call home I wouldn't have to worry about the 500 minute outgoing limit.
> Also in order to signup for the softphone service you will have to have
> another phone account setup with them. I have an unlimited account setup
on
> my home phone. Still I'm paying much less with these two lines than I
ever
> paid with verizon for just one line.
>
> While vonage doesn't offer support for it, you can get the softphone
working
> ont he ppc. The two companies that provide softphones for vonage also
have
> pocketpc versions. This makes it great cause once you have the settings
you
> can setup the pocketpc version. The desktop versions come pre-programmed
> but not the pocketpc versions. I e-mailed vonage a while ago about
> softphone service on the ppc, they said it may be something they look into
> in the future but at the moment they didn't have the tehnical staff
availabe
> to handle the calls they would get from people trying to get it working.
>
> --
> Eric Hicks [That_Kid] (MS-MVP Mobile Devices)
>
> The MS-MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights...
>
>