Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 31st Oct 2009 23:01 UTC
PureMobile sent us in the GSM version of the HTC Hero, one of the most popular Android-based smartphones out there. There are already a number of in-depth reviews about this phone out there (here's one), but here's my own take on what I liked, and what I disliked.
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That's the app I was referring to in the article. I don't have an Asterisk server and I am not willing to run one. And I definitely don't want to use the German PBXes, the developer's own PBX company. PBXes has one of the worst license agreements I have ever seen, and besides, I don't want my call to go from Greece (my mom) to the Bay Area (Google Voice), to San Diego (Gizmo), to Germany (PBXes), back to the Bay Area (myself). This will make the call even more laggy than it already is. So going through Germany, just because this guy doesn't want to make Gizmo5 work right out of the bat without the need for a PBX, it's not something I care for. I even made a bug report about this, and he shot it down saying that he's not interested in making this work! In other words, the way *I* see it, SIPdroid is nothing but a lock-in solution to use this guy's PBX solution (since most people wouldn't fiddle with Asterisk themselves).
I just require a VOIP SIP solution that I can configure it with Gizmo5's proxy/other settings and "just work", like I can do on the iPhone in more than one such applications! But on the Android side, I have to fiddle with PBX/Asterisk, and I don't want to do so. I am 36 now, and I don't have the patience to fiddle with software all day long. I wish I was 31 again, but I am not. ;-)
Edited 2009-11-01 02:20 UTC