http://www.osnews.com/story/15923/Review_FiWin_SS28S_WiFi_VoIP_SIP_Skype_Phone Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:58:35 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?164392 http://osnews.com/thread?164392 both design and overall usability will mature very fast for VoIP gadgets I think... as it happened with cellular phones... future is bright... :-) Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pistooli) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?164398 http://osnews.com/thread?164398 Don't you think that 8/10 is a very high score given the usability, security and USB problems? Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ebasconp) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?164402 http://osnews.com/thread?164402 >Don't you think that 8/10 is a very high score given the usability, security and USB problems?


Not at all. I was completely blown away by the audio quality. As I stated, I'm willing to overlook the issues because it was so impressive. Who really scans their networks looking for mac addresses in FiWin's range to find voip phones so that they can exploit them?

Usability issues were bad, but I spend most of my time on the same network, so I can overlook that one as well.

And hopefully FiWin will figure something out with the USB issue. Maybe they'll start selling the cable? Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zmcgrew) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?164404 http://osnews.com/thread?164404 I have this phone too. I wrote a small review about it here: http://tuxtops.com/node/994
It's been less than 2 months since I got it and while in the beginning the battery would last about 30-40 hours in standby mode (connected to the wifi router, but not talking with it), it now does not make it through over 10 hours! The battery just loses its charge way too fast as the time goes by! The suggested standby time by FiWin is 60 hours, but this claim is just not true. At least not after just 2 months or extremely low usage (maybe about 40-50 calls in that whole time).

I am bammed about the usability and stability issues too btw (a friend called me twice from his Treo 600 with his SIP client Articulation application, and the phone crashed -- twice). However, when you actually call directly to most other SIP clients (not all) or to real phones or cellphones, it works fine (through the Gizmo/sipphone network).

In conclusion, the phone works 90% of the time when you call or you are called, depending how the other person is calling you from or to what client are you calling to.

The funniest bug I found: If I had Thom Holwerda (the osnews editor) in my contact list, the phone would call him EVEN if I was trying to call someone else from the contact list. There was something about his name (or Gizmo number) that would trigger a bug in the phone and it would only call him. After I removed his name from the contact list, everything went back to normal. This is a reproducible bug here. Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?164407 http://osnews.com/thread?164407 There was something about his name (or Gizmo number) that would trigger a bug in the phone and it would only call him.

Hell be darned, you discoverd my plans to world domination! Merde! Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?164412 http://osnews.com/thread?164412 BTW, regarding wifi reception: the phone lost its connection to my Netgear 802.11b/g router yesterday when I went to our apartment complex's laundry room. That's about 25-30 meters away from the router. Not sure if this is bad or good reception though. I let you decide. Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?164865 http://osnews.com/thread?164865 I guess the Time Zone troubles will be over when Daylight Saving ends..! Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pepa) Comments