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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Member since:2009-03-18
I don't use PBXes to make it work. It works out of the box with Gizmo5 w/o any intermediate connections. Just because they recommend some third party service, doesn't mean I use it. I'm actually a little uncomfortable leaving passwords to every VoIP service I use with PBXes.
For ref, the settings from my phone (when not configured for my personal pbx):
Account Settings->Username: 1747XXXXXXX
Account Settings->Password: (gizmo5 password)
Account Settings->Server: proxy01.sipphone.com
Account Settings->Domain: (leave empty)
Account Settings->Port: 5060
Account Settings->Protocol: UDP
On the PBXes Features menu, I have none of the options set as I don't use PBXes. Call Options/Advanced Options don't seem to affect network connections, so I didn't list those.
The only drawback as far as I can tell, is that if you don't have an data plan (I don't anymore), the native Google Voice client refuses to work (thus you don't have native dialing when calling non-SIP contacts). I remedy this with a bookmark to voice.google.com on my homescreen, but it's honestly a pretty shitty alternative. This isn't really SIPDroid's fault though, more of a problem that Google Voice only appears to use the Edge/3G connection to transfer the request to initiate the phone call.
Edited 2009-11-01 03:55 UTC
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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