Make a free calls with Truphone and ESeries
VoIP area is really getting hot. We are still waiting for Skype for S60 but there are few SIP based VoIP solutions available. Try out Truphone. Truphone provides free phone calls across the US and Canada until end of this year and UK users can call free to landlines in 40 countries worldwide. IP calls between Truphone users are naturally free. I had old SW version in my E60 so I had to try famous Nokia software services. It worked perfectly. Then just installing of Truphone.
For some reason I was not able to download it OTA to device. I got SMS link for download as promised but error message “unable to download Truphone” was very persistent. Fortunately there is another solution. You can download sis-file and settings to PC and transfer to phone over IR, BT or cable. It worked. One small trick was needed. SIP registration has to be changed to always on (default on the phone is “when needed”). I’m also using this over WCDMA now, so some configuration manipulation needed there (as default and recommended mode is WLAN), but nothing too complicated. Anyway I made test call to Finnish landline and it WORKED! Finland was not mentioned in the country list with free calls, but seems to be OK in here as well. So here it is, feely available voice calls, unlimited minutes. Seems to work also to mobile phones now in Finland. You can start to make free phone calls over WLAN at home and hot spots. Supported devices are E60, E61, E70 and it will be soon release for N80, N70, N71, N90, N91, N92, N93.
vow that sounds very attractive. what was the quality of the call like? Do you think this would be attractive to anyone who has a WiFi enable Nokia phone and would allow them to make unlimited free calls? sounds almost too good to be true …
It’s true, and I this is just beginning!
When using VoIP over WCDMA there is some delay on voice, but otherwise quality is good. I will try this over WLAN at home. Here in the office that would be hassle because of all VPN issues etc.
I will dig into business implications some time later.
You can get free over the air configuration for Nokia E-series from UK Voip provider aql.com ; just send the word
nokia
to 46664 and in return you’ll get a configuration sms which will set up your phone for you. Let me know what you think if you try it !
Thanks