Gizmo VOIP and E61 v3 worked!!

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sharice

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Hey just to let you guys know, and its probably been posted before but VOIP works with v3 firmware for the E61. I have just set it up and using UMTS/GPRS rather than WiFi works. The call quality is excellent. Only thing is that over UMTS/GPRS there is about 1 to 2 seconds delay but overall the quality is great from the E61 to a landline number.

I did get this to work with v1 firmware but the quality is poor and barely able to converse with the other person on a landline.
 
greentooth,

No im in Australia. I thought UMTS was everywhere now. Australia normally gets the latest technology last between USA, Europe and Asia. I thought that we in fact were the last one to get UMTS.
 
@zeu: The U.S. has UMTS on one provider only currently (Cingular), and because of the screwed up nature of our frequency licensing, N. American UMTS is on different frequencies than everywhere else... so even though Cingular HAS UMTS, none of the current S60 phones (or really any other phones besides Cingular's limited offerings and the TyTN) can be used on their network.

Sad but true.

-olly
 
AT&T Wireless rolled out UMTS first in six cities. Then it was acquired by Cingular and Cingular essentially rebuilt the whole UMTS network, which meant UMTS was pretty much down, at least in my area, for perhaps 2-3 months.

Was not fun being a paying customer for UMTS service, and seeing the network suddenly disappear, but for some reason my $80/month data bill didn't suddently disappear with the network. To be fair, Cingular did offer a one time $80 credit on my bill and I could still use EDGE, but that really didn't make up for 2-3 months of non-service. That 3G speed is addictive.
 
Lol, I know that AT&T did it first, was trying to avoid getting into it.

mch you are one of the few people on the forums that has had UMTS since the very beginning I think... of course those of us in Seattle have had it longer than 90% of the country, so that makes sense.

Were you using that brick of a Motorola back in the day?

I remember playing with one at the AT&T store at Bellsquare... I was like "yeah, the speed gains are cool, but I don't want to use a phone that looks like it's from the 80's!"



-olly
 
I tried both that motorola (a845?) and the Nokia 6651. They were both pretty terrible in a number of ways. In the end the Merlin UMTS 1900 card was the best reasonable option for actually using UMTS data.

The Motorola a845 was easily the worst phone I ever owned and I have owned quite a few phones. It was very unstable and crashed a lot. Most of the time when it crashed it would still be consuming power at a pretty good rate, the screen would be black, it wouldn't receive calls, and I'd need to remove the battery to get it going again. This would happen at least once a day. I returned the first A845 I bought figuring it must be defective, tried a second and it had exactly the same problems. It would also drop calls more or less constantly, either in GSM mode or UMTS mode, and incoming calls would often end up with a fast busy (was that the phone, the network, a combination? who knows). It would also drop data connections. No EDGE, so it was either GPRS (very slow) or UMTS (nice and fast).

The Nokia 6651 was better. No GSM 850 (but it could hold a call on GSM better than the Moto, go figure). It couldn't effectively tether on Bluetooth because of a speed limitation on Bluetooth transfers. USB was the only way to go for tethering, and that mostly worked. It was actually pretty stable, with good sound quality, but also pretty featureless. Again, no EDGE, but it would fall back to GPRS. Lack of GSM 850 and the Bluetooth tethering issues were the main issues.

The Merlin card was UMTS 1900 only. Wouldn't do EDGE or GPRS, but the thing actually worked quite well. Being an early adopter of UMTS was troublesome, but the speed was really worth the pain.

How AT&T Wireless managed to qualify the A845 for anything, I don't know. The only thing it was really good at was being a paperweight, being so big and heavy.

Didn't really mean to hijack the thread though. Nice that the E61 VOIP issues are better. I've actually had reasonable luck with Truphone over WiFi even with the v2 firmware. Seems like it gets the Nokia VOIP client to re-register every 30 seconds (I've actually done packet traces over WiFi). Still a few glitches occasionally, but the Nokia SIP client with Truphone mostly works through NAT.
 
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