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Nokia Deep-Sixes VoIP

Source: www.voip-news.com

Nokia is bidding farewell to VoIP on its mobile phones. The new N-series of phones isn’t compatible with VoIP, unlike previous models. Gigaom is calling it a case of cold feet. The company did insist that they are still committed to allowing internet calls alongside regular calls.

According to Gigaom:

The theory is that Nokia isn’t mucking with E-series devices because they are more enterprise focused. Since VoWLAN is more popular with the corporations, Nokia can’t afford to remove the VoIP functionality. It is one feature that makes the phones more competitive with say Blackberry.

On the consumer front, however, voice-over-WiFi has become a thorn in the side of carriers, as exemplified by actions of carriers such as T-Mobile against VoWiFi-startups such as Truphone. Furthermore, the emergence of 3G has made it easier to route calls over the 3G network.

Published on August 26th, 2008 under , , , ,

New VoIP and Presence Application for Symbian Series 60 Phones, New Phone from Nokia Too

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

Octro Talk is a new voip and presence application that works on Symbian Series 60 phones.

What’s more interesting to me is that client Nokia has introduced the new 6300i that includes more than a SIP stack. They included a full SIP based VoIP client that is easily configurable. That means users of SIP based VoIP who are able to obtain their SIP credentials from the carrier can be totting around a VoIP phone that works over WiFi. The phone, which will retail for less than $300 doesn’t have 3G capability.

A third company, Tpad has introduced a Truphone like clone that takes advantage of the stack already present in the N and E Series devices to create a full VoIP service.

Published on March 29th, 2008 under , , , , , , , , , ,

Mobile VoIP for Nokia E and N Series Phones

Source: www.voip-news.com

There’s a new Mobile VoIP service available on Nokia E and N series phones that are WiFi-enabled. Tpad has devised a free SMS messaging service that will automatically update a phone, enabling it to use mobile VoIP, Telecom Tiger reports.

Chris Morris, Tpad’s general manager said “Free calling has finally arrived on mass market mobiles. We are giving all new users who sign up for a free Tpad mobile account a free test call to the value of $0.50 for a limited period. Users will thus have the opportunity to experience the call quality of next generation mobile VoIP.”

 

Calls will be free if they are routed over their WiFi connection  however all other PSTN calls from the user’s WiFi mobile to any other landline or mobile in the world will be come at very low rates.

Published on March 29th, 2008 under , , , , , , , ,

Nokia Has Doubts About UMA

Source: gigaom.com

Nokia is uncertain about the future of UMA and may not develop any more dual-band handsets for the standard, according to George Fry, director of technology alignment for the Finnish company. “We’re not seeing use diminishing, but we are seeing deployments level off,” Fry said earlier this week at the Personal Computing and Communications Association meeting.

Fry said that in cases in which an operator such as T-Mobile is trying to fill holes in its coverage without spending more to build out the network, UMA makes sense. But he said he wasn’t aware of any new deployments in the last six months or so. Indeed UMA, a standard that allows for secure hand-off between a cellular and fixed network, has proved somewhat polarizing.

Meanwhile Steve Shaw, associate VP of marketing for Kineto Wireless, notes that UMA is also a key component of femtocells, which are currently en vogue in the telco world. Again, there’s no sense of how wide any sort of femtocell deployment might be, but Shaw, whose company bills itself as the UMA company, isn’t counting the standard out.

While admitting that current UMA deployments requiring dual-mode handsets are few, he points out that Orange does have plans to deploy a dual-band network in the UK, Spain and Poland to augment its program started in France. Maybe UMA will become a useful but limited standard, in a manner similar to the way Infiniband was hyped as a replacement for Fibre Channel and Ethernet, but instead was only adopted by the smaller market for high-performance computing.

Published on February 22nd, 2008 under , , , , ,

Feb. 12, 2008; BlackBerry’s Jam and Android Angst

Source: gigaom.com

Published on February 12th, 2008 under , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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