Nokia and Engin bring VoIP calls in Australia with Nokia’s N80i
By Stefan Constantinescu on Sunday, January 21st, 2007 at 10:44 PM PST In Telecommunications
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Engin promise that “making Internet phone calls with the Nokia N80 Internet Edition is as easy as making a traditional phone callâ€, with Ilkka Tales, CEO of Engin saying that: “People are increasingly using Internet Telephony to dramatically reduce the cost of their home and business phone bills. Now we can offer them the same savings breakthrough on their mobile phoneâ€.
Tales continues: “Already more than one in four people are regularly using their mobile devices to access the Internet, which shows that the mass market is recognising the value of convergent devices. With the Nokia N80 Internet Edition, you can seamlessly blend together surfing the web and making cost-efficient Internet callsâ€.
Wanting to promote the cost benefits that VoIP offers, Tales continues that: “With the proliferation of WiFi hot spots in the home, office and public areas, people can use the Nokia N80 to make calls, no matter where they are, over the Engin network at our low cost call rates. You can literally be in a public space, connected to a WiFi hotspot and make 10 cent untimed calls to landlines around Australia, and 20 cent untimed calls to 20 countries around the world.
Source: iTWire
Via: VoIP Watch
I’m a technical person. I’ve played around with VoIP on my E61 using Truphone, and it really is quite easy. However this is something that needs to be done automatically with zero user intervention. How nice would it be if the phone knew your present location (GPS), it then turns on its WiFi radio and connects to a known access point for that area, then you’re in insta-cheap-call mode?
Actually using my e61… no real need for a GPS to make it switch on automatically at known places…
Since they fixed the Power Saving mode with FW3
I have several SIP connections under one profile (One per known location, home and work for instance), which are set on “Always On” … using the wifi presence system it automatically connects to my SIP provider. So when people call at home, I get the call even when I’m at the office.
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(my SIP provider is my ADSL ISP (called “Free”) which provides a SIP server to access the phone part of their triple-play offer, accessible from anywhere on earth, If you see what I mean
durrr why didn’t I think of that!
good one JaXX, nice you have an ISP who accepts new technology, instead of using packet shaping to deter you from trying out VoIP.
Traffic Shaping to bust out VoIP ? wow, which landline ISP (xDSL/Cable) does that ? that really sucks.
To come back to My ISP, I know it’s free advertisement but well, Free has a all-in-one offerwhich combines a two-part installation, an ADSL2+ (I have 24Mbs) modem-router with MIMO-wifi antennas and a sort of PVR (40GB HDD) and HDMI/DVI plugs for HDTV and a DVB tuner, nearly 200 channels available with IPTV… Static IP and personnalized reversed hostname. Both parts run Linux
You can plug an ordinary phone to the modem and have a dedicated phone number with free calls to most of the planet, or use the SIP service from anywhere you can get internet (like from an airport in asia 
).
All this for 30 Euros/Month
They also started deploying a WiMax network (they have a nationwide license) and are lurking to bid on an available 3G mobile phone license, they are also starting FTTH in Paris.
For once… I really mean it… for Once, there is something nice happening in France…
There are big User communities gravitating around Free… like about the Phone service itself:
http://www.freephonie.org (There’s a Wiki explaining the configuration for Series 60 3rd Ed. phones, and a google map of the last versions of the modem which emits a phone dedicated wifi network)
Ok, I’m done now
It’s just that I know this ISP very well 
And thanks to Free, we at last have high-speed and affordable internet in this darn country.
What country are you in?! 24 meg internet!
France
They permit you as much as your line can support:
ADSL2+ is up to nearly 24Mbps of usable datarate (a bit more counting the ATM headers)… of course, this is possible when very close to the phone central.
My line is 648 meters long (0.4mm thin wire) which gives 9dB of theoretical signal loss (always more in reality because of in phone-central wiring and dispatch boxes on the path, 15dB downwards, 9dB upwards, upwards is less affected because of the lower frequency) , nearly maximal data rate in my case.: right now: my Modem can sync up to 26785 kbs down / 1351 kbs up (ATM speed, take about 10% off for usable rate)
Hello guys, I have been using the E60 for a while now, with the aql.com VoIP service. Have you seen this video about the N80i?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve5lXitUfI