Thread: Simplest way to use Google Voice on N900 without callbacks?
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2011-08-30 , 18:47
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Originally Posted by sytheii View Post
It's not what I wanted to hear at all, but in a way it makes sense. I am still going to try yate and see what that is like...but if its no good, then I will prolly just go with some minutes. The thing that I had wanted to achieve though, was being able to have free calling, AND a data plan. I had gotten so used to being able to google search whenever I wanted, that now i'm not sure if i can do without it.

On a side note though, the mobile broadband i was talking about with tmobile, is supposedly a 4g network. I know the n900 isnt 4g...but supposing it was, would call quality be much better, do you think?
That was exactly what I wanted to achieve: My "phone as a phone" needs are low enough to actually experiment with a pure data plan. I did that with Tmo and where it's 3G, it really is blazingly fast and capable of sustaining a full data (voip) call. But try driving and talking (in the passenger seat of course) and it's pretty useless because of the range constantly fluctuating.

Also: State parks = no 3g range. Beach = no 3g range. So pretty much home and a little bit around office = 3g. Is it worth it? Wasn't for me.
Of course, I couldn't go without Internet on my geek device, so I shelled out for an unlimited web + text and limited minutes family plan without a contract. Costs me about $110/month.

I've done this same evaluation on the TMo G2 Android and the Nokia C7. Pretty much same problem. Yes SIP works, but it has the same problems.
On the C7: The default SIP is moody. When it works it is good, but the C7's wifi interface is horrendous. Fring makes it slightly bearable.
On the G2: sipdroid is good and clean in its interface, but comparing to the phone's call quality, falls short by quite a bit.

I'm testing all this on the n950 and I'll post results once I test a little more vigorously.
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