Thread: What does having Skype on the N800 mean? Calling anyone on any phone?
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Jerome is offline Jerome
2007-06-28 , 18:38
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Originally Posted by jbaas View Post
Their protocol is very opaque, making it impossible to reverse engineer, which locks you to their software. Gizmo project probally does something similair with their own VoIP protocol
Gizmo uses standard sip. Nothing fancy.

Skype uses a very obfuscated protocol indeed. One of the reason they do that (in addition to lock you, I know) is to make it difficult to block them. That is why you can't use gizmo or sip on any wifi access point which is run by a phone company (like the paying ones in airports , for example), but skype will work (most of the time).