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...and I've tried 'em all. The built in client's call quality is terrible, gizmo weighs 300 pounds and .. oh wait. Those are the only two options. (I'm talking SIP here before you Skypers jump all over me)

And then Fring showed up on me radarrrr. There's an absolutely horrifying thread here, another one here, an official website with a maemo .install that didn't work (for me)...and then finally after a google I discover this: fring_1.2.1.63-1_armel.deb. Sweet. Being the adventurous type I install it and...it looks designed for a 9 year old girl but is a better experience than any other SIP client I've used on the 770 or N810 so far! Actually if you have both Fring and the built-in client running at the same time and call yourself, Fring will begin ringing a good 5 seconds before the other! Taking a look at syslog seems to tell me that fring uses less complex and cpu-intensive codecs hence it's irresistable...workability?!?!?! Calls actually sound great and don't break up, don't have ten seconds of silence, don't ring 3 minutes after the other end hung up, etc etc.

SO IM STOKED! A SIP client I can use in conjunction with Google Voice/ DialCentral / sipphone.com that doesn't suck! Say the interface is ugly all you want (it is), this little app delivers. And you could use it as well to replace the built-in client's chat capabilities as it covers a lot of those too: MSN, ICQ, Google Talk, Twitter, Yahoo, AIM, and it has Skype Voice and chat support built in too....I hope some skype people will jump in and say their experiences with it.

I just don't know why this hasn't been received better. A simple dpkg -i from root is all that's required in Diablo. (edit: assuming you have it's required dependencies as someone pointed out later in the thread. Try using the N810.install if you have unmet dependencies.)

http://212.143.134.14/repository/dis...63-1_armel.deb

i tried it a while back but was unable to press 1 to answer calls through google voice. has fring made it possible to press 1 to answer yet? plus having the built in ip/sip client in presence seemed simple to connect and stay connected in the back ground. call quality can be iffy but as I stated this was the only client that I was able tio hit 1 to answer

If you use Google Voice, you can turn that "press one" option off now.

i understand that but it will not be functional for me then. I have google voice ringing my home number, ata with gizmo5 at home and my n810. If you disable the 1 to answer and one of my numbers are not in service, the phone will only ring once b4 that services message answers, making it unusable.

My question still stands, can I press 1 to answer with fring yet?

***Edit you can install it easily from this link

http://www.fring.com/linux/n810.install

As far as I can tell, Fring's dialpad + your fingers != DTMF tones. :/

Edit:
...though I'm told soon Google will be making that voice-operable, ie you can say "yes" to answer or the like...

Are you sure it works as a real sip client or does it go through fring gateways?
According to http://www.fring.com/fring_is/how_fring_works/ the latter seems true, and I'm not especially eager to disclose my login details to a third party.

I'm looking through their 25-page (seriously) user manual for the N810:
http://www.fring.com/support/user_gu...nual_Linux.pdf

..."You are now logged in to your SIP Service and should now be able to make outgoing calls through your SIP provider."...

I'm confused, if it were going through their servers, how would I be able to receive calls via my SIPphone / GV nums? I suppose watching outbound traffic might be able to give a clearer answer to the question.

Weird, I've never had a quality problem with the default SIP client and sipphone.com together. The only problem I might get is a delay but that's about it.

i have had their built in noise caneler mute me in mid convo before but its rare. I think it only functions when you are using it as a speaker phone and not with the headset

My _common_ (read: 99%) experience with the built-in client is that either 1. the app does not ring until minutes have passed since the call was placed, or 2. It rings within ten seconds, I answer, and there is nothing but crickets for about ten seconds. Finally the call will begin to stutter in, but it's nearly unintelligible and I can't convince anyone to stay on the phone with me for long.

So far my tests with fring have proven some of my friends can't tell the difference, even when I am using it over EDGE (and that's with a 400-900 ms ping!)

The one major drawback that I can find: You MUST have a network connection when you initially start the app. If you start the app with no link, it will sit on a (blocking) pop-up until you click cancel. DAMN. But once it has gotten past the initial connect, it will happily go offline with you and reconnect when the proper dbus message comes through. Very nice.

If I were smarter I'd figure out how to convince it with dbus that it is online long enough to escape that window. Then it would just fall into it's next offline-handling routine (that doesn't have a window that blocks you from doing ANYTHING on the tablet until it's done) and all would be good.