Ah yes, sipphone.com, I remember you well. Good call!

I had sworn off Gizmo mainly due to a quirky and not well supported client on the PC, though the account seemed to work quite well.

Can the gizmo account work with other sip clients? I may use this for sip to sip calling if it's the case (my current provider charges for this)....


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Vorrupt

Gizmo account is just a product offered by Sipphone, they have instructions on how to use other clients on their website.

There are also the various betamax clones (not all support sip but most do, by picking carefully you can have very good rates both calling landlines and mobiles), vyke (a flat rate of 4 cents per call to most destinations), eutelia (useful if you need a free geographic inbound number in italy).

I'm not sure if its been made official, but I would really like to see the OVI store apps available for the N900. I feel that this will help break it out of a niche market into the mainstream. In fact, bring on the entire OVI she-bang.


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corrupt.ovi.com

yup, most sip accounts work well with the built in internet call app, for instance

Here's a pretty neat N900 software wish:

Since the N900 (at least I think) will come stock with:

1) a compass and accelerometer (orientation),
2) GPS (location),
3) 3D acceleration (rendering),
4) a camera (view),
5) and HSPA (anywhere network),

it has all the ingredients for an amazing augmented reality system!

Imagine holding the N810 as if a transparent piece of glass in the open, and seeing floating markers in the distance over the landscape, or information about what you're pointing it towards (description, history, position markers, etc). With HSPA, the tablet can automatically download the augmented reality objects from a centralised server, for a seamless user experience. It can also grab the positions of visible 'users' for neat social apps or form the basis of 'geo-games' (consider this term coined). For virtual graffiti, users could 'tag' an area with art or information.

This would also make an AMAZING star gazing app. Imagine being able to aim the tablet and 'zoom' in on distant nebulae as if it were a telescope, or see the surface of the moon in high detail! My heart beats at the thought!

Just start the app, aim the tablet, and view a virtual world juxtaposed with reality!

What do you think?


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AugmentedCorruption

Dude, you're trippin' me out. I like it. Then I want my room covered with OLED wallpaper for playback.

Nokia research center has already done work with augmented reality, so it might even come directly from Nokia whe the devices are actually up to the task.

Of course it's also a possibility that they already have the tech ready, but haven't been able to make a viable business out of it, so they're holding it back

Sounds interesting, though you'd probably need to do starmap recognition to know which way you're pointing (azimuth should be ok from the accelerometers, but depending on which way the compass is orientated (and assuming it has one) it might not work properly when held up like that).

In any case it sounds doable and pretty cool (assuming the camera is able to see at least some stars tpo do the direction matching, which depends on its internals)

There's already a star map app isn't there? I wonder how hard it would be to hack heading and azimuth input into (from compass, accelerometer, starmap watching, etc.) that....

Anyway, cool idea

I think QGil actually mentioned something similar in a thread some time ago. While it should be fairly easily done as a generic application, within it's own reference system (as a 'window'), it might not be that easy to link it with actual coordinates - e.g. point at a planet or star and see the relevant star map/info. The N900 lacks a compass you have on your list, AFAIK and that makes establishing reference points hard, especially if you're not moving.