On 19 Apr, 20:51, andy <andy.gg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 19, 1:15 pm, "Anti Spam Bloke" <dnsblfee...@emailssl.com>
> wrote:

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> It must be said that some of these journalists are a bit slow - did
> they source it off each other, or did some read it here when I posted
> it 3 days ago?


I have just had the pleasure of trying to set up an N95 on VOIP.
The phone was originally bought by my boss from Vodaphone, and as
reported it came with the
Internet calls feature removed. As my boss is not one to take this
sort of restriction quietly, he now has
a Nokia N95 which has the Internet calls facility fully restored, at
which point it was handed to me to make it
work with the company's trixbox.

I have had partial success, the Nokia will work fine on internal calls
between extensions, but up to now it
refuses to work correctly on PSTN calls through the trixbox. The main
symptoms are a loss of voice
transmission and call control from the Nokia, which leads me to
suspect that there is an issue with the codecs
it is using. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way of altering
which codecs the phone uses.

Throughout the fiddling about trying to set the phone up, I have to
say that its software is not very stable yet.

I suffered frequent crashes whilst navigating the various menus, even
settings which had nothing to do with
VOIP. It reminded me very much of all that is bad about the older
microsoft operating systems.

The firmware used is from Nokia themselves, as Vodaphone apparently
refused to remove or alter their limited version.

I find it annoying that a company should be allowed to limit
functionality on a product which they do not manufacture
simply to force users to be tied to their own services.

Alister.