"Ryan" <ryan@news.fatboy.me.uk> wrote in message
news:TX9Mj.12341$ck.1946@newsfe30.ams2...
> Hi all.
>
> I am off to the States for a while shortly and want to keep in touch with
> family in the UK.
> I have a sipgate account so want to get a mobile phone type thing that
> works on WiFi that I can take with me - set it up with my sipgate account
> and carry it with me.
>
> Now, does any one have experience of any of the mobile phone type models
> (I have looked at this one: http://www.expansys.com/p.aspx?i=159243) and
> what type of speech quality could I expect if I am in the US and the
> family are in the UK.


I have a Nokia E65 (for which I paid less SIM Free than the phone in your
web link). It is also a tri-band phone.

Although I have found one or two free WiFi points, non of them would let me
make a SIP call. I had enough difficulty persuading my own router to allow
an outgoign call.


What I have found most useful is the Nokia maps which are free, and work
with an external iBlue 737 bluetooth GPS.

--
Michael Chare