At 23 Jul 2008 16:22:44 -0700 SMS wrote:

> > Besides, it's all academic anyway- I have it on good Oxythority than in
5
> > years all cellphone companies will be out of business and we'll all be
> > VoIPing each other for free on our iPhones over free nationwide WiFi...
>
> You mean you're not doing that already?

Only when convenient- my Windows Mobile phone, (an unlocked AT&T Tilt) can
do Skype and SIP VoIP (I use a Voicestick account for SIP.) I've
configured my T-Mobile service to forward to my VoIP account when
unavailable, which gives me Visual Voicemail (unanswered GSM calls roll to
my VoIP provider who then instantly e-mails the .wav file to my push
account.) The added benefit of this is if I'm somewhere where I have WiFi
but lousy or no cell service (my hotel room in Bellevue, NE last month, for
example) I leave the phone's WiFi on and VoIP client running and the
incoming T-Mo calls I would've missed seamlessly ring in on the VoIP line,
and I can answer them. Sort of my "roll-your-own" T-Mo Hotspot@Home service.

Compared to my old 200MHz OMAP HTC Wizard, which didn't have the horsepower
to do VoIP well without potentially dangerous overclocking, the 400MHz Tilt
hums along fine with VoIP.