[asterisk-users] using Wifi smartphones as SIP clients

[Hans Witvliet]

On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 19:03 +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 12:03:17PM +0200, Bart Coninckx wrote:
> >What about phones like the Unidata WPU-7800 (
> >http://www.udcsystems.com/product/wpu7800.php) ? Does anyone have
> >experience with those? Would these also suffer from connection
> >losses?
> 
> I've been using a UTStarcom GF-210 for the last year and more as my
> personal phone - dual-mode 2G GSM and SIP/802.11. Sound quality on SIP
> is slightly better than 2G, getting it to talk to Asterisk is no problem
> at all, but certainly if you're moving from one wifi device to another
> you will get dropped calls. If that's your use case, it's going to be
> that way whatever hardware you use - I haven't seen any implementations
> of 802.11F or 802.11r in the field.
> 

Hope that these are better that the utstar F1000:
Keep on re-chargibg as battery is empty in no-time, and security is
lousy; just  wep, no wpa.

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