New York World Phone

Finally I found a perfect sip softphone for my SDA.
Compared to the following softphones, go-sip has a lot of advantages for my SDA and actually works.

GO-SIP(from Peer2Phone): The required space and memory is acceptable. It works with my SDA seamlessly perfectly. I can use all features of it. I though it was in french because the guide on the website is in French. After I installed it, I see everything in English which is good for me. When we are tring to download, we need pick a brand or operator and device reference. I picked Tmobile as it’s operator. I don’t see the SDA in the device reference, so I picked any one with HTC. I turns out it doesn’t matter. We need also put in a voip operator like Bewip. It turns out that we could set it for any service provider. To use it for other providers, I need choose “other” as the operator to activate it when I start it. (I chose manually, but it didn’t go through.)

After it’s activated, it runs. Then we need configure the settings for other service providers. I need restart it before it actually registers on my sip server.

After installation, it’ll be put in the startup. If you don’t want it to run automatically when you restart your phone, you can remove it from startup.

Besides voip calls, in the menu, there are some other features like my email, TV, maps, music etc.

On it’s website, it states “Telephone and multimedia free of charge unlimited 24 hours a day and 7 days a week !”. So it’s free. I made a test call, the sound seemed good. I’ll use it for longer and see how it goes.

Compared to Go-Sip, here are other softphones I tried.

BeWip: 1. Evaluation version. 2. Complicated installation. 3. Taking much space. 4. Limited specific service providers.
Actually, I didn’t make it work although I succeeded to install it.

SpeaQ: It’s for PDA although it can run on some smartphones. It’s very small which is good.
I installed it and registered it to my sip server, but I can’t press any buttons to make calls. And there are some other problems. If I go to home screen, SpeaQ will shutdown. Once I put in the settings, I can’t change it in the settings, instead I have to change the sipconfig.txt file.

Kapanga Softphone: It works with my SDA with some disadvantages as follows. It’s comparatively large. It put a lot of stuff in my phone, and takes much memory to run. I got some problems when I used it. I have to change the txt file if I need do any settings. Setting is a little complicated because there are a lot of pamarameters. The software main window doesn’t fit my screen perfectly. Maybe there’s a value to set the position of the window. I can’t go to home screen. To do that, the only way is to quit.

ESCSoftPhone: It’s IAX client and worked on my SDA. But what I used is demo version and expired very soon. Otherwise it’s not free. It’s very tight. Actually I’ll like it without considering money.

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