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  1. #1
    Larry
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    I’m still on the hunt for a WORKING WM5 PDA that doesn’t crash every hour
    like the Dell x51v did, so I can run Skype from wifi and/or cellphone
    internet when I’m away from my own wifi network. I have lots of Skype
    friends across the planet and would like to have direct access to them
    without SkypeIn forwarding their calls to my Alltel cell using minutes.

    If anyone has a Blackjack under Windows Mobile, even without Skype, I’d
    like to hear from you as to how bad it crashes and how long the battery
    will run it between chargers. The Axim x51v wouldn’t run any longer than
    my laptop away from a power source. How awful.

    Thanks in advance.....looks like a really nice replacement for my trusty
    V60i that might give me Skype-on-the-roady, direct.....if it doesn’t CRASH!

    Larry
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    Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on who's for dinner.
    Liberty is when the sheep has his own gun.



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  2. #2
    Diamond Dave
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    Re: Anyone running Skype on a Samsung Blackjack i607 PDAphone?

    On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:18:37 -0500, Larry <[email protected]> wrote:

    >Thanks in advance.....looks like a really nice replacement for my trusty
    >V60i that might give me Skype-on-the-roady, direct.....if it doesn’t CRASH!


    I've seen reviews of those Skype Wi-Fi phones on Amazon. Most people
    say that they're not very good. They may work OK on a home network,
    but don't try to use them on the road because they probably won't
    work.

    I've also heard that battery life is bad on those phones too.

    I'm not a fan of VOIP anyhow. Sounds like you're eating mashed
    potatoes all the time. Worse than a conversation with someone on a
    phone with Stinkular.

    Dave




  3. #3
    Larry
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    Re: Anyone running Skype on a Samsung Blackjack i607 PDAphone?

    Diamond Dave <[email protected]> wrote in
    news:[email protected]:

    > I've also heard that battery life is bad on those phones too.


    It'll run a day without charging IF it's not constantly trying to connect
    to a non-existent AP, which runs the transmitter a lot. Unlike a
    cellular phone, these wifi units do a lot of broadcast packets to keep
    their links active that your cellphone doesn't do. If you're leaving a
    location's AP, turn the phone OFF until you get to the next AP. That
    solves the battery's shortness of breath. Cellphones also don't get
    constant contact list updates, who's online, what their contact status
    is, etc. You never have to reload a contact list on a Skype phone as
    it's stored on the server, not your phone. Wouldn't THAT be nice, the
    next time your cellphone ****s itself?! You logon the new phone, it
    connects and downloads your INTACT contact list with no programming
    nonsense. Even if you boot your Skype name on another's computer, you
    get your own contact list. Sometimes I have 4 copies of Skype running on
    one computer when friends are over here drinking up my English ale. All
    you need is enter is your username and password into a redundant copy.

    I'm amazed at how many open systems the little Netgear Skype phone will
    connect to in places like the malls, downtown (other systems than the
    city's free wifi which it connects to just fine), but it really needs
    some kind of webpage logon function to be really useful on-the-road as
    more and more hotspots have spam logon pages where you have to agree to
    something to get service...which is unnecessary but reality, so far. I'm
    working on the city marina to dump the logon page ads and just open their
    now-free marina wide hotspots. We don't need to know what company the
    marina uses to connect to the internet...(c;

    Around any home wifi system, WEP or open, it simply eats spotty
    cellular's shorts in service. There are no dead zones, no places where
    the damned cellphone alerts on voicemail but fails to ring an incoming
    call, etc. Short of putting the phone in a screen room, the Netgear
    Skype phone has solid service within 300' of my house. Instead of the
    signal going to **** when you walk indoors with it in your pocket, the
    signal goes to full scale.

    >
    > I'm not a fan of VOIP anyhow. Sounds like you're eating mashed
    > potatoes all the time. Worse than a conversation with someone on a
    > phone with Stinkular.
    >


    I don't understand this comment, but I haven't bought the other, more
    expensive, VoIP service. Skype uses broadband, MUCH wider bit rates than
    any cellphone's pitiful 8K or 11Kbps codec-to-boost-profits does. Hell,
    Skype in Verizon sounds better than Verizon from an Aircard! We've been
    experimenting with that, in town and on-the-road in Florida, now that VZW
    has EVDO up and running so Skype's fast codec doesn't overrun 1X's dial-
    up-modem speed. On EVDO Skype sounds great from an Aircard
    laptop....completely eliminating the old roaming games.

    Skypers calling my home system, either on the computer or the little
    Skype phone ask me what that ticking noise is. There's a pendulum wall
    clock above my desk. It's barely audible tick is loud and clear, even
    that short an audio pulse.

    Another thing we've all wanted was more than one cellphone on the same
    number, something the companies have lied for years and told us was
    impossible. I have yet to find out how many Skypes I can run
    simultaneously on just one account name. Skype doesn't care. They all
    connect, they all receive the contact list from Skype's servers and they
    all ring at once when called, either from Skype's landline number or
    direct from another Skype. They can even call themselves...like intercom
    mode!...(c;

    The only time I hear the sound degrade is when someone is trying to run
    Skype on too little bandwidth....under about 150Kbps where it runs out of
    data. Before EVDO, the aircards running Skype were awful.

    The Skype phone or on the computer is not meant to be your primary comm
    system. It's one helluva toy and chit-chat-with-your-honey for almost no
    money gadget anywhere there's wifi....


    Larry
    --
    Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on who's for dinner.
    Liberty is when the sheep has his own gun.



  4. #4
    Diamond Dave
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    Re: Anyone running Skype on a Samsung Blackjack i607 PDAphone?

    On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:13:04 -0500, Larry <[email protected]> wrote:


    >The Skype phone or on the computer is not meant to be your primary comm
    >system. It's one helluva toy and chit-chat-with-your-honey for almost no
    >money gadget anywhere there's wifi....


    That pretty sums it up right there. Nice toy, not ready for prime
    time.

    Too much echo, garble, etc.

    Dave




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