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Recently, my phone bill has been rising, so I was considering to go completely free by combination of services: grandcentral + gizmo + WiFi + bluetooth headset. Since I am almost always within a WiFi environment, a mobile device such as N800/N810 will make things absolutely free. All incoming phone calls come via grandcentral, and if I am within WiFi, I would pickup via Gizmo on the N800, otherwise I'll pick it up via my (prepaid) cell phone. For outgoing calls, I would call via grandcentral and Gizmo again. It's a free VoIP solution with backup via a prepaid phone. (You don't need to pay anything if you don't call/recieve anything for a prepaid phone) However, there are a couple of serious problems. The most annoying thing is the caller presentation feature of grandcentral, which cannot be disabled at the moment. I have to press 1 to pickup the phone, which means I have to unlock the N800/N810, (one hardware key stroke and a touch screen stroke), then click answer call button, click app minimize, and then click 1 to get the phone call. I searched the forums to find an elegant solution, but there seems to be none. (Not to mention the bluetooth headset button will be useless.) The second problem is the WiFi login problem. Whenever I go from one access point (AP) to another, I would need to relogin to the university (yes, I'm on campus) account to use the network. I'm sure somebody wrote a script to do this seemlessly but I couldn't find one so far. So, I just decided to buy a headset for home, and I'll continue to use Gizmo with my PCs and labtop. No fancy internet tablet PC for me! (Yay~ I saved more money!) |
