Low Cost Calling for OpenMoko
So I have received my 'phone and spent some time doing the usual sshing in to it, making simple calls and the like, and overall am both happy and surprised at the feel of the 'phone, both physically (it is smaller and lighter than I expected, and its slightly strange shape does not make it harder to hold) and functionally (it's quite zippy, although I'm sure there are optimisations down the line that will make it even faster).
So, on to what to do with it. Well one of my personal bugbears is the inability to easily use lower-cost methods of calling. To do this without mangling your addressbook requires the ability to rewrite outgoing telephone numbers depending on its destination. So my first actual application will provide users with a way of deciding out to route their calls in various ways to reduce costs. I will need to gather some use cases for this so will be working through the various methods in the next week or so, but any comments on how you would like to see low cost calling implemented would be appreciated.
2 comments:
First of all, thanks for being so accessable and generous with your time and skill. I'm planning on purchasing the 0ctober version of the neo1973. I want my phone to work thru skype and thus i'd be able to avoid giving a carrier any money. That racquet is now obsolete in my mind. so, basically i am asking for a phone that will work on WiFi to make and answer all calls and thus cancel out the middle man. Is there a way to boost the wifi recption so it can get access from a mile or 2 away.
The next version of hardware will be coming with WiFi so Skype or similar should be an option. I believe that there are people already working on porting the various VoIP to OpenMoko.
In terms of WiFi reception I suspect that you'd need external equipment to be able to boost the signal that far, I'd check out the OpenMoko Wiki for details of ongoing hardware and software projects.
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