Re:An Experiment: My Life With A Nexus 7 As My Phone
by detst on Saturday January 05, 2013 @10:48PM
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> (and I wish it was possible to connect by SIP to google voice)
There was a time when you could connect Google Voice to Gizmo5 (SIP) but then Google bought them and disabled that functionality.
Re:An Experiment: My Life With A Nexus 7 As My Phone
by btgeekboy on Saturday January 05, 2013 @11:05PM
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If you have the time to mess around with Asterisk, it's doable on your own. That's a sizable "if" though.
Re:An Experiment: My Life With A Nexus 7 As My Phone
by brownbat on Sunday January 06, 2013 @02:32AM
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Wait, why hasn't someone made a kit for this and offered people free home phone service without a monthly fee?
Re:An Experiment: My Life With A Nexus 7 As My Phone
by justincormack on Sunday January 06, 2013 @07:21AM
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There are lots of SIP phone services. I use sipgate which covers many countries and have an old VoIP phone or use my mobile.
There are many great points in the article (and BTW I purchased the same cover - it has a magnet to turn the screen off when it closes and works a bit like an ipad cover) but there are some weird points. Well, a big one : no software phone by default.
Why should we need grooveip?
I have various SIP accounts, and on my laptop, I can use google voice to send call from the browser. I just wish the Nexus 7 had something better than "click to call" (to another device)
(and I wish it was possible to connect by SIP to google voice)
Just put some cash on your account and you can also send call.
The form factor is not really a problem - you just use the nexus 7 'differently'.