Software Options for Pocket PC 2003

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Aug 18, 2006 Posts: 1

I have one SoftPhone account with Vonage, but I want to use it with my Pocket PC.

I read on different forums about the SJPhone and the X-Ten software for Pocket PC, but it looks like those companies do not want to publish their version that work with Pocket PC and Vonage any more.

The best thing that I found was the SJPhone for pocket PC, but the link for the Vonage profile does not Work any more, so I did some configuration making my own profile, and I am able to register on the SIP server but when I dial, I get “The lines are temporary busy” message and if I call to my number, It rings, but I hear nothing in both ways.

The Xten software 2.2 is not longer in www.xten.com so I was not able to try that software

Can some one recommend me the best software for my Pocket PC, and the configuration Please?

My device is HP Ipaq 6515 with Windows Pocket PC 2003 SE

Posts: 3 · New Forum Member Joined: Sep 23, 2006 Posts: 3

Hi Folks,

I feel for all of you who are frustrated by the lack of useable software out there that supposedly enables your Pocket PC to work as a softphone via WiFi. Problem is, the third party software providers, i.e. X-Ten, SJLabs, WiFive, etc., are small companies not held to any standards of accountability and therefore don't have to (and don't) provide any sort of support for their products. I have a softphone line through Vonage, and depending on what day of the week it is, one program will work and the others won't and so on. In fact, it was only several months ago that SJLabs came out with a preconfigured program for the Pocket PC (WM2003SE and WM5) which worked fine on my PDA2k. Today however, it doesn't work anymore (corporate politics between Vonage and SJLabs I'm sure). So I deleted the program and went back to the original X-Ten Lite 2.2 software that came out about four years ago. Interestingly enough, the X-Ten Lite stopped working on my PDAs over two years ago; but guess what? It works now albeit not very well. I ended up deleting that program too since it's not even supported anymore by X-Ten. X-Ten isn't even in business anymore. Now it's CounterPoint or some such nonsense. While CounterPoint promised a new PPC program would be available back in July, it still has not surfaced.

Bottom line: please folks, I beseech you, don't waste your time fooling around with iffy third party programs which are long on promise and real short on delivery. Because of the lack of industry standards; the fact there's an absence of accountability, and the fact one wastes hours and hours and hours trying to get these stupid programs to work even marginally, it's simply not worth your time to try and use your PPC with Vonage (who themselves have no interest in supporting PPCs -- they don't even know what one is). The whole Voip thing is kind of unreliable to begin with, so to try and pipe it through a PPC is going to do nothing more than cause you a bunch of headaches. Even if you're able to get it working, it'll only work for a short time (like everything else in the computer world).

I speak from mounds of experience with these things, and my sagest advice would be, save your time, money and effort; go with something like Skype, BaraBlu or the many other PPC Voip WiFi/GSM/GPRS programs and forget about trying to use your PPC with Vonage; at least for the foreseeable future.

Kindest Regards,
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