Monday, June 16, 2008

Cheap VOIP service for India

Recently I found out a very cheap VOIP service for calling India, its called Xeloq (http://www.xeloq.com/). Here you have to purchase a prepaid card for EUR 12.5, 25 ..... , they will deduct 5% service fee if you use credit card. The calling rates are really cheap (.041 EUR/min).

Some highlights :
1. Best part, it totally uses data connection ( if using on mobile GPRS, 3G..)
2. I have nokia E61i, hence I have configured the SIP settings to use this service.
3. They have per second billing, so if your call ends in 10 sec. you pay just Rs 0.50 :)
4. Xeloq provides a software which you can install on you pc and make calls thru net.

-Abhi

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Skype 2.2 Installation on Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 SE PocketPC

Skype 2.2 is not supported on Windows Mobile 2003 as on the I-Mate Jam, but there is a workaround to get it going. This problem arises as the active sync given by I-Mate does not recognize the version of skype setup( which is compiled only for Windows 5.0 ).

Steps:
Do the following :Install the new version (4.5) of Active Sync on your PC from here

Install skype 2.2.0.37 from here and you are done !!!!

There is a catch in this situation. If you sync your mails etc then your other programs won't be able to synchronize using this upgraded version of Active Sync. Hence after skype is installed its recommended to uninstall 4.5 and re-install the version provided by you mobile company.

-Abhi.


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