Phones and VoIP

[ciphergoth]

Two questions:

1) By any chance, does anyone have a spare tri- or quad-band phone I can use while I'm in SF? My SIM card has arrived and I have a phone I can use in this country, but it would be nice to have a phone while I'm away.

2) What's the best way to get a voice conversation between a Linux and a Windows machine? I have Ekiga installed under Linux and it seems to work, and I've got myself a SIP address, so one way would be to find a good SIP client for Windows. But perhaps I should be using something else altogether? I've Googled, of course, but one recommendation from someone who's been there is worth a thousand searches.

Comments

[nikolasco.livejournal.com]

Gizmo (http://www.gizmoproject.com/index.html) actually uses SIP. You can call Gizmo users using anything that takes SIP URLs via sip:user@proxy01.sipphone.com . Wengo (http://openwengo.com/) also uses SIP. It's users can be reached at sip:user@voip.wengo.fr . They're also open to letting you use clients besides theirs (thread (http://forum.wengo.com/viewtopic.php?t=1577)), which is open source anyway.

Skype is not SIP-based; it's very proprietary.