Comments on: Nokia Dumps VoIP (Update)

By: Ralf

Ralf — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:47:10 +0000

I had a conversation about this with the German Nokia Support. The guy on the phone admitted, that they removed the client due to pressure from the network carriers, but they obviously didn’t want to make an official statment about this. However, he said that Nokia is listening to their customers – which is a good thing. So I can only urge you guys to sign this petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/s60v5sip/petition.html

Another inquiry at Nokia USA yielded, that Nokia is in fact “planning” to release the SIP client on the N97 in H2/2009. Don’t know why I got 2 crontradicting responses. Either way I think it would be great if we could get as many signatures as possible. Please share the link!

By: get stuffed nokia

get stuffed nokia — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:40:55 +0000

Get stuffed Nokia – the way you have been treating customers this year is nothing short of contempt – buggy firmware releases, outdated OS’s and dragged out ‘promises’ and ‘hints’ at some amazing ‘future’ that brings only REDUCED features, not added features! The N97 actually has LESS specs (not even graphics acceleration???). I was a die hard Nokia fan since the N95 but I have been put off from upgrading. It’s just the arrogant attitude that really annoys me.

By: ridiculous

ridiculous — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:31:45 +0000

this is ridiculous. way to go moronokia!

By: Nigel Jones

Nigel Jones — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:31:02 +0000

No news from Nokia on this. Very frustrating.

By: clemens

clemens — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:54:32 +0000

RS,

fully agree.

By: eric

eric — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:27:20 +0000

yeah agreed with make , why leave sip stack, then removed sip client, we cant call anymore via SIP provider / N96 to sell back to Nokia loll

By: RS

RS — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:41:38 +0000

Make,

Yes I hear N79 and N85 will have the nice Nokia voip client. So did the N95 and N95 8 GB. My question is why did the N96 get ignored? I saw the SIP stack on the N96 at the store so I assumed it would have what my old N95 had. Then I got home and got slapped by Nokia in the face after using their phones for 13 years.

Improved SIP stack my arse. What good is an improved SIP stack if there’s no client to use it? If Nokia don’t make the VoIP client available via download/firmware for the N96 in the very near future, they’ve definitely lost me and the people I influence.

By: Make

Make — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:41:29 +0000

N85 and following products having voip will support new version of the integrated voip called voip rel 3.0 see http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/resources/technologies/voice_over_IP/voip_support_in_nokia_devices.html

By: Garrett Smith

Garrett Smith — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:07:23 +0000

@ Make:

What makes that real and what is above fake?

I said the same thing they did, except there is no sugar coating. Nokia removed the SIP client – not the stack – but you can’t use the stack because you don’t have a client!

Therefore VoIP functionality was removed for the normal everyday end-user.

By: Make

Make — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:13:23 +0000

See this post on Nokia’s Support Discussions Board for some real info. http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/discussions/board/message?board.id=smartphones&message.id=111954