A good smartphone app for Android or BlackBerry

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A good smartphone app for Android or BlackBerry

Postby sncbhle18 » 11/15/2012

Hey folks,

I currently have the Freephoneline service and I only got the softphone variant of it. I'm planning to get a Smartphone in the next couple of months and I'm planning to use that smartphone configured with Freephoneline on it. I recently signed up with Dell Voice as well (albeit using a different e-mail address).

I wanted to know which particular smartphone app (for a BlackBerry or Android) would you people suggest? I understand that if I want to utilise a third-party VOIP app, then I have to get what's called a VOIP unlock key. I know Freephoneline does that, but I heard that Dell Voice is no longer doing that practice.

Any suggestions to my situation?

I also wanted to know this (this may be complicated to some, but only I can understand it):

1) Is it possible to have a single VOIP unlock key - and configure that VOIP unlock key on all third-party apps that I intend to use? (i.e. I want to use X-Lite or 3CX on one computer at one time, then I want to use a third-party app on a smartphone at another time, like when I'm not near my computer and such).

2) Can the situation listed on my 1st point co-exist simultaneously (at the same time)?
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Re: A good smartphone app for Android or BlackBerry

Postby tbrummell » 11/16/2012

1. 3CX & Bria are both good choices for Android, as are CSipSimple and .... Using any 3rd party app will require you purchase the VoIP unlock key from FPL. I'm not a DV user, so I don't know if they still have the unlock key or not.

2. You can only register 1 device at a time to receive incoming calls. That being said, both apps could be used at sperate locations at 1 time, but you will never know which one may receive the incoming call. But if you only need to make a quick outbound call, this is at least possible. If you want to use 2 devices at the same time you'd need some type of PBX, such as RentPBX, or .....
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Re: A good smartphone app for Android or BlackBerry

Postby akram » 06/07/2013

Can you provide settings configuration for any one of the good third party mobile android app to use it with FPL unlock key?
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