Comments on: Nokia 6136, Motorola A910 and other UMA phones. What OEM’s aren’t telling anyone

By: Unwired View / UMA capable Nokia 8086 is coming to U.S. soon

Unwired View / UMA capable Nokia 8086 is coming to U.S. soon — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:55:52 +0000

[...] It may be look ugly but it’s got one cool thing going for it. Nokia 6086 is the latest UMA cellphone introduced by Finnish cellphone giant. What’s so cool about UMA? Well it’s another word to say this cellphone has got Wi-Fi connectivity. With a bang. If your wireless carrier supports UMA services, you can switch between GSM and Wi-Fi networks without even dropping a call. And if you have a data service plan, so far available only in Europe, your talking costs can be reduced accordingly. [...]

By: Unwired View » Apple’s iPhone mobile phone within a year?

Unwired View » Apple’s iPhone mobile phone within a year? — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:31:52 +0000

[...] But with the advent of UMA technologies and Wi-Fi enabled cellphones the things might be changing. [...]

By: stace

stace — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:45:29 +0000

I am not sure that we disagree here on something. My point was that VoIP at least seems too unreliable, PC based or not. Especially here in Europe, where there isn’t as many VoIP options.

UMA takes nothing away from current VoIP providers. It only gives them and us additional options.

With UMA I can have the cheapest plan from my wireless provider for backup and call forwarding and use VoIP for all other needs.

Yes my model conslidates everything into a single handset. But why is it a bad thing?

I can have Vonage, Sunrocket, Skype and Gtalk on my mobile phone at the same time. And I don’t have to give people my mobile phone number. I can give some of them my Vonage number, others can have my Gtalk or Skype ID and talk to the answering machine. All the calls can be forwarded to me when I choose so.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:16:49 +0000

Sure free VoIP is nice and I use it a lot to talk to friends all over the world. But to use them as a real telephone replacement? Sorry, too cumbersome. What if Iâ€™m not at my computer when a phone call comes in? What if my PC is turned off? What if I left my headphone jack in PC and all the calls are muted? What if my Internet line is down?

You make it sound like VoIP is ONLY a computer based solution. Sunrocket, Vonage, etc. are not computer based VoIP solutions, and you completely disregard this fact. My VoIP will forward to my cell phone in the event of a power failure, internet congestion, etc. Additionally, your perfect model of the phone world consolidates all phone communication into a single handset, and therefore a single phone number. Sorry, but I don’t want EVERYONE in the world having the number to my mobile. Let them talk to my answering machine if they want to sell me something.