On Thursday 07 April 2022 14:16:38 J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2022-04-06 17:56:58 William Morder via tde-users wrote:
If I could connect my phone to my computer, and use it over my computer's wifi connection, that would be very cool. Just sayin' ...
Just picking your brains for ideas here, folks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_over_IP#Consumer_market https://duckduckgo.com/?q=linux+voip+client&atb=v301-1&ia=web example: https://linphone.org/
Leslie
Years ago I tried VoIP, and I believe that I remember trying linphone (among others). None of them seemed to work too well, although for a while there was one ... dialpad? ... that sort of worked, except that back then bandwidth was more of an issue. Although I could make calls and it worked, the lag was 20 or 30 seconds sometimes (from my speaking to the other's hearing me), so that it was impossible to carry on a conversation; always trying to figure out what we were talking about, never coherent.
This was in my pre-Linux days, before 2006 or so. I was trying phone over internet since at least 2000.
Then smartphones took off, and I like the convenience of carrying a phone in my pocket, just not some other things that they do. And I could connect my phone to my computer, transfer files back and forth, etc., but could not use my smartphone over my computer's internet connection.
Now I see linphone can be installed on an Android? Not sure how it works, but I'm willing to give it a go. Looks like I might need to find that old headphone/microphone combo, and get some more attachments for the laptop.
Bill