Posts Tagged 'SvSIP'

How to Use Your Nintendo DS as a Phone and Make Free Calls

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Fulfilling the promise I made in the post announcing the VoIP client for Nintendo DS, I will describe the steps needed to turn a plain Nintendo DS into a Wi-fi phone (the nPhone!)

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Making VoIP on Nintendo DS a reality: new open source SIP client available

SvSIP, a new VoIP client for Nintendo DS is making quite a stir! To name a few, Tom Keating, Engadget and Gizmodo also picked it up.

Congratulations are certainly in order for Samuel Vinson, for porting pjsip to Nintendo DS. I am going to try it out myself, as soon as I reconfigure my wi-fi back to WEP. (Update: Here’s my post on using pjsip on Nintendo DS)

And instead of a screen-shot, I’m going to give you one better: a complete video guide! (video created by therealbiglou) It demonstrates how to set it up, with final thoughts: “sound quality is very good”. The negatives include “low speaker volume” and “hard interface to follow”.

We’ll work with Samuel to tweak the volume The volume can now be controlled through a configuration setting, and regarding the interface… yeah I guess dumping a log file on screen is a million miles away from an iPhone! Oops I mentioned the i-word, I’m sure people will think it’s there for keyword stuffing.

But seriously, some comments on digg already saying it’s an “iPhone killer”. What do you think?