Wi-fi with uma

This is just my best guess from my 2 years that I worked for Tmo. And my knowledge of how we had to add the Hotspot feature and the Visual Voicemail feature. There was a Hotspot calling feature, but all that did was provide unlimited minutes. UMA calling works just fine without any extra features on the line or special equipment.

Just the phone any any wifi connection. I hope it sure does come to the G2 as it will confirm my reasons for leaving my Bold I love the uma on my bold, its the only thing I would have missed. My question is if WiFi calling will use up minutes on our plan.

I am assuming it will. Did UMA use up minutes or was it unlimited calling? This clearly shows the Vibrant screen shot on the pictures. Look at the battery icon and the 3g icon, distinctively the Vibrant. And even the menu bar across the top if the tutorial is the vibrant theme.

I am writing this from my Vibrant. Nice catch. So at least they are being honest with us up front. This will be a big help at work where the basement of the building I work in is like a bomb shelter.

I liked the UMA on Blackberry mostly for 2 reasons. In my basement, no reception and the gym, same thing. I would just hook into their wifi and I could use my phone.

I would love for this to come to the G2. UMA is needed more than ever, so I am really disappointed that there is no autohand off when leaving the WiFi area. Phones need to be easier to use since smart phones. I am going to cross my fingers and hope Vibrant [for me] and Slide [for the wifey] are included in this update. Maybe why its taking so long? BTW; by toggling on and off the conflict between the network and wifi over data traffic is solved as well and with a 5 gig cap on network data, this is a boon to using it on wifi.

It will hand off all right. Seems like it would a great feature to have in low reception areas like your home. This is awesome! When I travel overseas I always use wifi calling back to the US. I hope it is on the Mytouch HD or someone can get it and make it work on the N1. It is free to call the US. I usually pick up a prepaid sim for local use and put my TMO sim back in when I am on wifi. I use my Samsung Katalyst. It works great. But still….

Only time will tell tho. Thats the beauty of Android, Vibrant, its just an app. Once its out there in the wild, the android mod community will figure out how to rip it off the phone and distribute it. They work fine. Omg I am running around the room.

Plz let this b true because I very no coverage at school or my girls apt and I ready dont want to switch to Verizon! Ok so, lets take his article and tie it in with the following article. This is really good news eh? Only issue may be one of network security I suppose.

Super wi-fi will require a different radio. Not yet. Built-in, ever present, automatic, and mostly seamless. This smells a lot more like integrated VOIP. However, for those times when reception is at a minimum, this is a great feature for T-mo to add.

Also, this is much different from truphone because people can call your regular cell number to contact you and vice versa. No big deal to me. This is probably a stupid question but will texting work over wifi too?

All communications will go through the wifi connection, yes. Anything to inprove reception in T-Mobiles spotty coverage area is a good thing. After all if your in a rual area, then most of the time your outta luck, but with the UMA feature you can get coverage. Good job t-mobile. I have zero coverage issues so I do not need this but I know there are people who do need this and it is long overdue.

My coverage is most always four to five bars anywhere I go around here and at work and home but one day I am sure it will come in handy. Had to leave an area in a convention center to a place that would connected 3g tower. Ummm, what? I will hold onto hope that someone will enable the handoff feature for this service in the future. We have a huge underground lab at work where no cell service works at all. But we have an excellent full feature WiFi network available.

If it turns out that it:. Would be a huge disadvantage if it doesnt. If so, then this resolves a big dilemma for me, and means I can move to Android and still stay with T-Mobile which I really want to do! Multiple search engine options perhaps? Never tried a 2. Apps can be written to plug into that and provide their own search from the search bar.

TMo is currently in settlement discussions with Calypso wireless that owns the patent to UMA technology — wifi to cellular handoffs. T-mobile is being extra vigilant about this lack of handoff because of the lawsuit. Use SipDroid as your client. If you have a rooted device, you can use barnacle wifi and wirelessly tether to your computer and call over skype!

Unrelated to this post, but love the new look of the blog, makes it way easier reading on my iPhone. Keep up the great work here guys. To be able to pull a call off my wi-fi is perfect and the biggest draw for me to T-Mobile. That is helpful but would it be charging you minutes? What it does is allow you to use is your current cell number over WIFI with all features and functions included like usual, but you cannot move out of the WIFI range.

So it is like going outside you house to make a call if you have crappy signal, but once you step inside your house you loose connection. I find this to be completely and totally satisfactory. That is it exactly.

Not true, as far as I understand it. It can do everything except the handoffs so it is just like UMA except for the handoffs. If you guys want a mid- range phone without having to pay for data service plan just get the Nuron! I used to think no hand-off would be no big deal. They are doing an addon for Android so it will be lacking in the handoff since they cannot integrate it like the BB without reworking the Android OS at the core.

No change from being on the cell network. If not it seems neutered to me. My BB Curve would seamlessly transition from cell to wifi during calls. It worked great most of the time. The coverage may not be as expansive when I travel to rural parts of the state to visit clients, but for the most part, the Chicago and suburban areas are very well covered by the provider. Research in Motion has posted a nice list of WiFi capable Blackberries currently on the market which you can reference.

I personally use a Bold which works extremely well, but the newer model and many others are also on the list. If you are planning on buying a used model phone, or getting one as a hand me down, call Tmobile in advance to ensure that they currently support that phone on their network. The largest roadblock to a model being allowed on their network is what bands of 2G and 3G it supports — and this varies between models of Blackberry.

Third, ensure you ask your provider to enable UMA calling on your plan. At least for TMobile, you need to make an effort to call them and ask that UMA calling be turned on for your plan. Once this is turned on, UMA calls will show as free minutes when you make or receive calls on the network when in a wireless hotspot. A few caveats still exist even with all of the above in place.

While you have full control over your wireless box at home, note that some public hotspots namely ones that require pre-login before you can browse the web on their network will block UMA capability.

There are a few technical details that most home wireless routers already have turned on and open for UMA to work properly; for security reasons, some public places decide to restrict this capability. Your Blackberry will also try to auto-test the connection it is on to see if the internet speed is fast enough to support UMA properly. UMA is a different kind of beast that when setup properly is a nice way to save money on your phone bill.

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