Nokia Adds One More To Eseries
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2 Numbers in 1 phone?
The press release said that it hs "the ability to have two phone numbers in one phone". What exactly does that mean? Some GSM operators allow 2 lines on 1 phone but this seemed different. (How I wish it allowed two SIMs to work simultaneously...)
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a data number and a voice number is what i suspect they mean.
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yeah i think so, 1 number, 1 data number so u wont be kicked off the internet when someone calls like you do with sprint
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it has nothing to do with that. they are talking about the fact that these phones can work with certain advanced pbx systems that do VOIP so you can get your calls using voip and your regular calls using GSM on the same phone.
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Voice over IP. Essentially a phonecall that uses data instead of straight voice. The audio in a conversation is converted into data packets and sent via the data network as opposed to the GSM voice network.
Hence the ability to have two numbers. One received through VoIP and the other through traditional GSM voice.
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dddMay 18, 2006, 8:43 PM
Unless you do it over a Bluetooth PAN, but how common is that...
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You can do VOIP through EDGE, it doesn't require all that much bandwidth.
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