Comments on: FON Improves WiFi Log On

By: Francesco

Francesco — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:58:37 +0000

Hi all, I bought today an SMC wi-fi phone, but it doesn’t work exactly like belkin. I try to connect to my fon-ap , it ask me the account, so I insert the same account as I use to login fon website. It try to connect and after a while it turns off and start again. It continue like this ad libitum exactly like belkin phone, the phone is an SMC WSKP100. I thank you for ur help and hope u can give me some suggestions, Francesco

By: gio

gio — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 06:59:21 +0000

tempus fugit, but the upgrade still unavailable…

By: Doug Robbins

Doug Robbins — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:44:35 +0000

How long is a few days? Less than a few weeks?

Seriously though, when is the firmware upgrade for the SMC Phone going to be made available?

Regards,
Doug Robbins

By: Ton

Ton — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:21:43 +0000

Now this is good news!! Where and when can i get the .17??

Thanks,

Ton.

By: Martin Varsavsky

Martin Varsavsky — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:37:31 +0000

Hi Ernie,

We are uploading the firmware upgrade on our website in a few days so all you guys can get your phones upgraded. Thanks for the people that have been helping to test the evaluation beta version!

By: ernie

ernie — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:02:23 +0000

Hi all, Martin, Jordi Vallejo, David Froehlich,
I also have bought SMC Skype Phone for my Xtmas holidays in Spain, could you be so kind to share the recent beta firmware for the SMC Skype Phone from Jordi Vallejo which makes it possible to connect with all public FON hotspots?
Thanks and best regards

By: gio

gio — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:50:20 +0000

and the others?

By: David Froehlich

David Froehlich — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:33:40 +0000

Hello,
I just received the recent beta firmware for the SMC Skype Phone from Jordi Vallejo which makes it possible to connect with all public FON hotspots. And it actually works! I really have not thought that I would be able to skype home during my holidays for free, but now it is possible.
Big thanks to Martin for his great idea to build up such a worldwide wifi network and to Jordi who helped me personally, friendly and very fast in solving my problems.

Thank you all very much,
David

By: David Froehlich

David Froehlich — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:30:57 +0000

Hi all,
I have also bought the SMC Skype Phone espacially for my Rome-holidays after Christmas. But the dream of making free skype calls via fon hotspots in Rome seems not to be realistic. They say that there will be a new firmware in the future. But I bought this phone not for the future but for my holidays (December 27).
So, if fon is not able to provide a working firmware for the phone they offer, it would be very nice if the devicescape-software could be ported to the SMC Skype Phone. Many users would be very glad.
I think it should be possible to cooperate with SMC so they could provide you the sourcecode or whatever you need to port it to the phone.
If anybody has new information or even a working work-around, please let me know [dfroe(at>gmxHi all,
I have also bought the SMC Skype Phone espacially for my Rome-holidays after Christmas. But the dream of making free skype calls via fon hotspots in Rome seems not to be realistic. They say that there will be a new firmware in the future. But I bought this phone not for the future but for my holidays (December 27).
So, if fon is not able to provide a working firmware for the phone they offer, it would be very nice if the devicescape-software could be ported to the SMC Skype Phone. Many users would be very glad.
I think it should be possible to cooperate with SMC so they could provide you the sourcecode or whatever you need to port it to the phone.
If anybody has new information or even a working work-around, please let me know [dfroe(at>gmx It would be a very nice christmas present if you could provide the new firmware or the devicescape-port recently.
regards,
David

By: John

John — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:50:21 +0000

Just wanted to let you know about Devicescape’s new hotspot login software that is currently in beta test. FON is one of our launch-time networks; in fact it is the one we use for our in-house testing and demonstrations.

You will be able to login to your favourite FON hotspots using our software on your Windows Mobile device, Nokia 770 web tablet, Linksys WIP300 VoIP phone or even your Windows XP laptop.

The software and service is free; please check it out at http://www.devicescape.com/, and let us know about your experiences as well as any other devices you’d like us to support.